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I started to talk about jiggins spoons on another post, and realized I pretty much exclusively use jiggins spoons for walleyes on my jig stick. SO……… here is how the Daze teams dazzles the big eyes on spoons.
First off you have to locate fish!!! That IS the most crucial ingrediant to your success. I like to use the Vertiglow Lightning Spoons, and Go-Devils. I personally like to go light and will often fish 1/8 oz spoons even in 30+ f.o.w.
Cut your minnow in about 1/2. Hook the head of the minnow onto one of the razor hooks on the treble. Then cut up through the guts of the minnow. The extra scent and guts pumping through the water column definatley already turns the odds in your favor over many presentations. Then zero in on your electronics. Your electronics will tell you exactly what you need to do to be most effective with the fish on the particular day your fishing them. I most always play a cat and mouse game immediately when I detect a walleye on my electronics. How I do so is by immediately pulling the presentation up and away from the walleye. Not fast, but about as fast as something would float to the surface. If the fish responds to the escaping morsel of food I will then increase my get-a-way speed and see if the fish has been triggered by instict alone to devour the presentation. If the fish is closing the gap I continue moving the bait, but then slow to allow the fish to catch me. When I see the fish come to the presentation I will then zero in on the end of my rod for either slack line or a tap, or tension. Then I PUT THE HAMMER DOWN!!! I almost always approach each newbie to my electronics in this fashion.
IF………… The fish doesn’t hit the presentation then I will pound the spoon above the fish until the fish absolutely can’t resist it, or decides to bug out. Once again if the fish shows interest it is CAT AND MOUSE FOR ME. I’d rather not have fish sit and analyze an artificial presentation. If you already employ these techniques you know it is lights out, and if you don’t you WILL CATCH MORE FISH!!
Here in Border Country and especially on the Mighty Rainy I prefer glow patterns in Blue, green, or red. Day in and day out different colors will out produce another. A pocket full of these jigging spoons and a ziplock bag of minnows will be very efficient and very effective as you work your line of holes.
REMEMBER IF YOUR WITHOUT ELECTRONICS you will seldom rock the biggest baddest fish of rainy chasing suspended fish. For that matter it is safe to say you have overlooked the biggest fish whom often swim at a different depth on the water column. Kind of like the biggest bucks often utilize a secondary trail. Last year I landed 2 eyes that went 28 inches 2-5 feet under the ice in 32 f.o.w.!!! Trust me a big red blob just under the ice isn’t always monster pike, but it is a fish on a mission!! That mission no doubt is to EAT!! FEED THE BEAST!!!
See ya on the ice!!! 
