Has anyone tried Gulp Alive for walleye or northern??? Just wanted to know. I was on a lake and the gulp was out fishing real minnows at a rate of 10-1. This was of course for crappies, But we were dead sticking on some rods as well as jigging some of them. So if crappies will hit dead sticking gulp, will walleye and northern hit them also?????
I have never tried it for dead sticking but have had great luck with it on jigs and lindy rigs in the summer. In the winter I have had luck cutting it in small chunks and placed them on my jigging spoon treble hooks.
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In the winter I have had luck cutting it in small chunks and placed them on my jigging spoon treble hooks.
They also make gulp alive minnow heads that I have been using this winter. It’s nice for the after work runs, no frozen minnows in truck, just a little container of heads in my rod case. They also hold up pretty well, usually two or three walleyes per bait. Just watch the caps, they tend to leak in your pocket. Have not tried them on a dead stick, just on raps and spoons.
I have used it with good results. 3 inch minnows seem to work the best for multiple species
I’ve used the Gulp Alive open water jigging for walleye with some limited success and some for ice fishing but just for panfish. The one thing I seem to have noticed is that I can’t get as good of a bite on the colored stuff like I can on the more natural colors and white products. I have the little pink grubs with the tail and some pink minnow heads but just have not gotten the same reaction on them as I have on the 1″ watermelon shad minnows and other natural baits. Maybe just dumb luck… 
I use the gulp alive minnow heads all the time when tipping my slender spoons and other jigs for walleye. I have also tipped them with the 1″ minnows too with just as good of luck, most times the gulp will out produce an actual minnow head, but once in a great while the actual minnow head will out produce, I don’t know why or when, but it does.
Hope this helps,
Tanner Wildes
Gulp is awesome. I’ve had times drifting 2 identical rigs, one with a minnow and the other with Gulp, and the Gulp caught more and bigger walleyes. I was using the 4″ Shad vs. a large minnow. The gulp stays on longer and doesn’t die or need much attention at all. THere have been a few times that the eyes wanted live bait only, but those times were few.
Blugill fishing with the little ones – I cut up pieces of a Gulp Leech and hung under a bobber and the kids pulled in gills all day long on about $1.00 worth of bait.
The ONLY problem is resealing the container once you open it. It seals fine, you just have to make sure you get it all the way tight.
My $.02
I’ve used gulp alive minnows all winter and they work like magic 
Would it be cheaper to buy the gulp minnows and cut them up rather than buying the gulp minnow heads? It just seems strange to me to buy a fake minnow head. 
i use the 3 inch gulp minnows tipped with a white and pink jighead and hammer the walleyes with them on the mississippi bouncing it slowly through the rock piles
Seems to catch larger fish too
I have fished 4 or 5 times with them this winter with no luck at all. tried the heads, maggots and 1 inch minnows the perch and eyes on camera looked at it and said yeah right on winnie. but then again could have just been the day looking forward to summer with them for the kids though.
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Would it be cheaper to buy the gulp minnows and cut them up rather than buying the gulp minnow heads?
I think you would get more for your money by doing that. I bought the small container of heads just to try them out. When I run out I’ll buy the minnows, dice ’em up, and put them in the small container
I think I’ll try some on a tip-up. I’ll let you know what happens.
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