top walleye lures

i was wondering what everyone has been catching walleye on this year. thanks

I’ve been catching them on a vmc rattle spoon in a glow color, rapala rippin’ raps, and slender spoons.

If I could only have one jig for the rest of my life it’d be a Red Buckshot.

PK spoons, PK predator spoons, and Rattlin’ Flyers have been very good to me for a while now.

I’ve been having good luck with a new lures this year, and it’s quickly becoming a favorite: the Wally Talker has been excellent.

All the fancy packaging, marketing, etc aside (remember, most lures are designed to catch fisherman, not fish), I’ve caught the most and biggest walleyes in my lifetime on a hook and minnow under a deadstick. That’s not something Rapala, Lindy, Clam, etc, want you to believe (every commercial: guaranteed to catch more fish, revolutionary, drive fish crazy, etc etc).

At the end of the day, if you’re catching a fish on lure X, you’ll probably catch it on Y also. People often find patterns where there aren’t any (I’ve been told by a very good statistician that fisherman are his worst nightmare when it comes to finding patterns in data that don’t really exist, and confirmation biases). Walleyes, while given a lot of credit for being elusive, are not critical thinkers, filtering through lures under ice until it finds one that’s just right. Size and presentation techniques are really what matters. They’re certainly not picking out tumbler spoons, for example, and passing on slender spoons, for example. If you’re coming to that conclusion, there is some other factor you’re not considering (size, rattle, color, timing, the structure you’re fishing).

How many times has everyone been fishing, and after the first fish caught, it’s: “what are you using, what color, etc” and it’s a mad dash for everyone to tie one on. 95% of the time, the corner of house that guys fishing is on better break/structure feature, or, if everyone would hold out for a minute, they’d discover that they’ll probably bite what they had on originally also (assuming similar size, technique, depth, etc). Meanwhile, everyone is led to believe, they’re biting on pink forage minnows best, or whatever, even though that pattern doesn’t actually exist. They’d bite just the same on a perch colored frostee spoon for example (similar profile, size, action), but didn’t have the chance.

VMC Tingler spoon on the jigging rod and a Glow Demon on the dead stick

I catch 100% of my walleyes on a hook. Now what is on the other end of the hook changes. Sometimes it is a buckshot or plain hook or flutter spoon or …

Red Buckshot go to lure for almost every lake I have fished but the jigging rap perch color is very close 2nd.

Swedish Pimple, Rippen Raps and Jigging Raps.

Pk spoons and Swedish pimple

Vmc Tumblr and slab rap

Glow goldfish VMC Tumbler spoon for me.

Slender spoons and vmc tingler spoons in various sizes and colors. Especially glow and uv.

Rippin raps clackin raps buckshots and the good ole hook and minner

This year for me the majority have come off slab rap. Buckshots are always go to as well.

Tuma wrote:

I catch 100% of my <strong class=”ido-tag-strong”>walleyes on a hook. Now what is on the other end of the hook changes. Sometimes it is a buckshot or plain hook or flutter spoon or …

Ive been doing this for the bast few years. Plain/ bare hook with minnow tail/head/ full, depending on the lake.