You are kidding right? 
ya, so don’t take it to hard, but i have read articles and shows where walleye guys have said trolling is nothing but luck, jigging on the other hand…
I know first hand that trolling plugs on Mille Lacs is no easy tactic, I’m still learning everytime I go out and have covered countless “unproductive miles” of water the last couple years. There is no “LUCK” involved when you target the fish, find the fish, present the right bait at the right depth, plus add a giant lake to top it off. 
I always thought it was easy, but as everyone that pulls plugs out deep will tell you it’s not. 
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I’m a bass guy, so i was wondering why we need a walleye forum. I mean come on, how hard is it to troll a dang crank. I have read articles and watched tv shows about how it is soooo easy to troll for walleye that idiots can do it. Just thought that u walleye guys should keep that in mind
If you’d like to be made to look abundantly stupid let’s you and I have a troll-off.
Go back to the bass forum. 
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I’m a bass guy, so i was wondering why we need a walleye forum. I mean come on, how hard is it to troll a dang crank. I have read articles and watched tv shows about how it is soooo easy to troll for walleye that idiots can do it. Just thought that u walleye guys should keep that in mind
If you’d like to be made to look abundantly stupid let’s you and I have a troll-off.
Go back to the bass forum.
James………….Settle down there big Fella!!!!He said he was kidding. I think you’ll have to stand in line if he wasn’t!
The “my species is better than your species” thing has grown tired.
True skill and understanding is to be able to catch them ALL better than the next guy.
I’m in line with my number…
I’m considered more of a “walleye guy,” but I enjoy chasing all species. However, I’ve been trolling a certain metro area lake for eyes lately and I can’t keep those damn bass off my line! So then I decide to go “bass fishing” because I know anyone and their brother can fish a weedline with plastics! Man those green fish are dumb and easy to catch. 
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The “my species is better than your species” thing has grown tired.
Oh, I don’t know, I don’t have any dental procedures tomorrow, maybe after Species we can argue politics……. If either specie is so easy to catch, come on and give me a report, I’m in a dry spell.
Zoom, I know you were trying to spark a debate and it looks like it worked, but you remember these guys(walleye) are kinda sensitive. . Plus these guys don’t mind pounding on a 14 yr. old.
Zoom, you best keep to “reading articles and watching TV shows” you’ll learn alot there. 
big g 
I haven’t caught a walleye, not even by accident in 4 years.. In fact… I spent 6 hours on 1 lake over 2 days & didn’t catch 1 bass. 
How’s it go ??
Me vs fish, Me vs myself, Me vs the other guy
In that order. Period. 
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I’m a bass guy, so i was wondering why we need a walleye forum. I mean come on, how hard is it to troll a dang crank. I have read articles and watched tv shows about how it is soooo easy to troll for walleye that idiots can do it. Just thought that u walleye guys should keep that in mind
What-ever!!!!
The kind of trolling I have been doing lately looks easy; but it isn’t. You get in to shallow you’re snagged. Out to deep no fish. Not enough line out you aren’t getting deep enough. Wrong color no fish. Wrong speed no fish. Do it perfect just ticking the rocks at the right speed with the right color you might catch a few.
dd
(Psst. Don’t tell the bass guys but i fish for all species occationally too)
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I’m a bass guy, so i was wondering why we need a walleye forum. I mean come on, how hard is it to troll a dang crank. I have read articles and watched tv shows about how it is soooo easy to troll for walleye that idiots can do it. Just thought that u walleye guys should keep that in mind
If you’d like to be made to look abundantly stupid let’s you and I have a troll-off.
Go back to the bass forum.
James;
I will give you credit. You are a troll master! I’d bet a lot of money on this wager! It would be quite humorous to see you roll in with about 50 walleyes to his 1 sauger!
Dad still talks at how you took him down to the back channel and we caught all those fish! Everyone else would fish for about 15 to 30 minutes and bail because “the fish weren’t biting”, yet we were catching them all day long!
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(Psst. Don’t tell the bass guys but i fish for all species occationally too)
Zoom… Please accept my apology for how short I was in response to your post. It was certainly uncalled for.
Sounds like all work and no play makes James a cranky boy!
Get out there and relax this weekend, buddy!
I heard someone talk once about spending a day fishing with Roland Martin. He mentioned that regardless of how big the fish he was excited about every one. My point is that it’s really not that one fish is better than another, or that one fisherman can outfish someone else. It seems that the first thing is to enjoy the sport. The second thing is to learn and be adaptive. That sharing good information is what its about. How a person uses this is up to them. In some situations I shine, but in most angling all I want to do is learn. The socond is to continue to be enthusiastic about the sport. This spring I spend a day on the river fishing below James. Man he had it dialed in. At the end of the day I watched his boat take picture after picture of geourgous big walleye. Ok, I was sort of pissed cause I didnt get a dang thing! But, as I watched the high fives and loud exclamations I did feel like I was part of something pretty cool and bigger then myself.
So if someone has a good pattern going its cause you learned and know how. From that point its about education and learning as well as sharing experiences. Enought of the competition stuff. I thing its time to get back to a calmer more intentional angling experience. That its not about being better or about one fish being easier to catch. Lets face it, any quality fish is a great experience and makes the whole thing a blast to be a apart of.
one of the thing that we also have to remember is the fact that we resort back to our old tendancies, meaning that we go back to the things that have put fish into the boat before in similar conditions. the one nice thing about this site, whether we fish for eyes or bass, we can learn from other fisherman/women that have put fish in the boat differently in the same situations. I prefer to fish bass, but, I also have a tendancy to go after them eyes. I can’t seem to put a string together on the river like some can, but however, I did finally go out and catch my first eye this year at the GTG on a rattle trap. I was looking for bass and have not found any of them on the river. I have learned alot from others on this site and continue to try and learn more, whether it is jiggin, trolling, or castin weed lines for bass.
shane
I spend most of my time fishing on the Mississippi River and can assure you trolling is not always the answer when it comes to catching Walleye. For example, my son spends most of his time casting along the banks of sloughs and on the wing dams. He feels it is more precise and when he and his friend showed up with a 12lb Wally a few years back I startaed to change my methods a bit. Beyond that we have several spots where you simply cannot troll because of log jams.
Anyway, there is a lot more to catching Walleye then trolling, especially on the river. Finally, I am a multi-species fisherman, and on balance I find it easier to catch bass then walleye.
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