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 Boundary Waters Quetico Forum Fishing Forum Troll or Jig? Reply
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| Author | Message Text |
| fishinfey8 |
04/26/2007 12:21AM Depends on the time of year. In the spring, i jig tipped w/ minnow below rapids or at any mouth of a river. Later in the year i bring out the bottom bouncers w/ lindy rigs tipped by a leech, and crawler harnesses. Silver and gold spinners work best for me, oh ya and i dont know if it helps but i blow up my crawler w/ air as well... |
| The Great Outdoors |
04/25/2007 11:14PM Arkansas Man, Yeah, the moving water is usually a good place to fish. If you use a jig or plain hook, with live bait, try behind any rocks that are visable with the eye or locator. Many types of fish (and minnows) congregate behind them, as they tend to attract food with the swirling action of the river current. |
| marsonite |
04/25/2007 07:09PM I have done both--troll cranks back over the spot and stopped and jigged. I don't usually bother with live bait while canoeing. I have actually had good luck tipping the jig with a little belly skin of the first walleye. No live bait needed. I like a little heavier jig--1/4 to 3/8 ounce because I think it is important to be in touch with the bottom. Depends on the wind and the water depth though. I like a fireball type jig. I don't think the actual type really matters that much (a lot of stuff is designed more to catch fisherman than fish, you know.) |
| BLGL10 |
04/25/2007 07:07PM To Matt,In 2001 June 2,our group was wind bound. I was bored out of my skull.Itold the group I would stay close to shore as I just had to do some paddling.As I was paddling I decided to let my shallow running rapala run just outside the tree tops that were submerged.From that day forward I caught our suppers of 14-18"walleyes.If I paddled slow I caught northerns or bass.If me and my buddy paddled at 3-4miles per hour than we caught walleye.Caught 16 walleye by myself of course only keeping the few we ate |
| woodpecker |
04/25/2007 07:04PM When we first ran into the walleyes on Gull lake we were kind of trolling with the drift w/a fairly good breeze... Once we hooked one...we switched from crankbaits to jig and leech and just nailed the "eyes" through out the next 2 days.....drifting back and forth along the shoreline in 9-10 ft of water. Troll for location and then jig.....worked for us... Woodpecker |
| LunkerToTheLivewell |
04/25/2007 06:38PM I never jig. I just troll with crankbaits. We have always had enough to eat. |
| moose plums |
04/25/2007 06:13PM Yes to the question. Both. We typically troll over the areas where we have found fish over and over again. I love vertical jigging too. Ive done both with great success. |
| Bromel |
04/25/2007 05:24PM Yes, moving water is always a good place to fish. We always stop and fish below rapids, even in the middle of a bright, sunny day. Smallies especially like the moving water and will sit in eddies waiting for food to float by. Shiny Mepps Aglia spinners work well for smallies in shallow, moving water like this. When I took my wife on her first trip in August a few years back, the fishing was really slow. I looked at a map and noticed a river nearby with rapids. I told my wife that we would paddle over there and I would catch her dinner. I stood on a rock next to a rapid and dropped a silver #1 Mepps into the current -- straight down from where I was standing --- and proceeded to pull several smallies out of the eddy. I was a hero to my wife that night as we proceeded to fry up a mess of smallies (thanks to moving water). |
| snakecharmer |
04/25/2007 04:08PM Absolutely - spillways, fishing above and below a rapids, slack areas behind structure on a river - all good! |
| Arkansas Man |
04/25/2007 02:29PM I guess I am just different being from the south and all... I do very little trolling, but I do some jigging, more fishing with a gitzit than jig. However, with that said I do troll in the BWCA when I am traveling from one spot to another, and I will jig or fish a gitzit out on a point or a ledge. I will throw a stick bait, or topwater when the opportunity arises, and I am not opposed to fishing a Mepps Black Fury #3 with a chartruese tip on the skirt. I would have to say that while I am not a true "northern style" fisherman I do catch several walleyes and have caught one very nice, but I look for moving water... and find the closest deep hole and throw a lindy rigged leech in it and hang on... I also catch a lot of big smallies that way, and hooked a 35 -40 inch northern last year doing that. I did not get to play him long as my sinker stuck on bottom and he is jumping out of the water 50 ft away from me. He eventually broke me off because of the sinker being stuck on bottom and I could not play him... On my very first trip to the BWCA, we went to Hudson Lake, east of Ely. Two guys from Arkansas and 7 from Minnesota on a church trip. I would not use a leech for the first day and a half... then from then on the fish I/we caught fed the group several dinners at nights and mornings for breakfast. The other guy with me finally caught on and started catching a few fish too. Some of the guys from Minnesota were dumbfounded that I was able to catch walleyes the way I did. I went with them and tried their way and did not catch any. They went with me and helped me net my first 5 lb walleye, and one of them finally caught a nice one too, but they said they had not thought of doing that. But I guess my question is... does anyone else target moving water and look for deep holes? Bruce |
| HowardSprague |
04/25/2007 02:13PM When the wind is light enough, I like to do sort of a combination by drifting with a jig. |
| jfish |
04/25/2007 01:06PM mattbrome, Sorry, I didn't mean "eliminate lakes" I meant to say you can eliminate 90% or more of the area of any specific lake. I'd start by looking for structure like drop-offs, reefs, sunken islands, weed edges, rockpiles, etc. There are lakes that are better than others for walleye though. I would post the lake you'll be near on your trip and ask what others think might be your best bets. |
| jfish |
04/25/2007 12:46PM Drifting Lindy rigs or spinners can work well too. One problem is that you have to spend a lot of time backing up and freeing your snags. Another thing that can be a factor is that if fish are nuetral or negative they're more likely to bite on a slower presentation. If your in deeper water or lakes that are stained, you can vericle jig. If done properly you'll get way fewer snags and feel the fish better too. I like Fuz-e-grubs, various types of twisters or just plain jig heads-all tipped with live bait of some type. The colors I have had the best luck with are chartruse and pink. If it's windy I use a drift sock to slow my drift down-it's criticle that you can feel the bottom through you fishing line (a heavier jig too-maybe 1/4oz-3/8oz). If the fish are concentrated in a fairly small area-like on a point- I'll use a slip bobber. The only time I'd use a crankbait for walleyes is when they're active-dawn, dusk or cloudy & windy days and in water thats's fairly shallow (10 feet or less). |
| mattbrome |
04/25/2007 12:39PM What do you jig with? How do you eliminate lakes? |
| moheep |
04/25/2007 12:36PM Matt, if you consistently want to catch bunches of eyes you need to lindy rig with leeches. You just won't catch a bunch of fish in the BW with cranks. For the last twenty years I have used a lindy rig with one spinner, one float and a 18 in snell. Different colors for different water clarity. Drift with the wind or current, when you find em throw out your marker buoy and keep drifting the area. It really is as simple as it gets. Make sure your leeches are lively and large. Great Outdoors can help ya with that. You can buy a couple of flexible leech locker/leech bags ( they are collapsible). Tie a rope on, put a rock in there and sink it off your campsite. They will stay as fresh as when you bought em at the bait store. Good luck |
| snakecharmer |
04/25/2007 12:32PM Troll to locate active fish, then refine your presentation. It could mean jigging, slip bobbering, casting crankbaits or just slowing down your trolling speed. As with Mr. Bates - I can count on one hand the number of times I've used jigs in the BWCA. We've enjoyed so much success with trolling/drifting spinner rigs over the years, jigging just hasn't been something we've tried. |
| jfish |
04/25/2007 12:29PM Jig. No question in my mind. The trick is knowing where to jig. You need to learn to read lake maps to locate promising areas. You can eliminate 90% or more of most lakes. |
| mattbrome |
04/25/2007 12:27PM Do you troll with cranks or spinners? Lindy rigs? I have heard that it is hard to troll with lindy rigs in the BWCA though... |
| marc bates |
04/25/2007 12:24PM I always troll back and forth over the same area. I will admit I have never tried jigging in the BWCA. |
| mattbrome |
04/25/2007 12:14PM So I have heard that the trick when fishing walleyes is to troll with crank baits to locate fish, then once you catch one, go back and fish over the same area. Seems to make sense. However, what is the best technique? Should you drop down some jigs (and if so, which ones?) or should you troll with some spinner rigs (again, which ones?), or should you continue to troll back and forth over the area with cranks? Thanks for all the tips. |
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