Successful Walleye Bait from Rapala?

[walleyeking]

I will have to mention that to my friend, and give it a shot, when the season opens, which is in spring time for me. (credit river, in Canada)



thats a video of someone landing a rainbow trout



here is another one




both from the same river..

[shadrap712]

With the clear water (I'm assuming) in your lake more natural color rapala lures seem to be better (white belly). I have had very good luck with any of the baits listed in this thread. I would start with down deep husky jerk or minnow rap on the edges of the deeper shoals. Look for fish that are suspended, then put your bait 1 - 10 feet above them depending on how clear and wave chop. Closer to them on calmer days. I would also get a precision trolling book (trolling bible). This will help you find how deep your lures are running with how much line you have out. A round bait caster will let you know amount of line (measure 1 pass of the level wind then you can multiple it to get how much line is out). To slow your boat down to troll you can put 2 drift socks off the front (one on each side). You will have to play with the size of the drift socks to make it the best for you. On the shallow side I would use #9 original floating or shallow shad raps #5 or 7 and go right over the outside edge to the to of the cabbage beads and you can pull them out of the weeds. Casting a tail dancer #5, 7, or 9 (depending on weed depth) right trough the outside edge. Use fireline for this as it will help cut the weeds. If you feel weeds just rip. Hope this helps get you started.

[walleyeking]

thank you shadrap, quite the detailed explanation! , ya I desperately want a walleye, because of its tasty meat

I've caught pretty much all the other major game fish except these darn walleye. (pike, musky, bass etc etc)

surprisingly, I haven't had much luck with the original floater (and that was what rapala started on! haha)



thank you shadrap,

[shadrap712]

This may also help with a couple of tips.


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[gdog]

I like to use jsr5's in fire tiger, shad , perch or if you can find one silver baby bass(these are discontinued but work awesome.
As far as for trolling, i like 8 to 12 feet of water, and bouncing it off of the hard bottom, will work off a sandy bottom, but hard bottom seems to work best, and trolling between 2 and 4 mph depending on how hard or soft the bite is.

Hope this helps

[bacon]

Jan 30, 2010 0:14:02 GMT -4 gdog said:

I like to use jsr5's in fire tiger, shad , perch or if you can find one silver baby bass(these are discontinued but work awesome.
As far as for trolling, i like 8 to 12 feet of water, and bouncing it off of the hard bottom, will work off a sandy bottom, but hard bottom seems to work best, and trolling between 2 and 4 mph depending on how hard or soft the bite is.

Hope this helps

i know of at least some JSR-4 SBB still on a shelf in a WI bait shop, didnt notice then in any other size. i knew i should have snagged them up when i was there, but they were getting dusty, so i doubt they will run off anytime soon either. this is also one of my favorite colors for trout.
bacon

[muskiehunter]

Jan 30, 2010 1:17:29 GMT -4 bacon said:

Jan 30, 2010 0:14:02 GMT -4 gdog said:

I like to use jsr5's in fire tiger, shad , perch or if you can find one silver baby bass(these are discontinued but work awesome.
As far as for trolling, i like 8 to 12 feet of water, and bouncing it off of the hard bottom, will work off a sandy bottom, but hard bottom seems to work best, and trolling between 2 and 4 mph depending on how hard or soft the bite is.

Hope this helps

i know of at least some JSR-4 SBB still on a shelf in a WI bait shop, didnt notice then in any other size. i knew i should have snagged them up when i was there, but they were getting dusty, so i doubt they will run off anytime soon either. this is also one of my favorite colors for trout.
bacon

Jeff if you go back to that shop and they still have them could you pick 1 up for me.

[kelloggz1]

fishing from the pier.. i usually use hj12-14 my go to color is the blue/silver.. clown... glass minnow.. tenn shad.. durin the spring cast out with a split shot if i want it to go a lil deeper.. you just got to find where the fish is.. sometime they're high.. sometime they're deep...

[sfw1960]

The minnow rap is a great walleye bait, I whacked a 10Lb hen a few weeks ago using one.

[shadrap712]

Walleyes love the weeds cabbage and coon tail. A bullet sinker and 2 - 3' lead back to a #6 octopus hook. Run the hook one time down through the tip of the crawler and then blow it up so it floats. Drag this with your trolling motor .7 to 1.4 MPH. As for you trolling to fast that is not the case as walleyes in the summer will hit crank baits up to 5 MPH. A way to slow your boat down while running the main out board is to use 2 drift socks tied off of the front cleats (1 per side). This will let you control your speed better. Here are some lures that I use:
Spring
#9-13 original floating
#5, 7 shallow shad raps
#6-14 husky jerks

Summer
down deep fat raps
jointed shad raps
rs shad raps
rebel wee craws

Fall
#18 original floating
#10-12 down deep husky jerk
#12-14 husky jerks
700-800 reef runners

I like lures that have a white belly or that are silver plated.
Just remember walleyes will be where the bait is. If it is up in 1' of water they will be up there sometime that day to feed. I have also found walleyes moving back up to the shallows around noon for a small feeding time.

[hot0n0tot]

For walleye i tend to use stick baits for in sizes 11 and 13 and 18 depending on the time of the year.

Keenan

[keesvanderlaak]

Going for clowns for walleye arent ya Keenan?

[90collector]

This one sounds like it doesn't work but I was surprised when my cousin tried it. A white rattlin' rapala in a shallow bay (rocky/sandy bottom) then you cast it out and jerk it like an xrap when you retrieve it. My cousin was catching a walleye every other cast on it, and I was sitting there amazed cus my jig tipped with a minnow was not catching a thing.

[riverrat]

Original Floaters, Shad Rap's, Husky Jerks, Rat Tail Dancer's.....caught walleye on all of them, both in Lake Erie and the Detroit RIver.

[jaketomberlin]

I'm sure you've already got enough lures to try, but I feel like I should mention that the DRFR-5 is an excellent bait for clear water Walleye/Smallmouth. I guess I've probably caught 15 Walleye and a few smallmouth the last 2 times I went fishing on a DRFR-5 Orange crawdad.

I fish a deep clear lake with lots of huge flats and humps. There are only a few spots where you know exactly where to throw, most of the time the walleye are just spread out across the huge flats and the DRFR 5 is perfect for finding those fish. I just make a long cast and let the bait do it's thing.... when a smally or wally sees that lttle fat rap digging around on the bottom they cant stand it. Good Luck with everything....

[fireman1979]

For me the Shadrap and the deep X-rap works very well for walleye. And for some reason I've been catching a lot on the pink X-rap deep...

[Tommmmy]

Jigs, jigs, and more jigs. Jig and minnow in the spring. Jig and crawler in summer. Also leech under slip bobber next to weedlines and on top of lake humps.

Ripshad lures in a wide array of colors. Reef Runners as well. There is a reason all the Lake Erie stores carry them almost exclusively. They work.

HJ 10 will work wonders in late fall. Wally divers in the rivers work great. Orange and gold.

Trolling shad raps and JSR will take a great many walleye.

[35wailin]

I've caught them on floating raps, shad raps, tail dancers, husky jerks as well as storm hot n tots and storm deep junior thunder sticks. My two best walleyes came from the same small lake, about 100 yards and one year apart. Both on gold/black husky jerks in 6-8 feet of water.

[stihlhead]

For Lake Erie my all time most producing Rapala is TDD-11 blue flash.    

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[xtremistx]

Mar 10, 2011 1:35:20 GMT -4 hot0n0tot said:

For walleye i tend to use stick baits for in sizes 11 and 13 and 18 depending on the time of the year.

Keenan

F18 the 7" silver black magic, full wire through stick, is my most go to bait 80% of the time for me. Tough enough for the biggest Muskie and pike, and can be slow trolled, twitched for giant walleye, fast trolled for Muskie, surface popped for bass and pike/Muskie. If I had only one type of lure to grab, to fish with only, it would be the original F18!