Lighter weights like 1/4 or 5/16 ounce allow the ringworm to “slide” back, which is another great retrieve method. Make a pitch toward shore and slowly drag it back to the boat. Besides the plastic, the right jig head is key to matching the fish’s mood for the day.Ī heavier 3/8-ounce B-Fish-N H20 jig will keep the jig tight on the bottom where these larger fish lay belly-to-bottom. Big bright walleye plastics, like B-Fish-N Tackle’s 3.2-inch Pulse-R and 4-inch Moxi Ringworms, elicit hard strikes from walleyes that would barely bite your minnow. While many anglers employ the traditional jig-n minnow, trophy hunters Luke Haugland and Bob Gillispie have more faith in plastics, specifically when targeting larger fish. If you have the upgraded link feature, when you hit the anchor lock button it will mark a GPS point on your Humminbird unit so that you can return to that hot spot quickly and easily.Ĭoldwater walleyes equal coldwater plastics. And with the anchor lock feature you can lock and hold in a spot, just like dropping the anchor. With the autopilot you can head in a course and stay on in, regardless of changes in wind or current. With the “constant” feature, you can adjust the proper speed and hold it constant. (This can be made easier with the introduction of Minn Kota’s Terrova i-Pilot trolling motor, and others.) Water level and current speed dictates whether you should pull slowly upstream or slip downstream. While you don’t need a large boat to fish this river, a good GPS unit and a powerful trolling motor are key. If you are after eating-size fish as well as quantity, head to the deeper breaks and use heavier jigs. You may not catch a ton, but they will be big ones. Finding current breaks in this system around the slow tapering shores is the key to bigger fish, which are spread out here. This is shallow-water river action at its best. From the third week in March until the end of April, the walleyes are in pre-spawn/spawn and put on the feed bag in the area between Baudette, Minn. The Rainy River, which feeds Lake of the Woods bordering Minnesota and Ontario, is home to some of the best walleye fishing on the planet.
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