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Hey guys,

Have any of you had much luck trolling spoons for walleye? Guys out of Lake Erie seem to be beginning to use them a lot, and I've got a couple of questions:

1) What size/type/brand to use specifically for Walleye.
2) What set-up to use? (P.Boards and snap-weights???)
3) Wouldn't it be a great way to create flash/visibility for nightfishing?

Any suggestions GREATLY appreciated.

Bluefin

Hey Bluefin, I've caught a few on spoons and caught a nice one in Picton harbour last fall while night fishing. Believe it or not the best one I have found is the 49 cent, yellow with red diamonds. The biggest one I can get. The bigger the lewer the bigger the fish!!

But my favourite spoon to play with is Little Cleo. She's a babe. And I"ve caught a few on her too.

You can catch a walleye on just about anything if you're lucky enough to put the bait in front of its nose.

Spoons work and work very well but to improve the percentage of catch you should narrow your usage down to the following spec.

Size - 2 1/2 - 3"

Weight - light or flutter

Color - any of the popular colors suited to that body of water ( I favor perch patterns )

I have a buddy who has taken walleye baits to another level, you can check out his stuff on my group site

http://groups.msn.com/McQonFishing/_whatsnew.msnw

Just scroll down to the Coot's Lures logo and give it a click. His inovations are great.

Spoons work great for walleye on any lake that they like to feed on suspended bait fish.

I make all of my own walleye spoons. The reason I do up my own spoons is to get the colour patterns, action and size I like on different lakes. I also like to use them as an attractor 3 feet in front of spinners or small cranks when trolling open water.

I run spoons with dipsey-divers, snap-weights and or keel weights depending on how much vertical swim the walleye want. For clear water, high running walleye or multi-rod situations I run them behind in-line boards.

Hopes this helps answer some spoon questions...

-Sheldon

I've done well with the Acme Little Cleo in FireTiger pattern on walleye.

I thought the spoons were the LAST secret weapon

I jig wiith Williams Wablers in nu-wrinkle in winter but never tried in summer. I am a troller but have to many lures as it is and I only use the same 5. Need to force myself to try them in summer. I always tip with a minnow head.

Cheers,

Scott

Superdad wrote:I thought the spoons were the LAST secret weapon

Superdad...
Only on Quinte in the fall

-Sheldon

I've caught lots of walleye on williams wobblers and a few different ones from Lucky Strike. Size all depends on the size of fish you are targeting and colours either silver or gold and red combos work for me.

Good Luck

I remember years ago..many years ago back up in Hay Bay, Canadians were trolling mepps type spinners, americans were trying to drift and jig, I started casting a little cleo, silver with blue stripe with a piece of night crawler on it, I was the only one catching fish. And then there were the old dare devil spoons in the rivers. Spoons a great tool at times. And then there is the current three way swivel when trolling with deep divers, and then a drop line with a spoon on it...supposed to work great

When trolling Erie for Bows, I usually catch a few walleye on the dipseys or sliders with spoons.
Northern King 28's, or Michigan Stingers do well, nailed a few on Nasty Boys in Purple/Black last year. Tip the treble with a worm to increase your %age.

CD

Caseys Dream wrote:Michigan Stingers do well

Michigan Stinger make great walleye spoons...just a bit hard to find near Ottawa.

-et

There are many great walleye baits that are impossible or hard to find in our area. The retailers who will start to pay attention to this booming market will have a gold mine.

Unfortunately Ontario product distribution is slanted too heavily towards the bass fisherman. Sure there are some cranks, harnesses and adaptable plastics on dealer walls but what is needed is more of a Cabelas approach - diversification!!!

In Canada the popular sports fisheries are roughly in this order

1. trout

2. panfish

3. walleye

4. pike

5. bass

6. Muskie

Moving across the country Quebec dealers are best poised in offering more trout and walleye tackle, Ontario is programmed for bass and the Prairies are walleye heaven.

Why do you think Cabelas is opening their first store in the Montreal area?

I can think of many companies who don't have any significant market position in our general area; eg - Lindy, Bait Rigs, Petersons, Northland, Michigan Stingers, Pa's Lures and dozens of others - all great companies with many innovations that we don't see locally - again why is Cabela's catalogue sales so huge in Canada - especially Ontario & Quebec.

Thanks for the hints boys. I just picked up 5 Stinger Scorpion spoons in a variety of colours off of e-bay for $16 US, including shipping. Hope they work as well as I think they will!

Cannot wait for the open water season!
Thanks again,
Bluefin

Wow great info! I use the stingers, the small rac spoons and a brand called Arc-en-ciel here for rainbows and ouananiche and they are great on the rigger or behind a dipsy. Never thought of using them for walleye.

The reservoir I fish has tons of smelt and the walleye tend to suspend as the water warms up and feed on the smelt. How do you guys get the spoons down to them.

DH