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Old School Walleye Fishing Family Secrets

The walleye fishing jig is always thought of first when we discuss artificial baits that work well to catch walleyes. There are multiple ways to tip walleye jigs with live bait. We will talk about some of the best live baits to use in combination with walleye jigs in our article today. Walleye jigs are so universal because they can be fished so many different ways. You can cast your walleye jigs  tipped with live bait or without from a anchored or drifting boat. You can jig vertically while drifting with the wind or current, or troll very slowly, bouncing your walleye jig tipped with live bait off the bottom.

You can tip a jig with a live walleye minnow which works great in the early spring or fall months by pushing the hook through the lips starting at the bottom lip and push the hook up through the top lip so the barb of the hook is pointing towards you. If you want to keep your walleye minnows on the hook longer hook them through the eye socket. The most secure way to hook your walleye minnows is is to push the hook of a plain jig with no plastics, through the mouth and up through back with the barb pointing towards you when you are finished. Unfortunately this normally kills the minnow but if you are jigging for walleye you will be replacing your live bait on a regular basis anyway.

Another excellent way to use a walleye jig is by hooking a ribbon leach as your live bait presentation. Make sure you use a plain walleye jig with no plastic when you hook the ribbon leach. The best way to hook a ribbon leech  is to push the barb of your walleye hook through the sucker end of the leech so the barb id pointing upward when finished.

The old reliable nightcrawler is probably the most popular, and widely used live bait used on a plain walleye jig. There a multiple ways to hook a nightcrawler and they all work well. You can hook them through the head of the night crawler about one half of an inch down. Make sure the tip of the barb is pointing upward when you are done. You can hook night crawlers on a walleye jig right through the middle. Make sure you use at least two crawlers when you use this method.

Another live bait that is used in combination with a walleye jig is a waterdog, which is a salamander larva. You want to hook waterdogs through the lips with the hook on the walleye jig, then you want to add a stringer hook set with a treble hook to your jig and push one of the hooks all the way through the tail of the water dog leaving the other two hooks exposed

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Old School Walleye Fishing Family Secrets

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Old School Walleye Fishing Family Secrets

Fishing with nightcrawlers for fish species such as walleye, bass and trout is quite common. The trouble is you need lots and lots of nightcrawlers or worms to fish for these species. If you are a avid walleye fisherman you know what i mean. You are constantly re-baiting your hook to make your live bait presentation enticing, and it is very easy to use dozens of nightcrawlers in one fishing outing. To limit or eliminate your cost of live bait it makes good sense to build a worm farm and raise your own night crawlers and worms. You will be amazed how simple this actually is.

To build a worm farm you need to understand a few basic principles of worms and nightcrawlers. Worms are what is called a hermaphrodites. Basically what this means is that both the female and male worm or nightcrawler have sex organs so therefore they are both breeders. You still need to have two worms worms to breed but since they are both breeders it doesn’t mater if you have male or female worms, just that you have two nightcrawlers. Catching both is very simple to do, But before we get there there is some preparation you need to do. and that is constructing your worm box and filling it with the right kind of soil.

You can either construct a worm box that you can locate outside of the ground say in your basement or garage or you can construct one that fits in the ground. Night crawlers and other worms feed by eating their way through the ground so you want the soil you put in your worm box to be fertile and full of nutrients. If you have a compost pile this type of soil is perfect. dead or rotting vegetation in the soil is perfect for nightcrawlers and other worms to feed on. Or you can go to a local garden soil and purchase at least 25 lbs of fertile soil to start out with. In order for your worms to reproduce consistently you need to keep your soil moist and full of nutrients at all times. left over table scraps  ground up and sprinkled over the the surface of your worm box works great for feeding nightcrawlers.

To construct a worm box get yourself some 1 x 12″ white or yellow pine. you want your box to be at least 24 inches deep so you will have (2) 12 ” wide boards stacked together on for sides. the length and width of your box should be at least 3ft by 3ft. So you finished worm farm box would be 24″ deep x 36″ deep x 36″ long. Once you have your box completed line the inside with plastic sheeting 1/8″ thick if possible. attach to the bottom and all insides of you box with adhesive or a staple gun. next if you have some ground up table scraps and newspaper mixed all together sprinkle it evenly in the bottom. next fill your box with your fertile soil to within 2 ” from the top of the box. Then mix the soil and sprinkling all together. Know you are ready to fill your box with crawlers for a box this size you need to start off with at least 6 dozen nice fat nightcrawlers.

Now you are ready to start catching your night crawlers. Wait for a rainy night and get your flashlights together and head out to the lawn after dark. Make sure you do not shine your flashlight directly on the crawlers. What you want to is sneak up so you can get your hand behind them then put your hand over them and squeeze gently this will make it easier to pull the nightcarwlers out of the whole. One thing you want to look for is two night crawlers that are all slimy and right next to each other all stretched out. these are breeding crawlers and pick up as many of these as you can find because that way you will have baby nightcrawlers in your box with 2 to three weeks.

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Old School Walleye Fishing Family Secrets

In our article today we are going to talk about fishing with nightcrawlers for walleyes or as the Canadians call them pickerel, and sauger. The best time to fish with nightcralwers for walleye or pickerel, and sauger is done in late spring or in the summertime. There are just 100′s of different ways to fish the common or European nightcrawler, or the African nightcrawler for walleyes or pickerel and sauger such as using a spinning rig multiple hook nightcrawler harness,trolling plugs with the treble hooks tipped with nightcrawlers,inline weight forward spinner baits tipped with European night crawlers, Tipping walleye jigs 1/16ounce to 1/2ounce with a piece of a night crawler,using a slip sinker fishing rig with a inflated nightcrawler,and just using a simple split shot fishing rig with a nightcrawler.

1. Spinner fishing rigs for walleye and sauger with multiple hooks.

Using a spinner rig baited with nightcrawlers is a very common practice when you are trolling or drift fishing for walleye. This is a very common practice for Lake Erie walleye. When you bait the spinner make sure you use more then one common night crawler. make sure you leave some slack in your crawlers between the first and second hook. To make your bait more attractive to unsuspecting walleye or pickerel,and sauger you can inflate them. If you do this make sure you insert the blow needle at the crown of the crawler only. anywhere Else and you will distort the figure of the nightcrawler and make it look unnatural.

2. Trolling plugs for walleye tipped with nightcrawlers.

When the fishing gets really slow and you need an extra edge to fish you artificial baits for sauger and walleye, tip all the treble hooks with multiple night crawlers. Don’t get skimpy with your bait!

3. Inline weight forward spinner baits for sauger and walleye tipped with nightcrawlers.

Inline weight forward spinner baits work great for casting. Tip all the hooks with multiple cralwers don’t skimp you need at least 2 or three night crawlers attached for each cast. This method of walleye fishing is very common over reefs, and is also commonly used for fishing lake erie at the most popular reefs like Niagara reef,mouse island reef,or round reef. To cast your spinner bait cast out and count the seconds it takes to get to the bottom. on your next cast let the spinner sink 2 seconds less then start reeling up. keep count each cast. When you start catching walleye make note. this is your cast count.

3. slip sinker rig for sauger and walleye tipped with nightcrawlers.

One of the most universal fishing rigs made is the slip sinker rig. This is a great way to fish for walleye when they are near the bottom, and always a excellent way to fish for sauger because they stay on the bottom. Make sure you tip the hook of your hook with at least 2 or three night crawlers and inflate them. There are a few variations you can use for this rig and they include using bait walker sinkers,floater hooks, and a dropper with a drift sinker.

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