Give dropping a jig line straight down into the thickest of weeds, and
keep it about five to ten foot deep. If you are not having
luck there, try jigging off rocky points or drop offs in
shoals. When it is windy, you can just let your boat drift
and jig over the hot zone.
At night, the big walleye come out of the deep water, and move to the
shoreline to feed. Just troll with the smaller lures I talked
about earlier. Just remember that the hotter it gets, the
deeper you will have to go to find those big trophy sized
walleye. If you are daylight fishing in the summer, you need
to find a deep spot where they are holding, and fish with jigs, but
finding them can be tough. Try the bottom, or out in the
opens, but try to find a thermal and get as deep into it as you can.
The big trophy Walleye are usually females and will hide in deep holes
during the day. You can try fishing deeper for them with jigs but you
cannot really cover a lot of ground and fishing deep with jigs is only
effective if you find a deep spot where the Walleyes are congregating.
To catch the big trophy Walleyes during the day, you have to fish deep
and right off bottom or out in open water but down deep in the thermal
layer, usually from fifteen to thirty-five feet or so down using Husky
Jerks or some other deep diving lure you like, in silvers and
browns. For best results, you really need a depth
finder.
Early in the ice fishing season, you will need to look from ten to
fifteen feet deep along the points and in the middle of the lakes on
the flats, moving more shallow with the deeper snowfalls, as well as
early or late in the day. If you are fishing in low light
conditions, fish with high visibility lures, and bounce them just a
bit, because the walleye do not see well in low light.
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