Favorite Walleye Plastic

[NodakBob]

I avoid white plastics/lures when the river is full of cottonwood cotton…but like em at other times.

 

[Davy Crockett]

I always fished live bait and experimented with plastics at the same time. I don't recall once where live bait didn't out catch plastics by the end of the day but plastics did catch a few fish.

 

[Davy Crockett]

Going to try a few listed here , what about scents, do any of those work ?

 

[xFishSlayerx]

Going to try a few listed here , what about scents, do any of those work ?

Never been a believer in that stuff but who knows.

 

[Rowdie]

I've done very good with gulp alive crawlers and half crawlers for slow death. Once in Mobridge I had my 4 and quit using live bait and switched to gulp, and out fished the other 2 on the boat to finish the limit. A couple years ago my buddies kid forgot the crawlers on the counter at baitshop. We were forced to use gulp and limited easily.

 

[LOV2HNT]

I've done very good with gulp alive crawlers and half crawlers for slow death. Once in Mobridge I had my 4 and quit using live bait and switched to gulp, and out fished the other 2 on the boat to finish the limit. A couple years ago my buddies kid forgot the crawlers on the counter at baitshop. We were forced to use gulp and limited easily.

When trolling BB's I'll usually have one rod with a live crawler and the other one with a gulp crawler. Some days the gulp does better than a live crawler, but it's usually pretty close to 50/50. Well worth having some in the boat.

 

[Rowdie]

When trolling BB's I'll usually have one rod with a live crawler and the other one with a gulp crawler. Some days the gulp does better than a live crawler, but it's usually pretty close to 50/50. Well worth having some in the boat.

Yes, always have some just in case you forget them or can't obtain them

 

[KDM]

This in 3 inch! If I can only have one.

 

[1lessdog]

Never been a believer in that stuff but who knows.

We were up in Canade fishing years ago and tried all kinds of scents. WD-40 out fished all the other scents hands down.

 

[bucksnbears]

I've cought lots of walleyes on a cheap yellow twister tails.

 

[Davy Crockett]

I've cought lots of walleyes on a cheap yellow twister tails.

I do remember catching some dandys with a yellow twister tail on one of those bucktail jigs that had dive wings. Like 1/2 oz and they would troll or drift nice on Sakakawea . Can't find them any more but that day my kicker quit so I was kicking the big motor in and out of gear probably from 4 mph to 1 in and out . Caught some nice fish but never tried it again, and it most likely wouldn't work again

 

[Davy Crockett]

Dumb luck has put some nice
fish in the livewell.

 

[Davy Crockett]

One time me and a buddy watched a storm too long before we headed in and the wind came up fast, I give er the onion towards the ramp against big waves with a Swedish pimple and a minnow bouncing on top of the water about 15 feet behind the boat and caught a 6 pound walleye. That might be the weirdest way I ever caught a walleye. Another time at a local lake the walleye bite was on and a few boats on the water but we couldn't get a bite , while trolling past a couple local neighbor hillbillies and were visiting one held up the stringer with 4 walleyes. I asked them what they caught em on an one said red and white daredevil . I thought they were pulling my leg but after talking to others at the ramp and afterwards, nobody but them had any luck. I think it was true.

 

[Allen]

I always fished live bait and experimented with plastics at the same time. I don't recall once where live bait didn't out catch plastics by the end of the day but plastics did catch a few fish.

There are days. For example, if the fish will hit an artificial crawler in a weedy environment, the plastic wins...every single time.

 

[Davy Crockett]

I sure like the durability of plastics . I dislike digging into the live bait before a sandwich.

 

[Allen]

I sure like the durability of plastics . I dislike digging into the live bait before a sandwich.

Yeah, that is a problem we all have, but Gulp is not better.