07-11-2019, 02:25 PM
FreakyFisherman - about 10 years ago I too had the 30" goal (10# Club) and worked pretty hard to try and attain it but never did - caught many in the mid-20+" range and released all over the 23" unless they were hooked too bad.
Best day I had was mid morning trolling cranks with 2 oz. snap-on weights and instead of trolling in 'S' turns or straight lines I tried 'U' turns into the shore line - as soon as I hit 12' fow I would do the 'U' turn and head back toward deeper water - the inside rod was usually the hot one.
After hooking and releasing 4 25" plus walleye and feeling happy with this new method a pretty funny thing happened. There were these two guys in float tubes that were right next to where I was fishing and you could hear them talking -- One guy says - "That's get out of hear - I'm catching nothing - I wonder what the fish are feeding on ? " Right then he catches a 4" perch and says I can't keep this dang things off. We I'll let you guess what color our cranks were.
Good luck to you and your quest - please take a picture of the trophy and post it !
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Best day I had was mid morning trolling cranks with 2 oz. snap-on weights and instead of trolling in 'S' turns or straight lines I tried 'U' turns into the shore line - as soon as I hit 12' fow I would do the 'U' turn and head back toward deeper water - the inside rod was usually the hot one.
After hooking and releasing 4 25" plus walleye and feeling happy with this new method a pretty funny thing happened. There were these two guys in float tubes that were right next to where I was fishing and you could hear them talking -- One guy says - "That's get out of hear - I'm catching nothing - I wonder what the fish are feeding on ? " Right then he catches a 4" perch and says I can't keep this dang things off. We I'll let you guess what color our cranks were.
Good luck to you and your quest - please take a picture of the trophy and post it !
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