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January 7, 2010 by admin
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There is no other artificial bait that works better to catch walleye then the walleye fishing jig. 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 most common and widely used live bait fished on a plain walleye jig is the nightcrawler. 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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December 11, 2009 by admin
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One of the best live baits to fish for walleye in late spring and summer, and one of the easiest baits to get are nightcrawlers.Actually there are three species of the nightcralwer and they are the common night crawler, the European night crawler, and the African nightcrawler.
There are a few different ways to fish with nightcrawlers for walleye. First you need to select lively crawlers that are about 4 to 8 inches in length. Always gob at least two or three onto the hook. The best way to hook them is through the head. When walleyes see two or three night crawlers dangling from a hook it is hard to resist. Push a hook into the tip of the head and out about 1/4 to 3/8 of an inch back from the tip. You can also use a worm blower to inflate your nightcrawlers. This will make the worm float off of the bottom to the walleyes can see it better. You need to inflate your worm correctly or it will look un-natural. Insert the needle just behind the collar and squeeze a small bubble of air into the head.
Nightcrawler fishing rigs:
- Hook night crawlers onto a two or three hook worm harness. MAKE SURE when you are hooking the worms that you leave some slack between the hooks. When you are using worm harnesses always use at least two to three nightcrawlers. Make sure your harnesses have at least a number 8 hook, but no larger then a number 2.
- Use a slip sinker rig with a number 8 to number 2 plain or floater hook. Inflate your worms to make them more appealing to the walleye.
- Use a slip bobber rig with plain or short shanked number 8 through number 2 hooks, or 1/16th ounce walleye jig.
- Use a split shot rig with a number 8 through number 2 hook. Hook at leaste 3 nightcrawlers through the head, inflate if you want.
- Use a weight forward spinner or spinner tipped with two or three night crawlers.
- Use a bottom walking rig with two or three number 8 through number 2 hook worm harnesses. use at least two crawlers , inflate if you want.
- Use a trolling plug tipped with at least two or three nightcrawlers.
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November 22, 2009 by admin
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If you plan on fishing for walleyes using nightcrawlers as live bait there are a number of walleye fishing rigs you can use. We will concentrate on how to use, and what spinner baits tipped with nightcrawlers to use in this article. If you are fishing walleye waters that are stained or muddy using a spinner bait tipped with at least 2 nightcrawlers at all times is a very good choice.
Some of the most common spinner baits used for walleye fishing are listed below. Weight forward spinners are used for easy casting. When using this spinner bait, tip all hooks on this spinner with at least 2 nightcrawlers. Other spinners that work great for walleye are a mono line spinner with blades. These spinners are great for trolling over weed beds. You can get them in single or double hook harnesses. Make sure that you use at least 2 nightcrawlers with these spinners. Also when you use a multiple hook harness make sure when you hook your crawler, that you leave some slack in the night crawlers between hook 1 and two. Sliding spring spinners are great if you need to change hooks quickly. June bug spinners are a single hook spinner and hooked with two nightcrawlers makes a excellent walleye bait. Floater spinner multiple hook nightcrawler harnesses are great when drifting over shallow weeds. Extended arm spinners keep the hook away from brush when you are fishing thick brush areas and are great to use in flooded overflow areas.
The most fasinating aspect of the spinner bait that draws the attention of all game fish is the vibraction factor. For example if you are fishing spinners tipped with nightcrawlers in stained or muddy water with poor visibility you want to have spinners that give of allot of vibration. If you are fishing in clear water its just the opposite walleye prefer spinners with much less vibration. The amount of vibration depends on the style and size of the blade you are using. For example if you were fishing clear water use small willowleaf blade because they give off much less vibration then say a large Colorado blade. Not all blades are created equal. A Colorado blade has a 50deg pitch which gives off the most vibration. The next spinner blade is a Indiana blade that has a 40 degree pitch and gives off the second most vibration. The willowleaf blade has a 25 deg pitch and gives off the next least vibration and is the best choice for clear water.
If you make a spinner designed to be tipped with a nightcrawler use a colorado blade if you plan on fishing at night or in low visibility waters because these blades create a better vibration. Walleyes have what is called a lateral line sense that can detect vibrations. In the late spring fish spinners with Colorado blades at a slow speed baited with at least 2 nightcrawlers.
In the summer use a willow leaf blade tipped with at least 2 nightcrawlers. To fish for walleyes using spinner baits troll or drift along breaklines. You can also drift and troll nightcrawlers over weed tops. The spinner blade works as a weed guard when trolling or drifting over weed beds tipped with nightcrawlers.
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October 31, 2009 by admin
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For anyone leaning about fishing, baiting a hook is a key part of that knowledge. For experienced fisherman there is a constant trial and error process that occurs, and what works is documented for future fishing trips. Seeking new bait fishing methods and techniques to improve your fish catch is very important. The real challenge to fishing with bait is keeping your baits looking natural to the area you are fishing. the closer you can match your bait fishing presentation to the natural food source of the fish you are targeting the more successful you will be.
We all love fishing with artificial lures, we check out all the latest artificial bait imitations, we purchase them just to say we have the latest and greatest in new artificial bait fishing lures or plastics. But when fishing gets really rough and artificials just are not getting it, Guess what ? we turn to the real thing live baits! Bait fishing naturals such as live baits which include crayfish, scuds,freshwater shrimp,saltwater shrimp,mud shrimp and ghost shrimp, also salamanders such as waterdogs,spring lizards, mudpuppies and leopard frogs. We also turn to fishing with live insects such as aquatic insects which include may flies, stone flies, caddis flies,crane flies, dragon flies. and dobson flies ( hellgrammites). And we cant forget terrestrial adult insect types such as crickets and grasshoppers as well as larva forms of catalpa worms, waxworms, goldenrod grubs, mousees, spikes, euro larvae, and meal worms. To be honest , it is estimated that 75 percent of all fish caught with a hook and a line are caught with live bait. We hope that our bait fishing information will help you when the fishing gets tough and you need to turn to natural baits.
There just hundreds of bait fish that work for freshwater fishing baits, and saltwater baits. You can use bait fish such as bluegills or sunfish, golden shiners, spottail shiner minnows, redbelly dace or rainbow minnows, fathead or tuffy or mudminnow, horney head or redtail chub, and freshwater shrimp baits. Some of the many saltwater bait fishing selections include herring, mackerel,smelt,mullet,mussels,saltwater shrimp, squid and tuna. All these bait fish both freshwater and saltwater are excellent selections for you bait fishing rigs.
Also we can’t for get the old reliable nightcrawlers as live bait. Nightcrawlers and other worm type such as the common nightcrawlers, european nightcrawlers, african Nightcrawlers, grunt worms, garden worms, red Wigglers,and leaf worms
Also There are just thousands of freshwater catfisherman so we thought we would mention a little bit about catfish baits. The catfish baits we have identified work for live bait presentations or dead cutbaits and prepared stink baits. These baits include nightcrawlers, suckers, chubs, shiners, goldfish, shad, skipjack herring, bluegills, catalpa worms, grasshoppers, leopard frogs, bullfrogs as cutbait, waterdogs, adult salamanders, crayfish, saltwater shrimp, clams, and blood baits. As you can see Catfish will will eat just about any natural bait presentation you put on your bait fishing rigs.
Most of the baits listed in our article can be caught or made by your self but sometimes these natural baits will be very hard to catch so finding reliable bait shop for for your bait fishing needs will be important. Also some of the baits listed are not normally sold in bait shops to learning to catch them yourself to use on your bait fishing rigs will be important.
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September 18, 2009 by admin
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Nightcrawlers and other worm types such as a common night crawler, European night crawler, African night crawler, grunt worms, garden worms, red wigglers, and leaf worms are as close as you can get to a universal live bait for all species of freshwater fish as you can get. They will catch any fish from common bluegill to the elusive sturgeon. Nightcrawlers have amazing fish appeal but there are some important reasons they are so popular. They are a very easy bait to find and a very easy bait to catch or raise if you are a interested in saving a few bucks,or just want fresh bait readily available. After a good rain you can catch enough nightcrawlers for multiple fishing trips. You can keep nightcrawlers alive for weeks at a time with some simple preparation. When you catch or buy your nightcrawlers make sure you put them in a large container , like a 5 gallon bucket. Fill the bucket at least 1/2 full with rich moist soil. then keep them in a cool spot.
If you want to build a worm farm and raise your own nightcrawlers to save a few bucks and have your own supply of live bait available, building a worm farm is actually very simple. Also finding your own nightcralwers is so simple and guess what? free! All you need to store your night crawlers and other worm types is a an area in your guarage or basement that stays cool or if you have garden space you can place one there too. The material I have found that works well to build you worm farm storage container is white pine. Get yourself some 1 x 12 white pine planks and make a wood box looking container approximately 3ft x 3ft x 2ft deep. After you have your storage container built move it to where you want your worm farm to stay. Once it filled with loomie moist soil it becomes quite heavy. You can get your soil from a compost pile or go to a garden store and purchase some fertile loamy soil, fill your box and wait for a rainy night. On a rainy hot night go out with your flashlight and capture at least 48 nightcrawlers and place them in your worm farm. Then let them undisturbed for about 2 weeks.
Worms are “Hermaphrodites” which means they have both male and female sex organs. These sex organs are found in the dark spot that looks like a Normal 0 collar near the head. One nightcrawler cannot produce by itself. As the saying says. “It takes two to tangle.” When two nightcrawlers or other worm types mate right both will be impregnated and produce a cocoon filled with eggs which they deposit in the soil.
The incubation period is usually about 2 to 3 weeks. Another amazing thing about night crawlers is you can pull them apart into pieces and they will not die! So you can use partial pieces of nightcrawlers and still have fresh and lively bait.
Night crawlers and other worms do not have eyes or ears but they can sense vibrations. That is why when you are trying to catch them they sometimes retreat back into their burrows before you get to them because they are sensing the vibrations of your feet. Nightcrawlers are also sensitive to light. If you hunt nightcrawlers at night do not point the beam of your flashlight directly at the crawlers. because they will immediately start moving back into their burrows. Instead, fan your light across the grass quickly and take note where you think you saw crawlers. Next step very softly close to the nightcrawlers then shine your light quickly and at the same time put you fingers on and as close to the burrow as you can and pull gently up, so you don’t pull the nightcrawler in half. On rainy nights if you see nightcrawlers that are paired up side by side by all means get these crawlers first because they are mating, and a good choice if you are starting a new worm farm.
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