Spring Walleye spooning

[foo]

I was thinking about doing some spring spooning on lake flats and off rocky bottoms this year early in the season in 5-12 feet of water. Basically some vertical jigging on some breaks off the flats and also casting and jigging them back across flats just drifting.
I am not real familar with the technique but, it seems straight forward enough. I am going try a number different sizes (1/4 to 1 1/2 oz) and brands like Northland, cabelas (they look real good) and Luhr.
Anybody had luck with this during the springtime? Colors, techniques?
I fish central/south MN lakes.

[TrollerMan]

Howdy! What lakes are you typically targeting and are you talking "jigging spoons" like the Buckshot or casting or trolling type spoons?
I'll put in a plug for bladebaits as long as we're on the subject.
Thanks - TrollerMna
Waconia MN USA

[foo]

All jigging--Cabela's Real Image,Luhr Jensen crippled herring, northland buckshot, Hopkins. The type of lakes are mostly clear sand, gravel, and scattered weed beds, good structure, and big flats. The main walleye lakes in the area about 5000-8000 acres in size.

[duckbutter]

I don't know about spring jigging but we've had good luck ice fishing using Bay de Noc DOO Jiggers tipped with a minnow head.

[SUPERTROLLER]

Hopkins spoons, 1/2, 3/4, and 1oz. Silver or Gold, some plain, some with tape. I'm partial to Chartreuse tape with either Silver or Gold colors. These are by far the most popular spoons in my area, SW Michigan.

[Jim Ordway]

On almost all lakes and rivers in Wisconsin, blade baits like cicadas and particlar local favorite is a zip lure. Losts of colors work. Perch, blue/silver, purple, and others can work. The key to using these is to finds bottom and give an slight rip up following the bait back down and repeat. You usually just find weight on the line on the upstroke, being that they often hit on the fall.
You can cast and rip as well, but not usually effective as vertical.
I always give one a shot on every outing in all seasons. It is important to use a swivel a few feet up the line to avoid line twist.
This is truely a good bait.
Take care,

[slipbob]

For many years I used to exlusively throw spoons for walleyes out of necessity and developed a technique that works pretty good. We have one place here that's an excellent walleye lake but it's also a water supply reservoir and no boats of any kind are allowed and you can't even wade so it's bank fishing only. The only way to reach the fish on some of the shallower shorelines in the spring and fall is to make very long casts which requires spoons thrown on light braid with a good swivel and short mono or floro leader. I have good luck with fire tiger Krocodiles by letting them sink to the bottom and ripping it 3 or 4ft, reel up the slack, let it fall to bottom again and repeat all the way in. It's just creating a very erratic lift fall motion on the retrieve and most hits come on the drop and you just feel the weight of the fish as you go to rip it again but sometimes the fish just smash it. From shore the goal is to cast as far as you possibly can but if you're casting spoons from a boat you don't have to be so concerned with distance casting but the technique should still work. If you can fish with a boat I think jigs or cranks might be a better spring option but it's worth experimenting with.