Bad Walleye Day - NEED HELP

[hiram]

This was my first year at trolling and what a year to start learning, EXCEPT today.

I was out between Vermilion and Huron with the rest of the pack with my son and used the same tactics that I used successfully all summer but did not catch anything, not even a junk fish.

My program changed throughout the entire day but my typical setup was 2 or 3 dipseys and 1 or 2 flat lines. Michigan spoons both Stinger and Scorpion were being drug behind dipseys. A 3 setting ran 60-100 back or a 1 setting 30-60 back Deep diver Reef Runners and other cranks were being used on the flat lines. Varied everything all day long but nothing triggered any strikes. Flat liners consisted of my normal trolling rods spooled w/50# PowerPro line back 65-100 feet.

What I'm I doing wrong?

[Steve B]

Everyone has those days. I heard a lot of guys that killed 'em yesterday that had clean ice today.

Sometimes you just gotta pull all the lines in, move a couple hundred yards, say a quick prayer, get your game face on, forget about what just happened, and start over.

[Hawk Eye]

Hiram, everyone has a tough day occasionally. Sometimes, it's just being in the right place at the right time. The Optimist and I started at the 29/35 and only pulled two fish after having a good day here on Saturday. About 10 o'clock, we ran to the 24-25/29 line, and pulled 15 more. There were two small pockets of fish that produced 90% of the bites. Don't know if you made it that far west today, or if you stopped short of these lines.

One thing you don't say is what your speed was. We did best going 1.6-1.8 on the GPS speed over ground reading. For us anyway, today was a better crankbait bite, and we didn't run any dipsies. What worked best was the deep Reef Runner back 75-100, and a few fish came on the Ripstick 100 back. The bite was hot between 10-2 pm, and then slowed up. Eriedescent, Purple Prizm and Pink Lemonaide worked best. A few bites came when we slowed the boat to fish a bigger fish, so maybe we should have even fished higher.

Keep at it !!!

[Marky1]

You weren't the only one who struggled out there yesterday. I had some good fisherman on board and we managed snag one shad in 5 hours of trolling. We pulled reef runners, rip sticks, husky jerks, thunderstics, and spoons. We did have a big fish get off close to the boat, but other than that, it is VERY SLOW for us. It was another "Should have been here yesterday". It sounds like a few guys caught some fish, but for the most part, it was tough.

Mark