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How to Catch Walleye - Consistently Catch Walleye in Any Conditions
By Brian Stover

If you want to consistently know how to catch walleye, in the post spawn, summer, fall and cold water period I am going to tell you how to do it. Most anglers around the globe do not know how, let alone what, to use to catch walleyes on a consistent basis. Not to mention knowing what to use in the different places you will find them at different times of the year.

Walleyes are always on the move - here today gone tomorrow - so you need to know where they are to be able to catch them. If you do not know that then how are you going to catch them in the first place!

In the post spawn they will be on shallow flats because that is where there food will be located. A good presentation is using gulp alive minnows on a jig. If you want to know how to catch a walleye in the summer period, when their food source is deep and shallow (depending on weather conditions), go after them with a spinner rig with a three way swivel that has a dropper weight of two foot or less. This will keep the spinner at the the level of your dropper weight. If it is set at 18", it will be 18" off the bottom. That is a good rule of thumb to go by.

When they are shallow, throw a original floating rapala at them in the early morning and late evening, before the sunrise and after the sunset.

Now if you try to catch walleyes in the fall and cold water period where you caught them in the summer your going to strike out. Instead, throw a big jig with a big bait like a chub or shiner up on the flats and the fast breaking drop offs. This is big fish time for walleyes and the larger baits will serve you well.

So now you have a basic understanding of how to catch walleye in the spring, summer and fall periods. Just remember that walleyes are always on the move following their food source, so do not try a summer location for walleyes in the spring! This is where most anglers fail!

Just remember it like this, in the spring when water temperature is about 50 degrees, walleye are in the post spawn, so they are on the shallow food in the flats. In the summer when it is stable weather you will find some on drop offs and some deep like at the base of the drop offs. You have to respond as the walleye does. In the fall and cold water periods they come back to the shallows and it is big fish time. Now you are learning how to catch walleye, no matter where they move to.

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