Reply by: Sleazy E      Posted: 5/17/2012 2:02:34 PM     Points: 1119    

When I was fishing for walleye's, sauger's, and smallies a couple of weeks ago I was fishing with big swimbaits rigged weedless and off of the bottom. Swimming them for a couple feet and pausing them in and around the rocks 10yrds off shore from the rip rap. I was getting a lot of bites that felt like bass hits off of the bottom and was failing to hook up on most of them. I finally landed a fish this way and was really close to lipping it when I found it was a sauger.
Try larger grubs or paddle tail plastics in bright or dark colors. I'm relatively new to eye fishing and I can say that you have to be patient when setting the hook on them. Night fishing there is definitely preferred for them eyes. If anything you will still have a huge chance at catching smallies to save the day.

 Reply by: Coloradomrg      Posted: 5/17/2012 2:11:00 PM     Points: 1925    

I'm no expert... but kastmasters or lil cleos very slowly over riprap areas may work too. Be prepared to set your hook into the rocks a few times!

 Reply by: lilbreigh      Posted: 5/17/2012 2:18:24 PM     Points: 760    

There have been several posts in the last few weeks about catching Walleyes from shore from various different people.....go look through those....not going to rehash their posts but they give very good advice and current tactics for catching Wally's from shore right now...

Good Luck!

 Reply by: chevsincolo1      Posted: 6/4/2012 10:35:43 AM     Points: 115    

i grew up in the midwest and we use a lot of slip sinker set ups with a piece of heavy braided line to prevent line snaps from the walleyes. i usually use leeches and leave the bail open so they can take the bait and run for a bit. walleyes are tentative eaters. they take their time ingesting the bait. im not an expert but this works best for me.