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TECHNIQUES I USE TO CATCH FISH

My favorite way to fish is - "however the fish want it." And there is only one way to find out today...

You can't always make the fish bite the way you want them too - or the way your friend reported yesterday or on the shiny new lure you bought yesterday. The Bull has stumped many a fisherman and even the pros are stumped down here occasionally... myself included... Being well rehearsed in as many techniques and tactics as I can is important when the fish just don't bite one way. This lake has the potential to rise and fall over 60' vertical. Sometimes dropping or raising over a foot or more overnight. This can easily change the patterns of the bite and the depths that walleye are found and caught. I never start fishing without a pretty good hunt and will, on most occasions, locate the fish before deploying my wares. Also, following trends, reports from friends and weather is an important part of my job.

I am ready, able and equipped to put most of the traditional walleye techniques to work including:

  • Bottom Bouncing spinners with crawlers or with cranks
  • Spooning the hot spots - (jigging with slab spoons)
  • Trolling cranks: deep, shallow or in between on: Lead core, on planar boards, on 3-ways, span weights, jet divers or down riggers with braid or fluorocarbon.
  • Jigging with a jig and a minnow or crawler
  • Rouging the banks with suspending stickbaits & swimbaits & working wakebaits
  • Slipbobbering
  • Drifting & working crawlers or minnows on carolina rigs or splitshotting

These tactics all work well at one time or another. Bull Shoals is vast and it has no weed beds or weedlines and has many variable conditions like wind, weather and currant. The dam is operated primarilly as flood control and for hydropower and it can turn on and off at a moments notice depending on the conditions downstream. The most important thing is knowing when, where and what to fish with.

I hand make a lot of my own lures, tie my own spinners, weights & sinkers, cast my own jigs and bottom bouncers and lots of my own equipment. I have a full machine and metal shop that I make my weather vanes in. I have found over the years that attention to detail usually makes all the difference.

My hooks are sharpened - knots are tight - we're ready to go...

Walleye on the bottom of the lake

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