Quote Originally Posted by Eyezcrazy View Post
Went out this morning and started fishing by 7:30 am. Fished purple hair and chartruse and green hair jigs for 6hours and didn't catch a single walleye. Especially bad since the wife made the trip with me. We were about 1 1/2 miles out of wild wing's and moved West to the beach area tried 12' to 16' depth range. We tipped with large shinners.
We did see a few nets go down but no luck for us. I tried jigging at full drift speed and then slowed it down with a couple of 5 gal. buckets. I don't do the big jerking I see some people doing, I just let the jig tap the bottom and lift steady a couple feet to feel the elusive bite. I have made some good post in the past on successful trips fishing harnesses or weapons, even trolling spoons. I just can't seem to figure out how to jig successfully. Same thing last year at this time SKUNKED! I really need some good advice from you jig fisherman before I give it up completely.
Funny how this works sometimes. We were right out there with you and did pretty well. 7 guys 31 fish on sat. & 38 on sun. The majority were caught early then it slowed as the day went on.

I was the only one tipping with minnows on sat. and the other guys were actually doing better. I tipped with half a crawler on sun. and did good but the guys that weren't using them did just as well.