Quote Originally Posted by gb1234 View Post
... or, do you want to catch walleye without all the complexity and expense of trolling? Some people catch walleye just by casting or jigging.

I fished the western basin for years with nothing more than my spinning gear and mostly 3/8 weight gold and silver nugget forward spinners and we caught tons of fish back then but that was before the water cleared but we did use try other lures and heavier and lighter baits as needed. Once that happened the fish became more scattered and we started trolling using mostly the 2" hot-n-tots and the wiggle warts in the regular size. We had to do the same thing as we did drift fishing and let out line until we thought was about 100' to 150' and went by the bend in our rods to adjust the speed.

when we were drifting, we let out about 100' to 150' and put our rods against the side of the boat and just drifted and let the wind and boat action work our baits.

the only thing we used our depth finder was to show the depth. fishing was so simple back then and fighting the fish free hand was so much more fun.

but moving to the central basin changed everything for us. but i have heard a few boats are using heavier weights and doing fair drifting worn burners and weight forward spinners.