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    Default Change things up

    You don't have to troll to catch walleye. Regardless of if you are drifting or trolling you are going to catch junk fish. Listen to what the fish are telling you. If you are drifting and casting using a count down or something and every time you do that specific technique you catch a sheep head, change it up. Fish higher or lower or change your weight change the speed, move to a new spot or whatever until you catch a walleye and then try to reproduce that technique. We limited out Sunday. We caught 7 drifting, and then switched to trolling after the wind died and caught our last 5. We tried trolling higher in the water at first and where just hammering huge sheep head. We lowered our presentation and started catching mostly walleye. When we were drifting it was the opposite. If we ran our baits low we couldn't keep the sheep head off. Had to fish high to catch the walleyes. If you are catching only junk fish, change up your presentation.

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    Sent you a pm Shilo.

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    This is the spawning season for Sheepshead and the males are super agressive, they most generally are in the upper 1/3 of the water column. In cleaner water and if you are casting from the bow of your boat you can see pods of sheepshead everywhere this time of year. They are very prominant in the reef complex during spawning season.

    bocajemma: You have given some very sound and excellent advise!!
    Last edited by wakina; 06-06-2011 at 12:04 PM.

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    thanks for the advice....i will try these techuiques this weekend...once again thanks.. good luck

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