Harnesses Over Crankbaits Any Time of the Year

[CAPTBRIAN]

I have some of these mepps lures given to me by mepps. When i use them i hope to have the same results. But when i use them i will let you know either way what results i do get from them.

[Fish Tales]

I have some of these mepps lures given to me by mepps. When i use them i hope to have the same results. But when i use them i will let you know either way what results i do get from them.

Brian, from looking at the original post it sounds like you should take a few extra coolers with you. Probably a baseball bat just in case LOL

Kevin

[miso_ohio]

That's nothing I was out off the old bay bridge in Sandusky Bay last Saturday to get out of that awful blow. Got all the way out there and realized I forgot all my cranks and harnesses so I did not know what to do. So I started jigging Skipper Nine rigs tipped with bits off of a Cold Cut subway sub I had purchased for dinner and we slayed them.

I am taking 20 fish that had to be over 10 lbs, I was not 100% sure since I forgot my scale. I have attached a picture of the biggest one, I was really nervous trying to get this one since I only had 6 Lb test on but old OneEye did a great job with the net.

[Fish Tales]

Were you dipping the hooks in jagermeister

[BossHogg]

Was that a #100 Mepps, blade about the size of a hub cap?

[miso_ohio]

Were you dipping the hooks in jagermeister

It was Jager mixed half and half with AfterShock, I was misting it with a bottle. A little for the fishes and a little for me, mind you I did not drive the boat back in, we let the last fish tow us to shore.

[Bggeary]

Miso you funny guy.

[reellivin]

Wow, I had no idea there would be a reaction like this. Let me take a minute to try to explain and try to answer everybody's concerns. First, everything I posted about my catch on Erie is 100% accurate and true. We were on Lake Erie from 4/19 through 4/25. Myself and 3 friends caught over 140 walleyes over 7 lbs. I have dozens of photos and lots of video. We caught and released fish all day, only keeping fish that were gill-hooked or looked like they wouldn’t make it. At the end of the day, when we reached our legal limit, we stopped fishing. We had many doubles and triples of fish between 27 and 32 inches. We did start the first day dragging crank baits because that’s how we’ve done well every other time we fished here, and so that’s how the guys I was with wanted to fish. After we had a good morning, and everybody was satisfied that we had caught fish I convinced them to give these new Mepps Trolling Rigs a try. It is absolutely a fact that I helped Mepps to develop these lures. I wasn’t trying to hide that. Like someone pointed out, look at the Mepps hat. I want to be clear that I am not paid by Mepps. But it’s also a fact that we had an amazing week of fishing these lures. I didn’t mean to make my post sound like a commercial, but I wanted to give you all the details about my experience. I assumed with the results I had people would want to know the details, especially since a lot of guys don’t typically think about dragging harnesses this early in the year. This experience was an eye opener for me too. I’ll attach a couple more pictures here and I did send the videos to Mepps. I think they’re going to edit it together and put something on their website, hopefully soon. Like I said, our results were REALLY good, so I thought other walleye fishermen would want to know.

[stubby]

I have some of these mepps lures given to me by mepps. When i use them i hope to have the same results. But when i use them i will let you know either way what results i do get from them.

i don't have the ones mepps makes but for years now, i have made my own with a mepps #3 with hair and a 2" stinger hook 6' fluro lead on a tad pole or keel weight
they work great and i bet a lot cheaper than over ten bucks each!

favorite is a black blade with white dots fwiw