Riggin for Walleye

[Wollysauce]

Was looking for some advice.  Have been fishing crooked creek on fort peck.  having a hard time hooking the walleye. Lots of nibbles and if they take it they spit it out half way pillin in. I use a 4 or 6 trebble under the dorsal fin.  Also have to use a steel leader so the pike don't snap the line.  I've seen some people use a two hook system with one treble under the dorsal and one single hook through the mouth.  I feel too much gear around your minnow spookes the walleye.  Any suggestions? Do i sacrafice losing some hooks and minnows and not use a leader to not spooke the walleye?

[jasonfishn]

I have been fishn Peck for 5 years and have landed literally a hundred + pike and never had one break me off. I have lost em in the trees but even a steel leader wont fix that lol so i use a 3 foot with a #2 MUSTAD HOOK  walleys northerns and lake trout will all take it.

[beerhunter]

how do you know its walleye? do you have a camera?

cause i was gettin light hits that would set off flags and figured it was perch or crappie doing it.
had no camera but would mark the fish on the marcum. 

[rambo51]

IMO the steel leader doesnt scare away the walleye especially the big ones. We have steel leader on all our tipups and they have all caught a good number of walleye. And really the minnow size doesn't scare a little walleyeIn fact one morning we went and checked our tipups and a flag was up so we went to that one and while I was pulling it in it felt like there was noting there. Once I pulled it all the way in there was a dead walleye (maybe a pound) with our huge sucker sticking out of its mouth it wasn't even hooked and the walleye had a huge chunk of it missing from a big northern.

[Firetrap]

From the looks of it, nobody is talking about jigging.       and a +1 on the perch messing with your set up.  If you catch a perch every now and again it's most definitely perch screwin with it.

[OUTHNTN]

To find out if its perch, grab a jigging rod w/ a small jig and tip it w/ a small minnow head.  Perch in Peck love that setup.  I keep a jiggin rod w/ that setup in my atv for just that occasion!  Last few years, when I get a tripped tipup with the minnow still on but no major tooth marks, I start jigging the hole and more often than not you'll catch a bucket full of perch.  Sometimes it's been a small walleye or 2, but usually perch.  A few years back I was checking tipups and as I was pulling the bait out of the hole to see if it was still lively, a perch followed it up right to the surface.  Grabbed a jigging rod and proceeded to catch 30 decent perch.  Funny thing was the perch that came up the hole following the bait was a 6" perch or so, yet the bait was a 10" sucker minnow!  It stayed in the hole for probably 10 seconds before it gave up and went back down.  About 5 perch later, I think I caught him   Good fishin' - OH

[jasonfishn]

HAha yes out I had that happen last year in Hell creek I was fishn in about 6 ft of water and I happen to be checkin it when a perch came up and was hitting my minnow that was as big as he was lol I got a perch pole and got to take a small jig it was pretty kewl

[MatCat]

We use some 25lb braided line for a leader instead of steel.  Have caught plenty of pike and walleye without getting bitten off.

[Keaten LaBrel]

On tiber, I like to run a #2 octopus hook through the head with a smaller treble attached as a stinger attached with one hook one the bottom of the bait where the tail begins.  Haven't had any troubles with that set-up.