When locating springtime walleye you want to be fishing just off the bottom, so it's important to coordinate the weight of your rig with the speed of the current. The faster the current ...

Joe Shead Live-bait rigs are the perfect way to cover water when walleyes are scattered over flats. They allow you to quickly cover water, but the scent and feel of a live nightcrawler ...

"Rigging," as this technique is most often referred to, is an excellent method for presenting live bait as naturally as possible. The secret is simple: the hole through the sinker. Walleyes are ...

A nightcrawler harness is a time-tested, proven, multi-hook rig used to present live nightcrawlers in a slow but efficient and enticing way. They are especially effective for targeting walleye.

and the No. 1 lure being trolled by most walleye anglers right now is the spinner rig. Whether you are fishing with night crawlers, leeches or minnows, the versatile spinner rig is sure to catch fish.

Spinner rigs, ’crawler harnesses, whatever you want to call them, in many situations they excel in catching summertime walleyes. For those unfamiliar, a typical walleye spinner rig consists of ...

Fish vertically with a jigging spoon. Thread a live nightcrawler on a drop-shot rig and hang on. The king of walleye rigs is trolling with a nightcrawler rig behind a bottom bouncer. Say what?

This was the case in what has become known in walleye fishing circles as the slow-death rig. To help me with this process, I turned to professional angler Dan Swanson, of guiding and media company ...