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Only 2 Rods For Walleye...which ?

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Let say you only  can have 2 rods for walleye on boat...which one would be and for which techniques?

Need some help....will soon go for 10 days fishing trip....and never really fished for walleye ( got two by accident .. was looking for bass).

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That's going to depend a lot on the body of water for me. Not going to use the same rods in a lake VS a river and the size of lake is going to have an influence also. For around here I'd probably have to go with a couple spinning rods in the 6' 6"-7' range, one ML/F and one M/F. That would allow me to jig, cast cranks and jerks, and pull Lindy rigs. If I was going to a bigger lake I'd want trolling rigs to pull bottom bouncers or cranks though. On a river with much current I'd want a little heavier spinning rods to handle the heavier jigheads I'd need to get to the bottom. 

7' ML spinning for cranks, jerkbaits and jigs, and also spinner rigs.

6,6'' M for rip jigging hair jigs in weeds and fishing heavier jigs in open water.

Normaly i would carry a 6'8'' L for fun when fishing small jigs and slipfloats.

Personally when fishing open water eyes the only two rods i would need are a spinning setup with braid for rip jigging and a casting rod for bottom bouncing

Other than that I sometimes troll cranks like the berkley flicker shad. The flicker minnows comming out soon it will be a hot bait!

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Thank you

Expecting some more then 5lb walleye........I dont have ML....its really  (fishing for walleye) the difference ?

Here what I have:

BC :

MH 7' Fast Avid

MH 6'10 Moderate Fenwick Smallmouth

M 7' Fast Avid

Spinning:

MH XFast 6'10 Fenwick Aetos (bought this recently)

M XFast  6'10  Avid

 

Buy ML rod or not....will fishing on some medium size lakes ( September).

No need to buy another rod, I would use the 6'10 avid spinning and the 6'10 moderate smallie rod if you will be trolling cranks.

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