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Walleye Football Jig

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One of the lakes i go to has all kinds of crawfish and the walleyes have there bellys full with crawfish. has anyone tryed just dragging a 3/4 skirted football jig with like a hula grub trailer around stucture to catch eyes? I been looking around online havent seen this topic? anyone else have any suggestions on how to mimic a crawfish presintation to catch them ?

 

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Was a period in my youth where we used jigs 90% of the time for walleyes.  Often swimming them, but dragging, too.  Most of the time, I felt that they preferred more agressive moving baits, but certainly not always.

Same in the lake where I live. The water is loaded with craws but I really don't catch them on jigs though I have caught a few on tubes fishing for smallmouth. The way I like to catch these walleyes is using crawfish cranks especially at night when they are up shallow in the rip rap. I'm sure you could catch them on a jig but in my opinion it would be easier using a crank in a craw pattern.

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now i have caught them using spinnerbaits slow rolling them thats been my go to in the weeds. ill have to check into the tubes i heard about it just never tryed it

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I've caught lots of walleyes dragging craw colored hula grubs. Craw colored cranks have caught me quite a few as well. 

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thanks for the help any suggetions on color tubes or just  stick to green pumpkin and watermelon?

Alot of bites for me have come late night and early morning so colors was dark. Black and blue and black with blue flake. I'm sure during the day they would hit chartreuse or maybe try matching the hatch. I prefer bass pro shops teaser tubes and the bps tender tubes. I throw most of my tubes on 1/8th oz insert heads

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