Quinte Fishing

Does anyone use spinner baits when fishing for Walleyes - a worm harness with a spinner is a common go to but I was wondering if a regular spinner bait would get yourself walleyes - thanks - joe

I'm not saying you can't, but why would you when a stickbait or crankbait will out produce it every time.

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They differently do produce walleye. more of a summer time thing, when hard bait bite is slow.
Have seen guys put on "shows" trolling white spinner baits. catch a bunch of fish within a couple minutes.
Boats around trolling hard baits catching nothing..
This relates to local walleye, not the 5 plus year old fish that are migratory, (the fall monsters)..

Spent a week in July, with my son fishing Lac Seul, boated between 4 and 5 hundred pickerel, using
only Lindy Rigs, chartreuse blade in the morning, gold in the afternoon. That's all they liked.

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BluePickerel

But that isn't a spinner bait, just a worm harness

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Here ya go JoePa. Apparently it can be done successfully. I kinda look at it the same way i would look at a jitterbug or hula popper. Sure ya hear of people catching walleye on topwater occasionally, (usually on accident) but i cant believe that if those fish are feeding it isnt going to hit a spinnerbait and not hit a stickbait trolled or casted in the same area. Blue Pickerel, that must have been a bunch of fun especially because you shared memories with your son.

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Worm rigs WORK!!!!!

David aka Superdad

Yes Landshark, that was the best week I've ever had away with my son, bonus was my son wanted a pike over 20 lbs. first day he hooks one that went 24 1/2 lbs. What a week.

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BluePickerel

Erie Dearie works good too trolling or cashing I use them with a night crawler

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Charlie

They definitely work and some of my biggest have come on spinner baits but mostly in shield lakes where I'd toss them up the shorelines with sharp rocks, breaks, cliffs, etc where it drops off fast (like 15'+ just off the shore). Started out as something to do for afternoon bass etc but I found that the big aggressive eye's would jump all over it. Has worked in Thunder Bay and Temiscamingue (lake Kipawa) areas so well that buddies borrowed most of mine. Plus in heavy rocky areas going solo in a rental tiller its a nice way to stay off the rocks and hit precise spots that are hard when trolling (around a tree, in a rock pile etc). Definitely not a replacement for the classics like a harness but it certainly has its place.

The first fish in this video is an example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEJ9MnWTdEU

Pre Zebras had guys that fish with me casting the shore line IN BOQ used spinner baits allot ,not so good now to use all the time, ???????

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i am from the new york and own a place on green pt. have fished here for over 30 yrs.