Slip float does the trick!

Just returned from our annual walleye fishing trip to Canada. Traditionally we fish for the spring walleye with a small crappie hair jig tipped with a minnow or leach slowly retrieved along the bottom.

Well, up in this area of Canada the bottom of the lakes are mainly rock. The walleye tend to cruise the many boulders and rock piles as this time of the year are the only cover for the bait they target. As you can imagine pulling a small jig along the bottom there often results in many snags as the jig will fall between cracks or rocks and get hung up very easily. During our crappie spawn up in Michigan we often fish a slip float and decided I was going to give that technique a try here to avoid getting rocked up constantly.



Well, lets just say after the first day I had 8 other guys asking me for tackle and teach them how to set up a slip float rig.
It is interesting to me how often I hear how you can only catch certain species with a particular method.
Nothing beats the visual of watching that float pop and slowly sink just like our crappie bite. We caught many different species with this technique.


We also did our traditional trolling with stick baits in 4-8ft of water that also produced a few walleye and larger northern pike.

Was a great week. My boat crew netted over a hundred walleye for the week with a few northern pike and 20-30 big small-mouth bass mixed in.

Both the other boats had similar results.

Nothing beats processing a freshly caught fish and enjoying it on the supper table a couple hours later.