JIGGING FOR EYES

jigging is very popular in spring on the reef complexes in the western part of the lake.

Drop a jig with a crawler to the bottom in 30 ft of water and a gobie will clean your hook faster than you can blink here in Erie.

litl dude, we drift with worm harnesses all the time and bring home stringers full of walleye. anywhere from 30 to 45 ft.

Jigging will work for walleyes anywhere. Whoever told you that was either pulling your leg or just a hardcore narrow minded troller.... like me. lol

Trolling is a great way to find and catch eyes. But once you find them you can do good jigging. They wander though so the trick is to stay on them. When we're dragging dipsies in the summer there are always boats parked right on our trolling routes. Alot of the time they are netting fish as we drive by. This is anywhere from 20 to 70 feet of water too.

Jigging catches most anything if you know how to do it for that time of year and have the right gear.

If you get on a school of Erie eyes like the one in front of Conny last year you could be done in 1/2 hour. Not too hard to stay on a school that's a couple miles wide.

Good luck.

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Bottom Line....For most, in these parts, its a meat run and guys aren't really concerned with the "sport" of it. Absolutely, jigging will produce fish once you find them. Trolling is by far, more effective in filling the box quicker since more water is being covered in a shorter amount of time and thats why more people are doing it. Odd though, in all the years of perchin', I've never once caught a walleye in my boat?

i was thinking this same thing last year. walleye eat perch, i am fishing on a school of perch, why no walleye?

I got one eye in all the years I perch fished,late Sept. off the point 68 fow 7.5 lbs on a perch spreader,bottom hook.I thought I hade a big sheepie.Only one since the late 70's. I got sick off banging smally's one day in late May fishing the north pier before going out to the lake,and trolled tots in front of the Hammer mill and slammed a two man ticket of eyes 18-21 inches in less than 2 hours,and never caught them again there.

We very often troll just outside the perch packs successfully. Have even perched after wrapping up the eye rods and end up tossing back a couple eyes that came on perch rigs rigged with shinners. More common than you might think.