Capt Roberson Doing what he does best!<\/p><\/div>\n

But the bread and butter blade style for most walleye anglers on the Great Lakes is the Colorado blade in a size 5, but number 4 and 6 Colorado’s are also very popular choices. Blades as large as number 8 are used routinely by serious anglers, including tournament guys looking to catch the eye of the largest walleyes in the system.<\/p>\n

The color combination an angler could come up with is only limited by their imagination. Color can and does matter at times, but all too often fishermen focus way too much on color and not enough time on getting the rig in the strike zone of the walleye. This is the single most important thing to remember and master when it comes to getting bit while trolling spinner rigs.<\/p>\n

Luckily these days we have about as many ways to get the lure down as there are blade types, but we are going to stick to the basics and the most popular methods here.<\/p>\n

There are three basic ways of getting the harness down: snap weights, in-line weights and bottom bouncers. Bottom Bouncers are used for trolling along the bottom like their name implies, but to reach the most active fish in the system you have to fish high. When walleyes are up in the water column they are doing one thing and one thing only, and that’s feeding. So, these fish will be your most aggressive fish in that area, and that is where understanding and mastering snap and in-line weights come into play.<\/p>\n

Snap Weight<\/strong><\/p>\n