Blade size/Fish habbits Q & A.

[Walleye Express]

Capt. Dan.

Thank's for the help and all the comments. It makes sense to start small early on as the water warms to get more aggresive with the bigger blades. Up north here was my first year trying 5's so 7's or bigger is hard to imagine. I would probably be more willing to run them down there on the bay. You think the fish have a diff. mind set on inland lake compared to the bay?

I learned long ago to avoid thinking that fish have a mind set at all. That only confuses things fishing stategy wise, and puts a human spin on what is pure instinct for a living thing with the brain the size of a BB. The real funny part of this reality is, this type thinking is usually considered thinking outside the box. Fish can be conditioned by and indeed learn the best foraging times and prey through their individual environments IMV. If their main forage is Golden Shiners in a particualr lake, they zone in on them, the way they look and the places they frequent. If it's crayfish, chubs, dace, perch even bullheads (believe it or not) they get conditioned to go where and when these meals frequent an area, and are easy prey. And if fish only attacked those things that were natural looking, you'd never catch another walleye on a firetiger anything. Study your lake, it's forage base and the stomachs of any walleyes you catch from it. This will never give you all the pieces of the puzzle, but may aid in placing a few of them. Capt. Dan.