Masters Walleye Circuit 2025
March 21-22 – Illinois River, Spring Valley, Illinois
April 11-12 – Lake Erie, Port Clinton, Ohio
May 2-3 – Lake Petenwell, Rome, Wisconsin
May 30-31 – Lake Oahe, Mobridge, South Dakota
July 18-19 – Bay De Noc, Gladstone, Michigan
September 12-13 – Cass Lake, Cass Lake, Minnesota
National Walleye Tour Schedule 2025
April 24th-25th – Lake Sharpe, Pierre, SD
May 22nd-23rd – Mississippi River, La Crosse, WI
July 10th-11th – Lake Huron, Alpena, MI
August 7th-8th – Lake Erie, Dunkirk, NY
CHAMPIONSHIP – Sept. 4-6 – Bay of Green Bay, Marienette, WI
Best Walleye Baits & Lures for Every Season
Welcome to WalleyeBaits.net – your go-to source for the best walleye fishing baits, lures, and gear. Whether you’re casting on cold northern lakes or trolling rivers during the summer bite, we offer top-rated walleye lures and tackle to match every fishing condition.
It’s our job to curate gear designed specifically for targeting walleye, including premium walleye jigs, spinner rigs, soft plastics, and hard baits. New to walleye fishing? Check out our tips and product guides to help you choose the perfect bait for spring, summer, or ice fishing seasons.
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Take a look at all the walleye baits and tackle items available. You’ll find walleye rods, reels and combinations and plenty of lures, jigs, spinners, grubs and harnesses. We also have hooks, snells, sinkers, as well as books and DVDs. All are from quality merchants offering well-known brands like Loomis, Abu Garcia, Shimano, Daiwa, Northland and Lindy.
Early Summer Walleye!
So, now that we’re on the edge of summer and the water is warming into the 60’s, walleyes are hungry and aggressive. And they’re not necessarily feeding at a particular depth, but bottom to top, throughout the water column. There are two major spring/early summer events to consider. First, once the water hits a certain temperature, the algae begins to bloom, attracting minnows to feed on the nutrients blooms provide. Minnows are a walleye favorite, of course, so they will follow them up to the shallower depths along the shore to feast on the baitfish. Snap jigging at a slow troll is often a great way to go. Popping the jig up quickly and then letting it drop slowly toward the floor can appear to a walleye as an easy meal trying to escape.
An additional feeding opportunity at this time of year is the bug hatch. Every spring, mayflies and other larvae and flies are hatching and walleye will gorge themselves on them. Again, this feeding can occur anywhere in the water column because walleye will actually root through soft bottoms searching for nymphs or come right up to the surface to suck them up. Many fishermen figure that when the hatch is on, walleyes are filled to the gills with hatchlings and have no interest in chasing after anglers’ presentations. That’s not entirely true, however. Considering that walleyes are focused on small prey, running smaller spinners, butterfly blades and jigs trailing a leech or half a crawler along the outer edges of insect clouds can be very successful.
Of course, techniques and strategies like the above are only starting points and, with a little research, you’ll find a lot of great ideas for spring and summer success.
Speaking of small butterfly blades, there are several on the market that are slow, smooth and quiet, with lots of flash, if that’s what you’re looking for. The blades are light-weight polycarbonate, so less snagging or stalling. They come in all sorts of colors and configurations, single, double hooks, Super Death, etc. One of the advantages is that you can troll them very slowly, down to .25 mph and offer short-striking walleyes a presentation they’re more likely to take.
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Top Walleye Headlines
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- Central Basin of Lake Erie a walleye bonanza: NE Ohio fishing report - Cleveland.com
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Great Spring Walleye Lures
Rapala Original Floating Minnow
The Rapala Original Floating Minnow is the lure that started it all and is still one of the most popularures around. Whether twitched on the top as a surface bait, retrieved as a shallow runner, weighted with a split-shot for medium-depth swimming.
Bass Pro Shops XPS Walleye Jigs
Endorsed by top walleye pros, theses jigs have a unique flat-footed design that keeps your bait in a natural ”feeding” position, just out of bottom debris. Great for vertical jigging in current. Upsized wide-gap premium hook; sharp, vivid colors. 6 pack.
Rapala Shad Rap Hardbait
Balsa wood construction under incredible finishes makes the Rapala Shad Rap the lure big fish find irresistible. Built tough with hard-divingips and sharp treble hooks, theseegendaryures have the power to survive even the toughest fights.
Smithwick Walleye Deep Floating Rattlin' Rogue
When you need to get deep, reach for a Smithwick Walleye Deep Floating Rattlin’ Rogue. This proven minnowbait with the extended divinglip floats at rest and digs down quickly when on the move. Equipped withoud fish-attracting rattles
Rapala Deep Down Husky Jerk
A natural for walleye, the Rapala® Down Deep Husky Jerk is designed to reach depths approaching 20′ on the troll and more than 10′ on the cast. Choose from painted, silver-plated finishes or the hot glass patterns with a transparent body and holographic foil spine that reflects light in all directions. Complete with premium VMC® black nickel treble hooks.