WalleyeFan News
A GULP Alive tip for everyone.
I have spent lots of time in the boat with 10 to 15 jugs of all different GULP Alive baits – the best way I have found to prevent them from leaking all over the storage compartments is the following.
Take a pocket knife and cut a hole in the top seal so you do not remove it…this seems to keep a good seal and prevents the juice from leaking out around the edges.
This is a very hot technique that has been a tournament staple over the years for many pro anglers. It was a hot technique I used in Dryden during the PWT Super Pro event with GULP! Alive. View the video below by Chase Parsons from The Next Bite.
I field many questions from Lowrance owners about their sonar flashing and loosing a lock on bottom when fishing shallow. The best way to keep a steady lock on bottom when fishing shallow is to select sonar Features from the Menu when in sonar mode. Then select Shallow Water preset from the pull-down menu as shown in the images. I often fish in 2 to 8 feet of water and these default settings provided by Lowrance work great at keeping a solid image of bottom. Click on images to view larger.
With the stained water on Wabigoon it was like fishing in a cup of tea with lots of milk. At one point when trying to troll crank baits I could not tune any of the baits because once they went below the surface you could not see them. I knew going into the Can-Am event that noise was going to be a factor, so I pulled out some Fin-tech Tech Stiks and started pulling round spinners with the Tech Stik ticking bottom every so often to make some noise. The fish where spread out around the flats I was fishing so I needed technique to cover water. At one point in practice I noticed the walleye where missing the harness and often just mouthing the bait. I switched out to slow death hooks and Berkley GULP 3″ Pumpkin-seed Frys and started catching fish. All of my 22 to 26″ walleye during practice and the tournament came of this set-up. I was usually fishing any where from 6 to 22 feet of water on the top and edges of flats next to deep water.
I am also considering only fishing with Gulp at the next PWT in the Soo in a few weeks time. The GULP Alive crawlers and Fry have been a great addition to my bait arsenal and It is nice to get up in the morning and not have to get all the ice, coolers and live bait ready for tournament day.
I would like to thank Cody Roswickof Berkley soft baits for all the seport in this great artifical only tournament as it will surely shape the future of walleye tourney fishing.
