Give dropping a jig line straight down into the thickest of weeds, and keep it about five to ten foot deep.  If you are not having luck there, try jigging off rocky points or drop offs in shoals.  When it is windy, you can just let your boat drift and jig over the hot zone.

At night, the big walleye come out of the deep water, and move to the shoreline to feed.  Just troll with the smaller lures I talked about earlier.  Just remember that the hotter it gets, the deeper you will have to go to find those big trophy sized walleye.  If you are daylight fishing in the summer, you need to find a deep spot where they are holding, and fish with jigs, but finding them can be tough.  Try the bottom, or out in the opens, but try to find a thermal and get as deep into it as you can.

The big trophy Walleye are usually females and will hide in deep holes during the day. You can try fishing deeper for them with jigs but you cannot really cover a lot of ground and fishing deep with jigs is only effective if you find a deep spot where the Walleyes are congregating.

To catch the big trophy Walleyes during the day, you have to fish deep and right off bottom or out in open water but down deep in the thermal layer, usually from fifteen to thirty-five feet or so down using Husky Jerks or some other deep diving lure you like, in silvers and browns.   For best results, you really need a depth finder.

Early in the ice fishing season, you will need to look from ten to fifteen feet deep along the points and in the middle of the lakes on the flats, moving more shallow with the deeper snowfalls, as well as early or late in the day.  If you are fishing in low light conditions, fish with high visibility lures, and bounce them just a bit, because the walleye do not see well in low light.

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