One fish displayed up top is like seeing four down below. “A cone angle in 30-feet of water is roughly 19-feet across but is 6-feet across 1/3 of the way down. You won’t mark more fish at the top, but that one fish represents multiple, whereas if they are on the bottom, they’ll more easily show since there’s three times more coverage from the transducer,” Robertson started. “You have to remember that a cone is 2 to 3 times bigger at the bottom than at the top. Most anglers target those fish because they appear in high numbers as opposed to one or two in the upper part of the water column.
Sure, they’ll be in high numbers, and they might even be big walleye, but they’re typically inactive and quite often are white bass, big baitfish, or sheepshead. The problem- everyone else was targeting the walleye on the bottom. Time and again, Robertson will pull his Ranger Fisherman 621 into the dock at the end of the day only to hear how everyone had a horrible day on the water, yet his clients smashed them. “Often, even if you miss that fish, you’ll trigger a double-header on the other side of the boat.” Technically Speaking - Targeting Walleye Fish in the top 25% of the water column “When fish keep coming unbuttoned, or a fish is barely moving a planer board, but you know it’s there, I’ll hit the rabbit button and take the stretch out real fast,” Robertson started. Running “S” patterns allows your crankbait to speed up and slow down, which can often trigger a bite as well as using the remote for his Minn Kota Ulterra Bow-Mount trolling motor. When you drop that probe, it will show you the true speed of the lure,” Robertson said. Sure, you can speed up and slow down to figure it out, but if you are going to spend a ½ hour making 200-yard passes and waste time with no bites- that’s inefficient. “I guarantee those anglers were either way above or below the fish or that crankbait was wobbling not enough or too much. What the angler neglects to take into consideration is that natural currents on the Great Lakes can speed baits up and slow them down. They can see the fish are still marking on their electronics without a bite. The fishermen will turn their boat to make a pass from the opposite direction.
Often, an angler will be the only boat on the lake, trolling through a school of walleye and the rods fire off. The most convenient time to monitor lure speed is when the lake is flat calm. His Humminbird Helix 10 Chirp Mega SI+ GPS G3N units have been carefully dialed so precisely that they’ll even display the probe from his X2 as it drops it down the water column towards the fish. Robertson is extremely cautious never to spook the fish he’s targeting, so he’ll drop the probe 5-feet short of where the fish are. If I’m jigging and I decide I have to troll, I can drop the probe beside the console just above the fish, and I will know exactly the speed my boat is traveling off.” He prefers to drop the probe beside the console to avoid interfering with any of the lines he has out the back of the boat, transducer wires, or his main or kicker motor. “Right now, I keep my X2 in the front rod locker runs on batteries.
“The whole point is that if you have a small boat, want to bring the unit into a buddies salmon boat, or couldn’t have or want downriggers, the X2 is perfect,” Robertson started. The result, for over two years, he worked with FishHawk to design an identical unit to the X4 but was fully portable. Robertson solved many of the issues he had with the original X4 unit by modifying it. Fish Hawk Electronics Fish Hawk X2 Trolling System Just because it’s cold doesn’t mean you have to go slow, and just because it’s warm doesn’t mean you have to go fast,” he said. Some days, they want it exceptionally slower or faster than we typically think what the norm is, and that can change hour to hour. “You need to use a Fish Hawk to know your true lure speed. “Just because the GPS which measures speed over ground says we are doing 1.8, doesn’t mean we are,” he said. Instead, the most critical component of his spring program is the true speed of the lure, which relies on the FishHawk X2 Trolling System to precisely measure. I pay very little attention to it,” Robertson said. “People look at water temperature and think of it’s the be all end all. Veteran walleye guide, Ross Robertson, has fished walleyes on the Great Lakes for 30-years, which has led him to some proven theories that should help you put more fish in the boat this spring. With unseasonably warm temperatures this past winter, many anglers already have their boats out of storage and ready to chase down some early spring walleye.
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