SUPER EARLY Spring Walleye Fishing! (BEST TECHNIQUE)
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Mar 2, 2024
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There we go. I watched that happen. That was one of the right ones
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Woo, there we go. What is going on everybody? Welcome back to NBEdits. Today we are out here again on the Fox River
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It's a little bit later in the afternoon right now. I'm just going to go ahead and say right now we had a darn good morning of fishing
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I am out here with John Lehman from MnDak Outdoors and of course, Cody Solberg
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The official count for the day. What do we have? Chill, chill, chill, chill
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Guys, we had an awesome day out here today. I'm not going to waste too much time
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We are going to reverse back a few hours and jump right into today's video
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Awesome to get out here. This is our second trip out on the Fox. This is crazy early. I believe today is February 8th
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We just got out here on Monday, caught some walleyes and things picked up another notch out here today
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Get in there, Brad. There we go. Saw him come up on the live scope
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Just a little guy. There we go. First fish of the day
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Saw him zooming in on the old live scope. Nice little fish. I'm going to go ahead and get him back
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Just a shorty to start the morning off. Show you what we got that one on
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Got that pink lemonade tungsten jig. This is called the Meathead Jig from Frostbite
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We used this the other day while we were out here for our first send on the Fox and it did pretty well
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Again, we are just vertical jigging right over the edge. We're out deep. We're sitting in about 25 feet of water here
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Staying pretty much between about 23 to 26 feet of water. We are seeing more fish on live scope already this morning than we did probably our entire trip last time
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So that one, that one was fired up. I saw him coming in on the left from behind the boat here and came up and crushed it
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We're going to see if we can get another one. Hey, there he is
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Little guy. Hello friend. There we go, fish number two. Minnow pops out
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Boom, right in the snout. I like that. We're looking for something a little bit bigger though
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Thanks for stopping by. Two fish already. They seem a little bit more active than what we were seeing a couple days ago while we were out here
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Let's see if I can salvage this minnow or not. He's damaged
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That's what we're going to call him, damaged. We're going to get a new minnow
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We might mess around with a couple different things out here today. We might try some plastics and some other stuff
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Maybe some hair. Maybe throw some hair jigs. We'll see. Let's grab another minnow and get back down there
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Hopefully this fathead will catch me a fat walleye. Pretty simple technique
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Marking a couple fish on live scope. We're just pitching it out 5 to 10 feet from the boat here
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Bounce it right off bottom. Pick it up. Maybe only about a foot or two is all you need
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Sometimes less than that even. Chase it. Come on buddy. Chase it
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I know you're there. There he is. Got him. Watch that one
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This is a better one too. Want to grab a net Cody
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It's a good fish. There we go. There we go
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That one we watched on the live scope. Pitched it out. Thanks buddy
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Nice net job there. Alrighty guys. There we go. Take a look at that
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Beauty of a fish. Small little pops off bottom. That one came up and choked the old tungsten jig
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We're going to grab a quick picture and get him back. That's a solid fish
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Probably right around that 19 to 20 inch mark. Hello. It's okay
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Yeah it feels decent. Oh. Whoa. Well. Another one came up there and
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crushed the old tungsten jig. Just a little guy. See you later
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Yeah Cody. What's going on? I don't know what's happening. How come this kid is beating you today
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What happened the last time we were out? I guess I forgot how to fish
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Whoever was not playing cod sat on the... Oh boy. There's one. Sorry I stole your fish
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What? Brandon is just on some today. Hey. Yeah but I'm catching dinks. We had one nice one right
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Yeah you did. That's right. That's right. We're catching fish. That's all that matters
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Alrighty boys. Well it came up. We were telling stories. I ended up stealing that fish from John
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I kind of feel bad because I snuck right up behind you and I just stole that fish from you
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It's okay. I'm putting the juice on. Oh he's switching to a meathead tungsten jig too
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20 feet in front of the boat. Yeah we think she's something else. Oh. Hello
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Oh my god. We out here. I'm not sure what the boys are doing
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Wait wait wait. What is this? What is going on there? There's some like fuzz on this thing
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Was that on the bottom or in this walleye's mouth? I don't even know
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That is interesting. But got ourselves another one. We're clapping out here boys
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I'm not sure what the guys in the front of the boat are doing. I mean I was up there earlier clapping
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Now I'm in the back of the boat because I figured you know what
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We got to let John laymen. We got to let the Mindak boys
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try to see some fish on the old live scope. But yeah you know what
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I guess it don't matter where we're at. We're just hucking and pucking down there
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Getting them in the boat. The OG line from Brad. I haven't busted that one out in a minute
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I don't know where that one came from. What do you mean fuzz
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Fuzz like the inside of a glove. Like white fuzz. I don't know
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It's a river. Anything's possible. Yeah. Okay hang on. Hang on
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So what are we hooking into? Because that wasn't a fish. It's more fuzz
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Look at this. Come here. There's like fuzz. What? Yeah maybe there's like a coat
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or something down there that I hooked into. I don't know. Atta boy
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I think we are going to retire the old blade bait. We gave it an honest effort
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Tried for, I've probably been using this for a solid 45 minutes now at least
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Putting her away John. Putting her away. You just had to try it
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Yeah because if the blade bait bite is on which I know it's crazy early
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so it shouldn't be but if it was that would be fun
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This is definitely a bait that I'm going to come back to a lot this spring
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One of my favorite things to throw. Get a good reaction bite out of these
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walleyes. It's just a little bit early but that's the whole point of
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this thing. When the fish are lethargic and they're not biting cold water this
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thing will still get them to trigger. Well I've been dabbling with a couple
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different techniques today and we decided we're going back to good old reliable
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Jigging a minnow. We tried throwing some hair. Tried going up shallow
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and throwing hair as well. Also did try a blade bait and you know
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it's just not there right now. Potentially could definitely catch a fish on it
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you never know but jigging a minnow seems to be doing the trick so we're going to stick to it
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because that's what's catching fish. There's one. That was pretty much right away
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Um, no it's okay. Flipper. But yeah like I was saying, going back to
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good old reliable because it's working. I'm going to get this guy back
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into the water. Wow, that is uh, that's crazy. That didn't take long. We decided
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to start another pass. Went back up and uh, yeah that took about
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60 seconds, not even. There's two minnows left. Wait that's it? Yeah
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Only two minnows left, that's sad. Might have to cut things short. Or you know
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I haven't tried a plastic yet. Maybe we'll switch to a plastic if we run out of minnows
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But, that's tough because I'll tell you what, live bait really is working good
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That's a good one too. Oh there he goes, quick release. You got that one
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That was a good one too. You got him. What the hell was that
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Oh it's fishing line. Ah, that's tough. Oh the fox. You just never know
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what you're going to catch in the fox. Never know what you're going to get
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The fox is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get
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Sorry for ruining your New Year's Eve party Lieutenant Dan. Her mouth tastes like cigarettes
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There you go Cody. Yeah, I got that one on a plastic
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right now. Really, you switched to a plastic? Oh yeah, you did switch to a plastic
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I kind of forgot about that. I switched to a plastic because we're running out of minnows
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That one demolished it. Come on. There we go. I watched that happen
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That was one of the right ones. I watched that happen. That's a good one
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You want to grab that? Hashtag on him. Hashtag he he. Thanks John
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Woo, there we go. Brad, you're a beast bro. Not a bad one
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It's like fat. Yeah, it's a fat one. Not super long, but good fish
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Wow, that one came up and throttled it. I noticed earlier this morning
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the rods were loaded when you'd pick it up off bottom when you had a fish. Now
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lately, sun came out, and the last two fish that I've had
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actually hit it on the way up. So that was pretty cool. Very nice fish
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Came up and choked that meathead jig. Gone. We like that. We're going to grab a quick pick
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get this one back in the water. Alright, hook is out. Slammed that meathead jig. Choked her down
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They're good. Let's get this guy back. They get much, much bigger
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Full of energy. Alright. Wow, that was awesome. I don't know how much longer we're going to stay out here
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Probably going to be one of the last fish of the evening here, but we've had a good day
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out here so far. It's been a lot of fun. Tried a couple techniques. Still
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live bait has been doing the trick. As things get warmer, things are going to progress. We're going to have more fish
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coming up river here. Things are going to get pretty heated here very quick. We've got some warm weather
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Conditions are looking good. We're going to have a little rain this evening, so that's one of the reasons why
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we're going to be heading out earlier than we want to. Everyone's getting out here. There's more
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boats every day. We're having fun with it. One right below you, John
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There's one right below you. Six or seven feet behind the transducer
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There you go. Call them out. Atta boy. Got him. See ya
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Well, guys, just got the boat on the trailer. We had an awesome day out here again
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This was a lot of fun. We got into some walleyes. Fairly similar techniques
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but today did get a little bit better, more aggressive of a bite out there
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I would say all of us did, like I said, just a smidge better than we did
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the last time we came out. Things are going to progressively get better and better as the bite goes on
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Things are going to start to warm up. I think we got up to 50 degrees here today
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which is crazy. Again, it's February 8th. I'm not used to this, guys. This is the
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craziest... I almost want to call it spring, but this is the craziest winter
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we've ever experienced. It feels like spring, that's for sure. I'm going to keep things short
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Thank you guys so much for watching today's video. If you guys have any questions for us
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make sure to leave it down in the comment section below. If you guys are looking to book a trip out
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here on the Fox, make sure to get a hold of this guy, Cody Solberg
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because I'll tell you what, this guy, I'll say it every time, he's a stick
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He got me on fish today. He's able to put you on some fish as well
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What did you think of the bite today? It's getting better. It's still slow. There's a lot
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of stuff that has to happen yet. We need some rain. We got current going in the river to push
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some new fish in. There's a lot of resident fish around right now. It's fun. We're fishing in February
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right? Can't complain, but next couple weeks, it's only going to get better. Again, guys, we had a blast
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out here today. Shout out to John for making the trip all the way here, not only
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to do some spring fishing, but what else are we doing, John? What's the
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plan right now? We're going to shoot some squirrels. Some squirrels? Oh, yeah. A little small game
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hunting. A little small game hunting? Hee, hee. That's crazy, guys. That's how early it is. We are still
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able to go out and do some small game hunting because, well, it's
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early February. Usually, we would not be able to do that because the season
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closes on February 29th. We are going to go do a little small game hunting. That's part of the reason why
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