How to Catch Pre-Spawn 'Eyes on Blades & Rattle Baits - In-Depth Outdoors TV Season 8, Episode 20
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- James Holst and In-Depth Outdoors Field Staffer Eric Rehberg kick off the open water broadcast season on the Mississippi River at Red Wing, MN. We encourage our viewers to subscribe and comment on videos you enjoy, or trips you would like to see.
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Thank you for the knowledge🙏💪🏼🤘🏼💯
It's so nice to see guys actually go through the baits, presentations, gear and location. And answering questions from guys here on TH-cam is extremely nice to see as well. I'm a new subscriber and fan.
Ok this is the 3rd video showing Rippin Raps killing it. I'm sold. I'm getting some.
James is the best. He not only shows you what is going on but, describes in detail how he is dong it. Thanks, really a great series of shows. I love my Marcum 6 fish finder!!!
Love them Blade Baits!
Awesome video. My buddy and i was there the same day you guys were filming. We where down river and was catching walleyes and saugers on lipless cranks also. My best lure that day was a Xcalibur lipless crank red craw color. My buddy was using the same one on your video both worked great.
16:22 you had the fish hopping into the boat hehe
Great show guys !!! Good to see Eric again too !!!
Red Wing represent ! 👏 just moved there in august
Beautiful area with some awesome fishing. Congrats!
Was fishing last spring like this, 38 boats stacked on top of each other by 9:00 in the morning... funny how every fish you guys caught the boats moved closer... how did you guys get all the walleyes in the river under your boat? LOL. It's almost as funny to me as the guy that drills holes in the ice 3 feet from your shanty....tight lines!!
How close do you allow other boats come to our boat?
Great video, living the dream, getting paid to fish from sun up to sundown.
Another awesome video
Great show James and Eric.
awesome video I subbed. ..great videos. ..great tips thanks
Awsome video
How deep were you fishing the Rip n Rap in the first 10 minutes of the show? Also did you bait the blade bait or just use it as is?
Were you tied straight braid to lures
James, Have you guys thought about doing a Tennessee River walleye bite down here in TN? Walleye here are very large and our bites are usually a little ahead of the midwest bite. I live in Knoxville and have had one of my best quality walleye years last year. Going to get into this spring bite soon. Water temp hit 40degrees this past week. Also, where you are at I see current, it looks like you are at a dam where they are generating water. If so, what was the flow like?
Hey james in this video you used a #7 rippin rap and i noticed you had your snap connected to the ring and not directly to the bait. Does it matter where you hook your snap whether it be direct or the ring?
James always connects to the ring with a snap. Could you tie direct to the ring? Absolutely. I know he uses the snap so he can quickly change color and sizes and using the snap doesn't seem to hurt the action of the lure in any way.
nice fishing
Would love to see how you would fish below Gavin's point dam in Yankton,SD These tactics work great everywhere but there. It's infested with spoonbill and every cast live bait or plastics is a nightmare
Hey guys awesome video! Would you mind sharing what kind of blade bait that is that you're using.
Hi Michael - the guys were using a blade bait Eric makes for his own personal use. That said every shop along the river sells a similar blade and they all work.
When pitching jigs.., what is the best type of line to use
Is there a certain water temperature that you wait for in the spring before you do something like this?
Temps of 38 - 42 degrees typically signal the start of this type of bite.
I love using ripping raps. there awesome
Rapala baits are the best they always catch me fish
okay that was good to the second break I did learn a couple of things you could talk a little more about boat positioning with that style of fishing I have to think that its critical to get right.
Hi, we replied to another one of your comments and in regards to boat placement you will want to again look for current seams.
Nice
white goo, the sign of spring walleye, my carharts are stained up from years of spawning fish
what is your favorite artificial bait for walleyes
Rapala's, or if we are talking plastics we use B Fish N Tackle Co.
Hey guys. What kind of rods were you guys using with the shimano ci4+?
James was using a St. Croix 6'9" Medium Light Legend Extreme. Eric was using the same length and action but built the rod himself off of a St. Croix blank.
where did you get the net
nice eyes
to third break good but talk more about the current breaks how to read them what to look for how the bait works in that particular current???
re you picking up specific fish on your electronics and fishing them?
When you are fishing a river, you want to look for current seams. Fish will sit in the low current areas, and attack bait in high current areas. The area that separates these two types of currents is a "Current Seam." You will notice the slack water and the flowing water, that is ideally what you are looking for. There is no real "spot" in a river, there will be areas that hold fish, the river is consistently is moving and the water depth changes with changes from the dam, rain, etc. James talks about this a little at 5:49. For more info, check out www.in-depthoutdoors.com/.
Cant help but notice you didn’t fish the other bank... why?
It's not a good idea to leave the fish do their job during spawn season? In Quebec, it is illegal to fish during that time from April 1st to May 9th.
But normal rivers have currents, and sunken trees, cold temperatures, etc
talk about pre-spawn right
Pre Spawn walleyes love it
First
okay first break why not talk about presentation right away you gave me a depth but no speed ? are you counting the lure down of far behind the boat?
We are fishing Rapala Rippin Raps as well as Blade Baits. More info at 5:29. Find the bottom, pop the bait up, and repeat. We are not necessarily fishing one specific depth, we are more or less covering water by casting and covering a variety of depths and flows.