How To Catch Summer Walleyes In Tough Conditions

Today we stare down some of the toughest summer walleye conditions...flat calm, hot, high skies....What do you do to get bit on these days? This video is all about how I fish when the fish do not want to bite. Summer walleye fishing can be challenging even in good conditions. When the fish are scattered and don't want to bite it can become very difficult. In this video I talk about what these conditions do to summer walleyes and how I catch them during a tough bite. Thanks for watching!
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[@curtadams3281]

I appreciate your information on walleye fishing! And the effort and time you are obviously putting into making the videos...I hope it is benefiting you enough to keep you doing what you do ! Thank you!

[@fidiusjwhoopie]

Loved it, thanks for sharing, looking forward to the upcoming Mn action

[@tobinlakeguideservices]

Had a good morning with the same conditions. You make some great videos Tom.

[@sgspirit798]

Thanks for all this sharing of techniques. I happened upon you a month ago and have watched ton of you vids. I am heading to Hayward next week and will be putting some of your tips in action. I am a long time lindy rig guy but with new electronics and new little techniques, I am hoping for more success if that method is called for. You are a great teacher and the videos are informative, fun and really laid back. You are my new fishing idol. Thanks man.

[@fishin2themax245]

Really appreciate your vids. Excellent info !👍

[@HuntsWorkshop]

Always appreciate the side imaging screenshots. Today's is more of what we typically see down here 2 hours south.

[@frankbarton5025]

Tom, thanks for the pointers. Was calm as could be this morning on my local lake. Came across some walleye on the bottom, hit spot lock and went to jigging a snap jig. Wammo! Got five out of the school using your technique!

[@jeffdonnell7269]

Wow man can I go fishing with you? You have made me such a better walleye fisher I live in Arkansas so the walleye are few and far between but! Since I started to watch your videos I have landed and stayed consistent throughout this entire fishing season. Thank you for the advice you have made a walleye fishing fool out of me! After all that I cooked one of them OMG best fish ever to eat, hands down.

[@aquaticthumb5193]

Thanks for putting this video out in August.

[@RushVoorhisOutdoors]

just what I needed to get this morning started

[@mikegreif6764]

Thought for a Tom Talk - We can send you screen shots of graphs or lakemaster maps and you pick some and tell us what you see and how you would approach it. Thanks much

[@joesteen9742]

All Tom. Video great! Pmytuming waiting for you

[@ThiccfellaNee]

Great looking walleye now I have a plan for the next time I go out

[@SEMIfishing]

Always dropping 🔥

[@kurtfredregill3324]

Great video great information thanks for information

[@calvinmonroe2408]

Great vlog buddy

[@batrobes]

Tom awesome video as always! Have you ever thought of doing a blooper video? I never see you lose a fish lol! Must be where the bleeps start lol

[@danielpritchard1465]

This would be awesome lol

[@PACK-ge5gu]

Excellent!

[@jamiehartzell5286]

Amazing video on tuff bites, question heavy boat traffic lakes will this presentation be the key to catching more fish?

[@taylorschaut4336]

Hey Tom just watched an old video of you going over weather and walleye and you talked about casting spinner rigs. Any chance you were ever going to make a video on that?

[@greyhunter9287]

great video! Tom I was wondering if you ever fish with the acme hyper-glide or do you only use the hyper-rattle?

[@jasonhuibers2315]

All my best walleye 28 and 30 inch I caught at similar type of day. Super hot, no wind and about 3pm. I'm usually sitting on a hump one side about 24ft deep and other side is about 8ft. I usually fish with leeches and on average pulling 16 to 30 inch walleye and 4 to 5lb bass from same spot. Has good rock structure where I fish

[@theamerican7131]

devils lake, north dakota checking in with a thumbs up

[@chrisgustafson9342]

A flat, hot, calm day Little 22 inch walleye Tom's Way is what I hope to get, only been getting just under legals in weather like that

[@bricechaplin4679]

What line do you use for walleyes? Love the Vids!!!

[@michaelschroeffel1459]

MR. TOM, your the man. So I started fishing Hyper Rattles using your snap drop method. Any tips on why my bottom treble hook seem to catch my leader? I am using 10 lb braid and 12 lb floro like you recommended. I did manage to catch a few walleye as well. Stay strong brother and tight lines.

[@timdanielson2836]

Looking to the MN trip !!

[@brettyoung3138]

Hey Tom, what line do you use on all your spin reels? Love the sound it makes when you're pulling them in!

[@antoncarlson9816]

Why doesn’t he get an equal amount of likes on all videos because they’re all extremely useful for beginners and possibly even pros

[@claudegagne2805]

Hot fish related but I love your dog. How did you train him/her to not jump off and swim? My little pup just wants to swim all the time. Thanks for the great videos.

[@craigwavra3495]

Went out this past weekend. I can tell you our lake did not like the aggressive spinning. We should have slowed down.

[@verdeanpetersen8350]

Please show your lindy rig setup, and colors. Great lesson

[@lindamoore1049]

This is Craig Moore thanks for all your videos very helpful what type of line do you use when you are drifting ?

[@matthewolson5676]

Just curious notice you been back trolling in the last two videos. Any reason why to back troll over using bow mount trolling motor? Better boat control? And how does side imaging look in comparison from back trolling to trolling forward? Do you switch to DI once fishing or switching back and forth between SI and DI. Just a couple of questions I've had after watching every video of yours!!! I could pick your brains for days!! Haha love your content keep it up.

[@stevebenson3024]

Tom just wondering if you ever used a livescope. Been using both the Hummingbird and the Garmin last year and this year unbelievable using the livescope with the 360. You don't look like your hurting not having one.

[@esoxinator968]

Hey Tom totally off topic but watched some of your old musky vids do you only go 20 to 30 feet back no matter how deep wen trolling

[@coleharvey1885]

Thank you gonna try this this weekend in Minnesota

[@TomBoley]

Good luck!

[@coleharvey1885]

@@TomBoley I have a place on Eagle Lake near Spicer MN

[@garrettorpin6584]

Tried this on Lake Vermilion, MN. It was tough. We had a hard time finding them on the west side of the lake.

[@jessjackson8958]

What is the tool holder in your Scotty rod holder?

[@donaldkrischke2457]

Tom can you add tall sizes to your shirts?

[@frasurechannel2653]

Hey Tom, I'm sure you've stated in the past, but what camera are you running on the bow tripod? Thank you sir, tight lines!

[@jeffdonnell7269]

I think it may be video

[@markh9532]

Do you ever try to fish the walleyes that bury themselves in the weeds on hot sunny days? In north central Minnesota a good percent of walleye stick in the weeds this time of year instead of the classic deep structures.

[@markh9675]

Cool name!

[@jessewahlin3603]

Thanks Tom! How long did you fish for on this day. Make it look so easy

[@TomBoley]

2 hrs

[@leewalters9238]

Repeat question. Is snap jigging productive when fish are suspended well above bottom?

[@TomBoley]

Within 6 or 7 feet probably

[@walkerl2482]

how slow is super slow? like .8 mph?

[@tedzipoy4460]

Recently found this channel. Your guidance and insight has helped me 10 fold. So thankful for this channel and your experience Tom. Fishing is always more fun when you're catching, and you help make that possible! Loved your rigging and technique for slip bobbering, jig raps, and spinners.

[@borhap399]

I'm curious if the lindy rig wasn't working today what would you have tried next?

[@TomBoley]

Spinners or jig crawler

[@mikegreif6764]

Then Vodka

[@jacobjoynson6993]

Probably won’t reply but what kinda reel you running ?

[@TomBoley]

Piscifun carbon x 2000

[@jimkimfishing8116]

Is there anything you do to prevent panfish from stealing your crawler when lindy rigging?

[@TomBoley]

Not really leeches area bit more resistant to panfish. I don't do it if there is a lot of small fish arpund

[@leekflower1]

Today the thieves were catfish and tiny perch. Those perch still swallowed a giant hook! At least the catfish were big enough for dinner...

[@jar895]

What does “picked up” feel like?

[@TomBoley]

A few hard taps the they run with it

[@PoppaRick]

Was this filmed today?

[@TomBoley]

Yesterday

[@hobbyhoundsmt5525]

One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish.

[@mbolt7575]

Love your channel. However, when you show your set up it’s not that good for people just learning. Too quick of a run through. Go slow from tip of pole to bait. You very thorough on how to fish though. Good vids

[@dennismosley9163]

Are u trolling

[@leekflower1]

Who thumbs down this??

[@blayze2019]

One day I too will have a $2000 fish finder and just drive around a lake till my fish finder finds them for me, then just drop lines on their heads will make fishing new lakes no fun

[@briansperry9431]

I hate ur noisey reels