Mark Steffes
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I know we are all great fishermen, but I'm wondering what guy's would think are there best go to technic & what they would thinks is there weakest or worst technic. Also what they feel comfortable with but would need improvement on.
Srongest Technic- trolling any kind & dragging & pitching plactics
Needs imporving- pitch cranks to wingies
Weakest Technic- live bait rigging spinners
Edited by Mark Steffes (02/01/08 10:50 AM)
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walleyewacker18
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My strongest area would be livebait rigging and jigging. I love to use both of those techniques.
My weakest techniques would be casting cranks
My good area but need to improve on would be trolling open water. I have improved but need to flatten out the edges a bit more.
As everyone we are good at some techniques and not so good at others but to be totally honest we could all learn a trick or two and improve even at our best techniques!
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toothycritters
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strongest: casting cranks and spinnerbaits! I just love twitchin a crankbait!!!
needs improving: trolling and live baiting
weakest: jiggin, draggin and whatevering with plastics...
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Jason Halfen
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I love trolling anything. Longlining. Leadcore. 3-ways. Spinners. Love it all.
I am perfectly comfortable with a jig stick. Vertical, pitching, dragging, etc.
I strongly dislike livebait rigging. Strongly.
This year, I've decided to work on my open water trolling. Suspended piggies, watch out!
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Jason Halfen ~ IDO Pro Staff
Guided walleye and smallmouth bass fishing in western Wisconsin: JasonHalfenOutdoors.com
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Lip Ripper
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BROOKIE, THEY HAVE THOSE (SUSPENDING PIGGIES DOWN ON THE RIVER IN YOUR TOWN??? 
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Lip Ripper (aka Rob Stenger)
GameHide Pro Staff /
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Lip Ripper
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Strengths: Long Line Trolling, Open Water Trolling, Live Bait Rigging, Spinners, Corking, & Vertical Jigging.
Weakness: Hand Lining, Lead Core, Pitchin Plastics, Blades, Cranks, & River Fishing Period. 
Great Topic! 
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Lip Ripper (aka Rob Stenger)
GameHide Pro Staff /
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BfishN Tackle /
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Edited by Lip Ripper (02/01/08 02:31 PM)
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Everts Resort
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Quote:
Strengths: Long Line Trolling, Open Water Trolling, Live Bait Rigging, Spinners, Corking, & Vertical Jigging.
Weakness: Hand Lining, Lead Core, Pitchin Plastics, and Pitching Cranks, & River Fishing Period.
Great Topic!
Just the opposite of Lip Ripper for me. 
Pitchin blades for me,is my favorite.
Livebait rigging.... 
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James Holst
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Strengths: Anything to do with jigs in rivers, trolling anywhere, livebait rigging w/ 3ways, livebait rigging w/ sliding sinkers in current, casting cranks.
Weaknesses: lindy rigging in lakes. I'm bored in 5 minutes so I'll never be strong in this area. Slip bobbers.
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James Holst - In-Depth Outdoors TV Host
IDA Guides Guide Service
Ph. 507-271-0362
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Jeff Jensen
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Strong-casting cranks,anything with a jig,live bait rigging,3 ways,snappin spoons,blades and one eyes
Weak in the big water trolling bite,my patience is truly tested .
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walleye wisdom
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Every year i sit down and write out goals for which techniques i need to work on.
Best: Live bait presentations, finesse rigging and jigging.
Mediocre: Trolling cranks
Worst: Fishing plastics
Curious to learn: Planar boards
Another thing i'm going to try and learn more about are my electronics. There is a wealth of information to be gathered from these, between my hand held GPS, Sonar/GPS unit, i can really improve my fishing!
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drifter295
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my strongest technique I'm a masterbaiter
ok ok that was almost bad.....best at leadcore and longline trolling
needs improving baitcasting operation
weakest as far as feel jigging in deep water
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Rootski
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Can I claim strengths and weaknesses if I'm world reknown for NOT catching walleyes? 
Strengths....Bull headed determination. Cold, hot, rain, bugs, tuna boats, I don't care. Keep fishin'!
Weaknesses: The River. Rivers are so different than lakes it's amazing. I have a ton of stuff to learn yet.
Good question!
Rootski
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Every now and then its gettin' kind of hard to tell but I'm still alive and well
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supserdave
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Strengths=casting cranks, vertical jigging, and getting better at the pitching thing.
Weakness= live bait rigging, and especially northern Minnesota clear water lakes. I've been going up for a week for years, and still haven't figured the walleyes out up there
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plungepool
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Quote:
my strongest technique I'm a masterbaiter
ok ok that was almost bad.....
 I'd say we have a commedian in our midst 
As far as I can say I probabally don't give my self enough credit, But Here is what I feel I'm good with.
The Good  Pitching Plastics, Cranks, and Jigging live Bait.
The Bad  I have alot to learn in the above mentioned as far as boat position with how it relates to wingdams, very frustrating but I love the hard Thud of a walleye smacking a crank or jig as your reeling it off the face of a dam.
The Ugly I like trolling but have alot to learn as far asboat control. I have to be fishing with somone so I can play passenger rather than run the rig As I mentioned I am a student of the river and I'll never say I know it all cause I'm slowly picking up the techniques.
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Lenny Jamison
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I'd have to say my strengths are trolling and casting cranks and pitching.
I'd say my weaknesses are slip bobber and anything with weed walleyes.
My wife says my weakness is getting home from fishing on time.
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Lenny Jamison
"Gator Hunter"
lenny_jamison@yahoo.com
"You have to fish where they live....must be present to win."
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big G
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I'd say I am best at corking, and can drag a mean Lindy Rig.
Weakest would have to be trolling boards and pitching cranks. Not that I can't do it, but I don't enjoy it as much as sitting or drifting.
big g 
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Absolute2ks
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Oh WoW!
What little I Know.
One day at a time I guess.
JASON!!!!!!
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Joel Ballweg
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Strengths: Rivers & Reservoirs – At least 90% or more of my time is spent on these types of waters.
Boat control – it’s impossible to be really good at anything without becoming fluent in boat control first!
Jigging – live bait or plastics, vertical, dragging & casting.
(would love to get more time casting as its one of my favorites)
Trolling - bottom bouncers with live bait or plastics.
Crank baits suspended or on bottom.
Crawler harnesses behind bottom bouncers.
Vertical blading – Pretty good at vertical jigging blades. Not so good at casting them.
Wader fishing at night – Casting suspended crank-baits and jig/plastic combos in the spring & fall especially. Wish I could find the time and energy to do this as often as I used to!
Weaknesses: Natural lakes – Just don’t get a lot of time fishing them.
Live bait rigging – Not horrible at it, but needs improvement!
Lead core – Needs work and I plan on giving it a lot of attention this year.
Casting blade baits – Another one that’s going to get some serious attention this coming year.
Slip bobbering – I can do it but am not to crazy about it and don’t use it very often.
Sorry about the format of this reply. I did it in “Word” so that I could save it and refer back to it from time to time.
Good subject!
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JOEL BALLWEG - IDO FIELD STAFF
SAUK-PRAIRIE LIVE BAIT & TACKLE
www.lakewisconsinfishing.com
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Dustin Stewart
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I would consider my strengths to be all presentations that can be used on the river to catch walleyes except for the following.
Weakest to non existent for me would be lead line, hand-lining, planer boards in the river, and any kind of live bait fishing on a lake that is not right on the bank .
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Dustin Stewart-In-Depth Angling Pro-Staff
IN-Depth Angling Video Productions
dustin.stewart@in-depthoutdoors.com
In-Depth Angling Guide Service Ph.507-421-2346
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mendotaeye
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Strengths: Vertical Jigging, dragging, crawler harnesses on bouncers, long line trolling, casting cranks, in that order.
Needs work: planer boards, rigging, pitching plastics in rivers, vertical jigging blade baits.
Pathetic at best: pitching blades, reading big rivers and figuring out where to spend my time, finding fish mid summer in deep natural lakes.
Great subject.
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drewsdad
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Strengths: Dragging, pitching, jigging plastics, pitching blade baits. I give the credit here to James, Dustin, Deezee, MikeW, Dean, IDO, and St. Croix rods.
Needs work: 3-waying live bait or stickbaits, trolling with boards, live bait fishing in general.
Cluless: Leadcore, handlining.
dd
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angling dad
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Strongest: Rig fishing with any type of live bait
More work needed: Jig fishing
Weakest: Crankbait-presentation needs improving
Least favorite: Slip Bobber fishing-no patience for this type however I do it to catch big fish on real hard hit spots when alone-never in a crowd!!!!!!!
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Steve DeZurik
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Great post!
Strengths; Pitching plastics and cranks for smallies and walleyes in rivers, trolling cranks open water.
Weakness or dislikes; Livebait rigging and pulling livebait spinner rigs, slip bobbers..... 
Its obvious for most all of us how much confidence techniques come into play day in and day out on each outing. Figure the % of time you spend each day fishing your favorite technique before making a switch!
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Steve DeZurik
In-Depth Angling Staff
www.stevedezurik.com
steve.dezurik@in-depthoutdoors.com
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wimwuen
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Strongest - Casting Cranks, crank trolling sloughs, Open water trolling, harnesses, vertical jigging,
Competent but not a master - leadcore (1 year into it and hooked), live bait rigging, slip bobbering
Weakest - plastics (I run cranks so much I just don't spend much time with plastics) both dragging and pitching.
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Ben Garver
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Strengths: Live bait rigging, trolling both long line and lead, bottom bouncers, pitching cranks, verticle jigging, slip bobbering, and snap jigging.
Weaknesses: River fishing in general, pitching jigs, trolling open water with spinners, and casting blades.
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Ben Garver
Bass Pro Shops Pro Staff
I say we work 2 days and fish 5!!!
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Brad Juaire
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Great post - makes a guy think...
Strengths - open water trolling via crankbaits (planer boards, lead core, snap weights), verticle jigging
Need to improve - live bait rigging, dragging, 3-ways, pitching plastics, reading river systems
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Brad "Grifter" Juaire
IDO Field Staff
brad.juaire@in-depthoutdoors.com
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bone mover
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I can honestly say I am terrible at just about everything!!!
I enjoy ice fishing and am picking up a few tricks.
Plain and simple...I am terrible on the soft water. Hopefully I will talk a few of you in to showing me a trick or two down the road...
The truth hurts sometimes... 
Ted
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Fish TREMBLE at the mention of my name!
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Shrek
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Lindy rigging and bottom bouncing with spinners. I especially love bottom bouncing on big deep water rocky reefs.
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Wow, that was really scary and if you don't mind me saying, if that don't work, your breath will certainly get the job done.
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wkw
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I feel that my strengths are:
Boat control, 3-way rigs, long line trolling,vertical jigging,and casting cranks.
Weaknesses would include:
I am reluctant to change tactics when something isn't working.
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J Tomich
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strengths: Contour trolling, lead, shallow water trolling, pitching cranks, corks, pitching jigs,
Needs improvement(or should I say need to do more of): Lindy rigs, live bait rigging (definitely a bit boring for me)
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Lawrence Ecklor
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Rigging/jigging for best throughout the year.three way cranks 2nd. Worm harness trolling for worst through out the year
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Lawrence & Brian Ecklor
"It's all about time on the water" & “In fishing, words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.”
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curmudgeon
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Welcome back Lawrence! I haven't seen you post for a while. I found the info you provided very insightful and helpful.
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"How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain." - Homer Simpson
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Redneck
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Amen to that! Glad you are back with us Mr. Ecklor
Edited by Redneck (02/23/08 07:33 AM)
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Mark Steffes
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I thought I'd bring this one back to the top after another boating season. Too see if anyone has improved.
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moreyes
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Strongest for me, lindy rigging, pulling spinners, lakes I can do pretty good at, trolling and casting jigs and cranks.
I am learning to read rivers pretty decently, they still kick my  once in while
weakness, vertical jigging bladebaits
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moreyes
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After reading some of the responses, it appears that river guys have ADHD
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Most of my money is spent on fishing, fishing tackle and boats, the rest is wasted......Thanks KLH <'((^)){
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Briank
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We are talking walleyes here...right?
Strongest...anchoring with live bait...and I did once pull a mean three way on the St Croix.
Weakest...pretty much everything else. I do get this urge this time of year to learn pitching blades. I've always stayed away from them because I thought most fish were snagged...since I've be educated about blades and pitching them they sound interesting. Since the best P4 bite has been off of blades this last week...my urge has been rekindled.
Not ripping on the guys that only fish lakes...but since I've "discovered" the river... I've lost interest in them for open water fishing. Just too many different and larger fish in a river system.
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Wear it...Live with it!
Briank's Trophy Catfishing and Sturgeon Adventures
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Stuart
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Strongest,Enjoying every minute I spend fishing. 
Weakest,Making it through a day at work without talking fishing to my non fishing coworkers.
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Micah Witham
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strongest - pitching plastics, crank baits and trolling (long line).
moderate - dragging
weakest - I have no patience so I'm a terrible slip bobber guy unless there is plenty to drink and people to talk to, not very good at rigging or trolling spinners either.
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Tom Gursky
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Being one of the "old timers"...
Strengths...
Pitching/casting/jigging...plastics,blades, cranks etc...
Vertical jigging w blades or plastics, and drfiting light jigs tipped with live bait.
I dont like trolling as much but am well versed in the techniques...
Weakness...Like James, slip bobbering and dead sticking...don't have the patience
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Tom Gursky~Northwoods Adventures Guide Service
GameHide / St Croix Rods
BfishN Tackle Field Staff / ["May all your trophies be worthy of the Good Book"
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Fishinnut13
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My Best presentation is jigging, dragging, basically anything with a jig. I feel confident when using a jig.
I am ok with trolling cranks and harnesses and am average with Slip Bobbers. Still learning the ins and outs of each of these techniques.
I am not proficient with 3 way rigs or Lindy Rigs. I guess I just haven't tried them enough to get good at it.
I plan to learn more about Planer boards and using 3 way rigs and Lindy Rigs
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