Right on bud darn nice fish. Love the looks of that table full of fine fish, you guys enjoy it.

Never really tried the dropshot set up a whole lot, I know I should I know a couple guys that use it quite successfully. I use bottom bouncers a fare amount with some success.  I find tossing a jig tipped with a leach and slowly working the bottom so similar to dropshot.

Ever try a floating jighead & minnow?

How do you find drop shotting compared to slip bobber fishing. Both keep your lure above the weeds.

My main concern with drop shotting walleye is that they are often very subtle biters unlike bass. Walleye like to suck in their food during these subtle bites and this is not possible with the drop shot rig. Hence I have tended to use a perch rig for this instead.

I tend to agree with you in this. I use slip bobbers a lot for eyes, next to tossing jigs then trolling diving baits slip bobbing would be #3 on my list. When walleye are slow they don't seem to like a lot of movement. With a small chop going on on the surface it's enough movement to entice a bite. Have landed many many big eyes off a slip bobber. I guess the advantage of drop shotting would be if you are on heavy sloped banks this will allow you to maintain a constant distance from the bottom as in bobbers they can drift off a ledge and you can end up 10' off the bottom well of the target zone.

I find the drop shot works well when there is a little moss or debris on the bottom so it keeps your lure or bait just off bottom and out of the weeds for the walleye to take down. 

I tried the leach trapping several years ago in a few ponds, worked pretty well.  I'm wondering if you have any tips.  Sounds like you have much more success than me.  Like what depth are you throwing it into the water and what are you using for bait?  What's you set up.  Any tips would be greatly appreciated.  Also what kind of water body are you trapping in?  Sough?  Fish present or absent?  Thanks so much for all your help.  May have to give it a try again next time I'm out there!

         I'm fairly new to it and to be honest I just chose a body of water that was on the way to work so I could burn company fuel to do the setting for the most part ha.  It's a fairly large and shallow slough with lots of dense vegetation around the edges, before the first trap was set you could see the buggers swimmin around in the cover.  Beef liver has worked well for bait in a coffee container with holes drilled in the ends for the leeches to get in.  Haven't had to throw more than ten feet from shore so far but I don't know if that will change with warming water.  There is no fish present other than minnows.

Ever try a floating jighead & minnow?

        I have if your thinking the lindy rig style and it does work really well.
        I find the dropshot just a bit quicker to tie and love how it presents the bait so natural with a bare hook.  Lately I've been stealing an idea from an AO article where you substitute that bottom weight for a jig head so your fishing two different depths, it's amazing how often the fish will take the top bare hook and how well the rig outfishes just a plain jig by itself. 
        Very versatile as well, you can cast it, drift it, or just jig it under the boat.  Lots of times doing nothing is best I find.

Great pics...right on. 

I'm going to try this technique on brookies next week . Just ordered dropshot rod and reel from cabelas and have been wanting to try this out for sometime on brookies and maybe lakers . The brookies I hooked into last Friday were loaded up on caddis fly casings and leaches .

grats on your Eye's and learning a new technique

thanks for sharing

David :-}

          Pretty darn good haul of brookies there Dark Wing right on.

Awesome stuff JR, those are nice lookin eyes for sure.
That's a busy looking boat lol, I remember the days.
Thx again for the pics.

Great report and great pics..

Two thumbs up..