How to Fish Swimbaits for Summer Walleyes - Walleye Fishing

Swimbaits are one of the most versatile baits for all species, everything eats a swimbait. In this video I walk through the rod/reel, line, baits and cadence that I use when fishing this way. Ripping plastics excels in the summer period. If you haven't had much confidence in plastics this video should really help you out. Thanks for watching and please subscribe and leave some comments below on what you would like to see. Thanks
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  • @MrBloosBoy
    @MrBloosBoy5 жыл бұрын

    Yes, thanks for discussing your rig set up. Very helpful. I love to fish swim baits but have never snap fished them. I am going to give it a try.

  • @jcwilky
    @jcwilky5 жыл бұрын

    That was awesome and some good sized walleyes! Sweet!

  • @charlesscarborough7424
    @charlesscarborough74244 жыл бұрын

    Love the content......you are informative and entertaining. Thanks for letting us ride along.

  • @markohmstead5855
    @markohmstead58555 жыл бұрын

    Very cool as always . thanks for the knowledge.

  • @tonys1641
    @tonys16415 жыл бұрын

    Thanks again for the great info Tom!

  • @ksoutdoorsports
    @ksoutdoorsports5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! Very informative all we need to know about swim bait video. Mille Lacs has some beautiful Walleye's.

  • @DirtyJobsGuy1
    @DirtyJobsGuy14 жыл бұрын

    Such a great teacher! I have watched dang near every video you have made!

  • @carloshlick3575
    @carloshlick35754 жыл бұрын

    Great video, like said before perfect balance of information/entertainment. A killer technique for the entire open water season. Thanks for the great content

  • @jeffwenrick7682
    @jeffwenrick76825 жыл бұрын

    Tom, you have finally struck the perfect balance of information and fish catching footage. Absolutely the perfect informational video about a technique that I have never seen before. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with the rest of us. I will be trying this technique out tomorrow on Lake Erie.

  • @nobert6318

    @nobert6318

    5 жыл бұрын

    How did it work on Erie?

  • @jeffwenrick7682

    @jeffwenrick7682

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@nobert6318 Hey Nick, there were 3-4 footers on the lake and I was drifting like 1.2 mph, but I used the swimbait on a 1/2 oz jighead and casted downwind. To my surprise I did catch a walleye, a perch and a few sheephead. It was hardly the right conditions, but the technique still worked. I can't wait to try it under better conditions.

  • @bobkirkson
    @bobkirkson4 жыл бұрын

    Just awesome information to absorb!!!! This guy is awesome keep up the great work Tom 👍

  • @thedutchfisherman7078
    @thedutchfisherman70784 жыл бұрын

    Tom Boley...as always perfect information and instruction video. Thanks for all the effort you put in to show us all these awesome video's! 👍👍👍 Kindest regards.

  • @FCPFishing
    @FCPFishing5 жыл бұрын

    Love the swim bait fishing!

  • @jcwilky
    @jcwilky5 жыл бұрын

    that was awesome!! Great footage and always best when you catch as you demonstrate the technique. Trying it this weekend. Cheers

  • @briantix7693
    @briantix76935 жыл бұрын

    Great tip, better than shiners! Ripping not always needed I found, they pick them up off bottom. Thanks Man!

  • @FishDonkey
    @FishDonkey5 жыл бұрын

    Nice video. Very informative too! Can't wait to get out there and get hooked up!

  • @katieoconnell4559
    @katieoconnell45595 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for showing the graph on most of your vids!!

  • @weaversbentrods
    @weaversbentrods5 жыл бұрын

    awesome video. gotta love that reaction bite

  • @AydenHart928
    @AydenHart9285 жыл бұрын

    Good job love the informational videos

  • @Big88Country
    @Big88Country5 жыл бұрын

    Awesome! Very nice walleye! I live in NC and have taken a few trips into Canada on a fly in only secluded lake out of Earfalls. That was about 10 years ago and I used big swim baits and had great luck using them back then. First year I went it was still snowing on us in June and I almost froze to death being from North Carolina. The guys I went with all worked for Johnsonville.

  • @sawfishv6565
    @sawfishv65653 жыл бұрын

    Great detailed info! Thanks

  • @pbettin21
    @pbettin215 жыл бұрын

    If you watch most fishing shows it like they don’t want to fully explain what they’re doing so they don’t give away all their techniques or something. Thank you for explaining in depth different techniques. Sub’d

  • @DairylandLegends
    @DairylandLegends4 жыл бұрын

    Great content, Tom! I love seeing what type of rod, reel, and line that you are using! I think it’s very important! Keep it up!

  • @samwright8307
    @samwright83075 жыл бұрын

    love it as always, information is gradeA and gotta love some mille lacs love which you always show

  • @TomBoley

    @TomBoley

    5 жыл бұрын

    thanks for watching

  • @milehigh3054
    @milehigh30545 жыл бұрын

    You are diffenantly my favorite walleye KZread fisherman.. thank ya.

  • @TomBoley

    @TomBoley

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for watching

  • @NortherIke
    @NortherIke5 жыл бұрын

    Awesome!

  • @timothymoriarty373
    @timothymoriarty3735 жыл бұрын

    Love your vids and how instructional and informative you make them on top of fishing for Walleye I’ve been trying to target them in TableRock Lake in Missouri My son and I happened to find them around a bridge piling feeding on shad in 54 FOW The bite went to zilch after two weeks so now we’re trying other spots now to find the baitfish We are going to try your slip bobber tactics and see what we can hit We don’t have spotlock so will throw a marker and make drift attempts with the bobbers It’s a deep body of water lots of rock ledge shores falling off into really deep water Still Learning our Hummingbird and wanting to upgrade to a Helix 12

  • @knottedup3711
    @knottedup37115 жыл бұрын

    Great video! 👍

  • @timmyconnelly402
    @timmyconnelly4025 жыл бұрын

    Hi Tom. I want a boat just like that so bad might take me a year or too but IAM so gonna get it done, thanks for the great videos !!!

  • @codymartin9703
    @codymartin97034 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the info!!!

  • @letitgo8336
    @letitgo83365 жыл бұрын

    Top notch Tom always enjoy your videos

  • @TomBoley

    @TomBoley

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for watching

  • @rayg3074
    @rayg30745 жыл бұрын

    good info thanks

  • @jimfang2090
    @jimfang20905 жыл бұрын

    good lesson, thank you

  • @TomBoley

    @TomBoley

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for watching

  • @MNbassing
    @MNbassing5 жыл бұрын

    Badass video dude

  • @gr8_22-15
    @gr8_22-155 жыл бұрын

    Great informative vid man

  • @TomBoley

    @TomBoley

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thanks

  • @jonrausenberger7419
    @jonrausenberger74195 жыл бұрын

    !!!!!! SWEET VID !!!!

  • @TomBoley

    @TomBoley

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for watching

  • @northwoodsnelson3852
    @northwoodsnelson38525 жыл бұрын

    Awesome info Tom ! Caught my New PB Walleye on the big pond after watching your last Spring walleye Vid on jigging techniques, Such a Fun bite !

  • @TomBoley

    @TomBoley

    5 жыл бұрын

    Good work

  • @scotchyelper3402

    @scotchyelper3402

    5 жыл бұрын

    The allantic ocean?

  • @michaelaskey6130
    @michaelaskey61305 жыл бұрын

    It was a pleasure to meet you out on mille lacs . You sure make fishing look easy . Hope someday we can get on the water together and put some fish in the boat.

  • @TomBoley

    @TomBoley

    5 жыл бұрын

    Good meeting you. Enjoy vacation.

  • @michaelaskey6130

    @michaelaskey6130

    5 жыл бұрын

    My 4 year old son caught a 29 inch walleye on a drift yesterday morning with his little ugly stick push button rod . He set the hook and reeled it in all by himself. He wouldn't let me touch his rod . Really proud of the boy. We did really well drifting leeches and trolling purple shad raps or purple flicker minnows . Hope the Hayward bite is hot for ya this week. Take care bud.

  • @lognload
    @lognload5 жыл бұрын

    Awesome video, been looking into walter fishing lately normally just a bass guy.

  • @TomBoley

    @TomBoley

    5 жыл бұрын

    Good luck.

  • @MsPrincesspaulina
    @MsPrincesspaulina5 жыл бұрын

    Hey Tom!! What kind of rod, reel, line are you using?? lol You said you get asked about it on every video so I thought I'd do my part and ask. lol Yeah, I know, 10,000 comedians out of work and your stuck with me. Keep up these great teaching videos.

  • @BenPlass
    @BenPlass3 жыл бұрын

    I've been looking for an informative, "fluff-free" fishing channel to learn how to be a better fisherman. This is a great channel. Thank you Tom. I fish Winnebago mostly, I think I'm going to give this a try. Any special time of year for swim baits?

  • @eileenhudson9140
    @eileenhudson91405 жыл бұрын

    Great info 👍. Love your info on type of line an especially how to use fish the bate an how the combination produces, once again great job. Do you ever do one on fresh water strippers?

  • @ChrisKingAngling
    @ChrisKingAngling4 жыл бұрын

    Awesome vids! So true that you need to trigger strikes some days with plastics versus just swimming them back to the boat or shore.

  • @TomBoley

    @TomBoley

    4 жыл бұрын

    Plastics day in day out get be more fish

  • @ChrisKingAngling

    @ChrisKingAngling

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@TomBoley Hey Tom. I'm going to start guiding in the near future and was wondering if you could send some specs on your boat.

  • @RushVoorhisOutdoors
    @RushVoorhisOutdoors5 жыл бұрын

    hahaha would have loved to watch this video about a week ago LOL

  • @danieljohnson327
    @danieljohnson3275 жыл бұрын

    great show dude . your a dude.

  • @TomBoley

    @TomBoley

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for watching

  • @S1nc3r3T34rz
    @S1nc3r3T34rz5 жыл бұрын

    Hey Tom what was the simms jacket you were beginning in the video? Is it the 2018 challenger?

  • @V-man88
    @V-man884 жыл бұрын

    Aye man, any tips for fishing the great lakes, specifically Traverse city/sleeping bear national lakeshore. Most people just go out for salmon and lake trout/smallies, but i gotta believe that theres some walleye out there. You probably get alot of questions, so ill keep asking. Fish on!

  • @darealist5412
    @darealist54125 жыл бұрын

    New sub here. Wouldn't mind hearing some tactics for reservoir eyes.

  • @williammawk1720
    @williammawk17205 жыл бұрын

    Im a Columbia River walleye fisherman but i have never tried jigging a swimbait but will give it a try now. I couldn't quite tell, were you anchored, drifting or under some sort of power?

  • @robertrodriguez891
    @robertrodriguez8915 жыл бұрын

    Nice vid. What kinda jig head are you using?

  • @WesleyKennedy
    @WesleyKennedy5 жыл бұрын

    What are you looking for when you decide to use this technique? Is it time of year/weather driven or are you seeing certain baitfish, schools or structure on your electronics that you Target with this technique?

  • @jeremyanaya5102
    @jeremyanaya51025 жыл бұрын

    Great video! Swimbaits are my favorite. Do you ever just cast and retrieve with swimbaits or do you typically rip em?

  • @TomBoley

    @TomBoley

    5 жыл бұрын

    I don't fish them that way much. Except for smallmouth

  • @outdoorsman9384
    @outdoorsman93845 жыл бұрын

    Tom can i do this technique in lake Erie in 40 ft

  • @erikcalhoun2799
    @erikcalhoun27995 жыл бұрын

    Could this technique work in the grass/reeds as well? Maybe have to rig it differently?

  • @josephdurkin8180

    @josephdurkin8180

    4 жыл бұрын

    You know they make weedless swimbait hooks right?????

  • @doogyjay1
    @doogyjay15 жыл бұрын

    Im catching walleye down here in GA. They are so much thicker than what I see caught up north. I wonder if its a bait thing of a dna thing.

  • @sebastienmalo6554
    @sebastienmalo65545 жыл бұрын

    Whats is your best depht To snap jigging thank you

  • @nicholaslindberg4278
    @nicholaslindberg42785 жыл бұрын

    Are you spot locked or are you still trolling and if you are trolling at what speed? Snap jigged a limit of walleyes on Gull last week with your jogging rap video advice. Love the videos

  • @TomBoley

    @TomBoley

    5 жыл бұрын

    Spotlocked. Good work!

  • @johnherman8861
    @johnherman88615 жыл бұрын

    Wheres "out here"? Would these work on Winnebago, if so where on Winnebago?

  • @143366220798
    @1433662207985 жыл бұрын

    Do you ever put a worm on the hook

  • @johnwalker9388
    @johnwalker93883 жыл бұрын

    Tom love your videos what kind of super glue is that gorilla

  • @terrancebeach3025
    @terrancebeach30255 жыл бұрын

    Would this technique work early June in Wisconsin? Lake I fish most is at average about 6.5 feet? Anchor on ipilot and cast rock piles in the lake?

  • @TomBoley

    @TomBoley

    5 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely

  • @rickfascinato9684
    @rickfascinato96845 жыл бұрын

    Tanned hands,lots of time on the water for sure

  • @garymolson4441
    @garymolson44414 жыл бұрын

    Love these videos, Tom. In many of them, including this one at :15, 3:35, & 9:29, you like to say '? off, fish on' when you hook up. I just can't seem to make out what that first word is. Anyone? Thanks.

  • @harleysmith3895

    @harleysmith3895

    3 жыл бұрын

    hes saying “hooked up”

  • @johnwilkening5262
    @johnwilkening52625 жыл бұрын

    u ever notice the walleyes, look like there starving at mille, lacs? they always look so skinny, or is that from them trying to get through the gill nets?

  • @TomBoley

    @TomBoley

    5 жыл бұрын

    Seems to be a year to year thing. Also they are just about as thin as they can be this tome of year

  • @BrettHutman
    @BrettHutman5 жыл бұрын

    What water temp would you be looking for to start fishing this technique?

  • @TomBoley

    @TomBoley

    5 жыл бұрын

    50 to 80

  • @nickcampbell9258
    @nickcampbell92585 жыл бұрын

    Something about fishing huge lakes like that turns me off I love fishing my cover in smaller bodies of water

  • @TomBoley

    @TomBoley

    5 жыл бұрын

    I am the opposite

  • @nickcampbell9258

    @nickcampbell9258

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@TomBoley probably because we both grew up doing them, it's like smoking a pack of reds your whole life and switching to menthal lol

  • @outdoorsman9384
    @outdoorsman93845 жыл бұрын

    Tom how long does it take for that crazy glue to dry on swim bait

  • @outdoorsman9384

    @outdoorsman9384

    5 жыл бұрын

    No kidding

  • @john1josjohn1jos
    @john1josjohn1jos5 жыл бұрын

    Do you use this technique while anchored, drifting or trolling? Thanks great video, too bad we can't keep any fish anymore.

  • @lukejohnson7825
    @lukejohnson78255 жыл бұрын

    When would you switch to a split tail rather than a paddle tail?

  • @nolzgaming5542

    @nolzgaming5542

    5 жыл бұрын

    Luke Johnson I typically fish a split tail in colder water temps and once the water hits the 60° mark then switch to a paddle tail. Not an expert by an means but that’s what has worked well for me!

  • @TomBoley

    @TomBoley

    5 жыл бұрын

    Interchangeable

  • @lilplayboy717
    @lilplayboy7175 жыл бұрын

    Bro you need to quit wearing long sleeves in the sun that tan line was killing me

  • @bradencherney507
    @bradencherney5075 жыл бұрын

    Get tip on the crazy glue!

  • @lucdestrampe1335
    @lucdestrampe13355 жыл бұрын

    What rod are you using

  • @TomHubba

    @TomHubba

    4 жыл бұрын

    St Croix Mojo Bass Spinning Rod

  • @AnthonyXiong
    @AnthonyXiong5 жыл бұрын

    Shout out to Jason Brenic for the Piscifun Carbon X woot woot 🙌

  • @TomBoley

    @TomBoley

    5 жыл бұрын

    Dudes the man

  • @joebrings5817
    @joebrings58175 жыл бұрын

    Where in summer do u wear guide gear jacket n pants?

  • @TomBoley

    @TomBoley

    5 жыл бұрын

    Must not have been summer.....

  • @joebrings5817

    @joebrings5817

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@TomBoley lol here on lake erie we wear gear for most the year

  • @korymichalicek6186
    @korymichalicek61865 жыл бұрын

    When your on a lake with a lot of vegetation, do you use a different head style or hook your body different?

  • @TomBoley

    @TomBoley

    5 жыл бұрын

    Not really I will rip jig through some pretty thick stuff

  • @korymichalicek6186

    @korymichalicek6186

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thanks mann

  • @randywilson2919
    @randywilson29195 жыл бұрын

    MAGA, your making fishing great again!

  • @brianrorem3038
    @brianrorem30384 жыл бұрын

    Now are you anchored down

  • @TomBoley

    @TomBoley

    4 жыл бұрын

    Spot locked

  • @DEVILDOG1964
    @DEVILDOG19642 жыл бұрын

    WHAT'S UR FAVORITE LENGTH OF SWIMBAIT?

  • @joemartin6439
    @joemartin64394 жыл бұрын

    No 4’ weeds I see . Where are u fish now

  • @wms7004
    @wms70044 жыл бұрын

    My wife's so sick of me saying "Hooked up, Fish on". Of course I say it after sex though....

  • @christianaldrich3885
    @christianaldrich38855 жыл бұрын

    That's all I use.. 5.8" rythen waves.. fallow me on NPS or fish brain Chris Aldrich Minnesotas #1 walleye shore fisherman. I'll out fish you from shore