<font size="4">Chris's Blown Crawler Lindy</font>
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This guy Chris, from London, Ontario, sent me a pile of pictures and I was happy that he agreed to let me put them on Fish-Hawk.Net. I asked him if he would provide a few words to go with each picture. His reply was nothing short of...well... it was nothing short of anything! Here it is, cut and pasted from his email...
<b><img align="left" src="http://www.fish-hawk.net/tips/lindyrig/lindy.gif" width="457" height="347">Mike,<br>
Here's the first play-by-play,<br>
It was a slow evening on one of my favorite walleye spots on the west arm of Nipissing so I decided to visit this spot where I can usually take one fish for sure. Its just a little point where only a few walleye come to feed but usually of bigger size. I use a Lindy Rig type of set up consisting of a 3/4 oz. slider weight, a swivel and about three feet of five pound mono. Attached to the leader is a number 14 size bait hook which is quite small but very effective when used right. I take a night crawler and thread the hook through the tip of its head. Then with a Lindy worm blower I inject a small amount of air into the worm until it inflates.<br><br>
I usually get myself into about 17 to 22 feet of water and put the rig over the side. On a very slow troll with the electric I gently bounce the rig across the bottom. I feel the weight nudging the rocks below, knowing full well that the worm is staying about six inches off the bottom which puts it right in the strike zone of the walleye.<br><br>
<img border="0" src="http://www.fish-hawk.net/tips/lindyrig/ ... alleye.JPG" align="right" width="423" height="394">All of a sudden the nudging turns into an indiscreet tug. I let off on the monofilament which was at my finger tip and it rolls off the reel behind the boat. The walleye swims away with the worm, and the mono slides right through the sinker, the walleye doesn't even feel it. Most important with this rig is not to set the hook immediately or all you'll get is the head of the worm back. I gently turned the boat around with the electric and start taking up slack just enough to feel the presence of the walleye, usually feeling for weight. As the walleye makes a meal of the night crawler he fails to pick up on the hook which is firmly embedded into the nose of the worm. Finally, a minute or two pass by which seems like an eternity when reeling up on a walleye on a Lindy rig. The moment comes when I am fully confident that he has eaten the worm well past the hook. I then reel down to the fish, tip of the rod touching the water, and set the hook with a swift upward rip putting the hook deep into the throat of my supper.<br>
From there on its history. I've been fishing walleye out of Nipissing like this for close to ten years and it wouldn't have meant much if I just said a few words. This is an exact routine I play over and over again and from a distance people have told me it looks like I'm dancing with my boat but the only dance that is taking place is a dance of extreme focused execution between me and the walleye harvesting my bait.<br>
Tomorrow I'll go to the next picture on the list.....</b>
