10-17-12 Wed

10-17-2012 Wed 9:30AM – 6:00 PM
Weather:
(1553) SW9, overcast, 58˚, 29.30 steady
Water:
5.12 falling, 26.1 kcfs, 50 ˚, clear
Location:
Mississippi river pool 8
Caught:
walleye 16”, pike 25”, LMB (16) 7 – 16”, SMB (3) 12 – 14”.
Partners:
none

Comments

It was my day off during mid – week, and last night I had nothing but fishing playing through my mind; forget the yard work, new battery for the truck, dog shit to clean up, etc., etc. I was going fishing.
I knew I could do fairly well on the home waters of pool 7, but I was once again in the mood for a challenge on somewhat unfamiliar waters. My game plan was to fish for bass, both small mouths and large mouths with the possibility of running into a walleye and a striper or two.
I targeted mostly main channel wing dam areas. The wing dam bite was not great, I caught a walleye, pike and a few large mouths and a couple of small mouths on them, but it was slow. Most of the large mouths came from areas adjacent to deep water that the bass will be using for their wintering areas. I fished two types of baits today: crank baits and spinner baits. The spinner bait accounted for the majority of the large mouths and the crank baits accounted for the other fish.

Observations:

The river is in pretty good shape right now: low flows, clear and not mainly floating weeds to foul an angler’s hook.