Hello all my fellow fisher people,
Me and a buddy fish a lot on pool 2 primarily for flatheads but we normally hit the river a few hours early to try and target walleyes but with no success(except normally at least 1 while catfishing).I am looking for some tips, techniques, areas to target, anything that would help us in hooking into some eyes. Any and all help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
Take Care!
Kevin
Kevin, I’m sure some of the guys will chime in here as I don’t have a clue about P2…except…
Take extra gas along. 
Try looking for walleyes on areas with current and rocks. Troll, pitch, drag, vertical jig or live bait these areas. There are a good amount of rocky shorelines on pool 2 that will fit for this. There are plenty of wingdams to. For depths 15′ rite up to the shoreline is a good bet for holding walleyes. The other evening Joel and I took a number of fish out of 3′ or less of water.
I have been catching them on the current seems. Most fish seem to be in the 8 – 12 feet range. catching them mostly on jigs and gulp, Crawlers and leaches on jigs also have worked well but most of the time I do not have live bait so I just use gulp the 3 inch minnows seem to work the best on 1/4 ounce jig. Also using gulp eliminated most of the sheephead and other roughfish that will go through all your leaches/crawlers in a hurry.
I have also caught a lot of eye on cranks casting the seems. DT6 firetiger and frenzy’s seemed to work the best but that was a little earlier in the season. Pitching jigs have worked best the last couple of weeks.
Go back and read over the Mississippi river walleye forum posts. Everything you will encounter or might want to try has been talked about at one time or another. But you won’t be able to learn “feel” or read current seams without putting in the time on the water. The best shortcut to learn techniques and see what good spots look like is to hire a guide. I went from clueless to fairly clued in about a year or two after booking guide trips. Good luck!
dd (Joel)
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