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Wondering if there is a size preference 3″ or 4″ in the moxi jig for fishing below the dams on the Mississippi river pool 4&5 redwing & Alma in the spring? Any favorite colors?

I have more luck with the bigger size.

I have good luck with white and purple chartreuse up on pool 2.

We’ve caught a ton of fish on both the 3″ & the 4″ moxi’s.
When the bite slows down, that’s when we switch to the smaller size.

Some of our best colors:
Chart Pepper
Oyster Shell
Purple Chart Tail
Pro Blue
Chart Orange Core
White

I think both sizes work equally well. Depending on how aggressive the fish are.
Colors
Char./Pepper
Purple/Char.

Like others recommended I like:
Purples, Chart, Pro Blue, Firecrackers
Now for the size I would go with some of both. You never know what they want.

Good Luck

Ive always stuck with the larger size. Fish hit them so havent changed yet.

Change colors often as the amount of sunlight and water clarity will determine which colors they see best during those conditions…Dirty water bright colors, clearer water natural colors.

I fish smaller sizes more in spring…larger sizes summer thru fall, when I come in November I break out the big K Grubs

Match the forage size! This time of year they are eating the stunned or half-dead shad rolling along the bottom. Bigger size will do great!

Later in the summer when the shad have spawned and the fish are chasing shiners or silver dollar shad the 3″ moxi rocks! But if they are feeding on perch or bigger shad, forget the moxi and go for a 4-5″ grub!

The other time to switch to the 3″ is when the fish are short hitting the bigger ones.

My PB (personal best) walleye came on a white 3″ moxi, and last fall I caught several 10″ saugers on the 4″. So the old saying big bait big fish doesn’t ALWAYS work.

So get both sizes in an array of colors and you will be set! Best colors for me have been white and chart/white core.

I assume then the Shad spawn the same time as the walleyes? And do the the Shad once they spawn out die?

Shad tend to spawn a little later.

Early May if I remember correctly.

Do they die after spawning?

No. I don’t believe they do.

They spawn about the same time as crappies, in May.

Some die, most do not. But when the shad are spawning they are up in the shallows getting hammered by bass and catfish. When this happens is been my experience that the walleyes start feeding on shiners and small perch/bluegills as their main food source. By then its post spawn. A lot of people call it the post spawn blues, I call it time to break out the 3″ gulp minnows and 3″ moxis and hammer some eyes.