Anoka area info

I have read that the mississippi/rum river area near Anoka have a decent walleye population. I have fished this area heavily for the past few years, but have never boated one. Has anyone ever had success in this area?

Chris, 1st off WELCOME to IDA….. I fish from the Coon Rapids dam north to the Champlin bridge, we get all kinds of fish but have yet to get 1 single walleye. I have got them below the dam, but none above. If you fish that strech of river be very careful boating above the Champlin bridge, it gets very shallow and ROCKS are everywhere and they are hungry for props, I know of this first hand….

Chris,

Bob is dead on here for my experiences as well. I live a shaort rock toss from the Champlin public access and hit this river in my spare time…whenever that is? . But my walleye success has been pretty quiet in this section. I have boated walleyes here, but they have been fw and far between. THe times I have gottne in to them have come either trolling ranks on the outside bends looking for smallies, or anchoring up near a deeper hole north of the Champlin bridge and throwing back a split shot and crawler. As you know this catches just about every species that swims in the mighty miss but have boated a share of walleyes doing this.

Good luck to you. As Bob mentioned, be careful above the bridge as the water levels are low right now and rocks are plentiful up that way!

I went out Sunday with a guy and we caught several smallies. Many were nice sized.