Pool 16 report 12-16-04

Chilly days are here to stay, and ice chunks will soon be floating down the big Mississippi, but I made it out one last time today. With a small cluster of boats just below the LD15 on the Iowa side, we caught several decent walleyes and a good size sauger in 20-28′. All fish were caught on jig/minnow combos, with the largest caught (19.5″ fat walleye that weighed just under 4 lbs…had two big shad in the stomach) on a fuzzygrub tipped with a minnow. Many fish bit short and stole the minnow, and based on the amount of small saugers coming in to other boats, that probably was the culpret. In all slow action, but steady bites made the sunshine chill tolerable.

Your complementary weather update: Cold, colder coldest. Look for temps bitterly cold sunday, monday, and again wednesday and beyond. If you’re going to fish north of Keokuk after Monday, you’ll probably have to drill a hole.

Thanks for the report Skyguy . Glad to see that you caught some fish. Did you give the wingdams a try at all? Last sunday when I was out, I did very well on them. There’s still some really nice fish on them and just up from the confluence of the Rock River. Pitching Ringworms on H20 Jig heads worked for me . Keep those reports coming.

Hey Tony, I usually fish farther up around Albany and Clinton, so I wasn’t that familiar with the wing dams around sunset marina down there. It probably would have been productive had we investigated more, but with a decent bite that was slightly out of the wind up by the rollers on the Iowa side, we stayed put. Late in the afternoon, we tried slow trolling wallydivers down about 15 feet between the two channel markers across from the sunset park boat ramp, but had no hits. I’ll have to keep paying attention on here to get tips for pools 15 and 16! Thanks Tony!