Hi Semper fi
Welcome to IDA.
Unfortunately I am not sure how much info you are going to get since there are several guys from this site fishing the boater side and a bunch fishing the co-angler side of the FLW league championship. I wish I was one of them…I had a rough year and didn’t qualify…missing one tourney comepletely and getting shut out in 1 of the 3 I did fish killed my chances.
Good luck to you….wish I was going to be there too.
John
thanks buckshot, just wondering if any coanglers from the area might like to do some prefishing with me. thanks again
I lived in Winona for seven years–I am heading up there this week to do so walleye fishing by day, and flathead fishing by night. I know the upper end of Pool 6, and the lower end of Pool 5a best. I’m not fishing the tourney, so I don’t mind giving some general advice. 
Under these conditions (low water in late summer/early fall), stick to the main channel areas, i.e. wing dams and channel edges. People pick up nice walleye in backwaters and sloughs even when the water is low, but that is a low-percentage game when the river is down like it is now. If the river should come up by September, then it would be a different situation.
Some people will say look for deeper water right now, but last year at this time I picked up a bunch of walleye trolling crankbaits in 6′ of water in front of wing dams on bright sunny days. Conditions were pretty much identical to what they will be this week, so I will be hitting the same dams on Pool 6 with the same baits starting Monday.
I went out and hit Pool 6 yesterday afternoon and evening. Trolling crawlers and small creek chubs in front of the wing dams(willow cats were sold out 
) produced a couple of sheepshead and a small mudcat, while trolling cranks in front of them produced nothing at all.
I saw a lot of shad jumping out of the water right behind the dams, so I went to casting cranks across the dams from below them, and that produced oodles of smallies, with a couple of largemouth, a 16″ ‘eye, a couple of saugers, and several white bass thrown in. All these fish, including the saugers and walleye, came from either right behind the dam, or further below it.
FWIW, I was up here this time last year, with the same water conditions and the same weather, and I was pounding the walleye and sauger in front of these same wing dams. I was hoping for the same yesterday, but no dice.
I saw the same activity last night on P3. Lots of minnows being worked below wings. Mostly smallies.
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