desoto bay

has anyone been trolling or jigging desoto lately? Any action going on?

We were up there yesterday mainly to find some sunfish. We made one drift and I caught a 15 inch sauger. There were a lot of boats drifting, trolling, and hand lining. Several were out in the channel quite a ways up from Desoto. Guess we should’ve tried for walleye or sauger but we did catch some nice sunfish. We were to far away to know if they were catching anything up above.

Hey Sal,
Were you hitting wingdams or fishing channel edges? I heard there is some current on the dams in those ares. I also heard the catch for every thing is pretty good…walleyes being the only acception. Did you put in at blackhawk or boat down from Genoa? Lastly, what was the water temp?

Bob.

Where we made the one drift was from the point down to the first buoy. For the sunfish we just fished along the rocks at Desoto. We put in at the Winneshiek landing across from Lansing. I think the water temperature when we started was 61. Hope you find some Walleyes. It’s been pretty tough. We did find some about two weeks ago on a rainy nasty day. We got them trolling. The next day we went back and all I could catch were sheepshead. sheepshead. sheepshead.