Does anyone fish below dam @ Guttenburg for walleye and sauger? I have next week off and was thinking of going there if weather stays nice. Hven’t been on the river in that area for several years.Figure it shouldn’t be crowded with deer season going on? What is river level?
You might want to call Landing 615 and ask what’s going on, the water was down last wkend when I drove through. Also go to http://www.crh.noaa.gov/arx/ (La Crosse), click on hydro Main, then click latest moring stages and you will get all the flows and river stages from 10 north. I check these everyday for a week before I go to the river.615 might be closed,try Murray’s 563-252-1838 and Beth can give you scoop. Have a good one ! 
Any reason you couldnt get the info you needed by clicking on the stage and flow link on our homepage?
Steve Hougom – FTR Webstaff
OK – Steve you got me ! That top line is alittle dark and my tri-‘s just never saw the link.
Thanks for pointing out the flow info. I am new to this board. I am also looking for recent activity fishing below the dam. I spent many days on the river in this area when I was a child, but have not been there in several years.
My home pool. I own a cabin 3 miles south of L/D 10 right on the channel (big tin pavilion above white trailer at Hideaway campground, can’t miss it). I’ve closed down for the winter, but I can tell you what I have seen/heard/experienced that last few times I went out last couple weekends before closed it down. It seems the winter move to the tailwaters is on for walleye/sauger. You’ll find a surprising amount of boaters on the Wisc. side by the barge, no doubt jigging/sonars. The advise of calling Landing 615 is right on…they should be open still and they’ll know more than anyone else if so. Also try any wingdams down to about my campground, especially IA side…first few on Iowa side always good early, but not sure now. Can try below spillway, too, caught some smaller (12-15″) below on Wisc. side of spillway using #5 shad raps (both firetiger and natural shad) two weekends ago, no size though. LMB in Swift Slough (first backwater below Lock…very shallow getting in…be careful) off logs using jig/pig worked for me in late October, but struck out two weeks ago. Just about any rock good places for LMB/SMB, but just didn’t seem to be a good year for them, only had a couple “fishing show” (20+ fish) weekends this year for bass. Lots of leaves in water, dead plants too, very hard/frustrating keeping lures clean, and water is still pretty shallow, be very careful outside of buoys, and especially in 12 mile (backwater below spillway…wingdams in channel…if stage is 5′ or below, they are only 1 to 3 feet below waterline, I see a boat a month hit them buggers!)…If you haven’t been to this pool in a while, you’ll be saddened by the siltation of the backwaters…most of the backwaters getting to the point of being too shallow to fish. My personal belief of this pool is you have to be in the right place at the right time with the right presentation to be effective. From my perch on the hill I see every tournament boat for bass/walleye hit my favorite spots and generally after 10 minutes split. If I were to say how you’ll do, I’d say if you get good numbers, they’ll be small fish. If you don’t you’ll probably get a couple good sized “keepers”, so to speak. But overall, I thought it was a bad year on this pool this year, but I only got out about 15 times this year, so I have no excuses other than lack of true effort. Good Luck!
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