Good luck to IDO’s own Brett King in the Quad Cities starting today! Sounds like this will be the last FLW Walleye Championship. Bring home the hardware Brett!!!
October 25, 2012 at 12:31 pm
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October 25, 2012 at 12:33 pm #1107425
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October 25, 2012 at 1:14 pm #1107437Good Luck Brett!!!
October 25, 2012 at 1:30 pm #1107443Good Luck Brett
October 25, 2012 at 2:04 pm #1107461With the jigs I tied for him he can’t go wrong. He’s the man!
October 25, 2012 at 2:44 pm #1107477GET-RRR-DONE BRET…rrr
October 27, 2012 at 1:06 am #1107903I think I proved there is no walleyes in Iowa
I guess I should have fished the Illinois side 
. like a bad dream… but thanks for the cheers guys greatly appreciated.October 27, 2012 at 1:46 am #1107908did you run up to 14?
October 27, 2012 at 4:48 am #1107913You obviously didn’t use the tnt I gave you.
October 27, 2012 at 2:32 pm #1107927Yes I made the long run to 14 as I went to win not place and I firmly believed and still do believe it will be won there. When you come out of the locks you had three hours to make your run ,fish, and get back in the locks to start back down. The first day I ran 29 miles to the tailrace once I came out of the lock so I had 1 hr and 40 minutes to fish. I gambled and lost. Looks like 19 guys caught either zero or one small fish in two days. Very humbling place to fish and the odds were certainly stacked against the anglers putting on a good show.
October 27, 2012 at 3:09 pm #1107932I’m sorry your tournament experience was not a good one. There is nothing wrong with the fishery, It just fishes different than the northern pools. I live here and I’m a tournament angler also. I won an IWT event last Nov. with 18 plus pounds. The fish are there, the bulk of the fish are in the mid pool areas right now hanging on rock. We have had know problem catching limits all through the practice period. The weather was not good and the clarity went south yesterday that didn’t help. The short fishing window hurts, there are short feeding windows right know. Not having the option to grind spots out for several hours waiting for the bite to start hurts. Wednesday morning my buddy sat on a spot for awhile then caught 4 keepers in 4 casts. My Dad had 3 keepers off of one dam in one pass. It is just right place right time thing.
October 27, 2012 at 5:03 pm #1107944The fish are there and they are biting, but it takes a local to get them. Our pools are nothing like up north where you can just run below the dam and catch fish. The fish are in the middle of the pools along the current breaks. If you can find slack water next to current (and rock), there will be a walleye cruising there looking for shad.
I saw a few guys throwing raps and trolling right up on the bank… the fish arent up by the banks unless you can get in a big school of shad and pick out a sauger or small walleye chasing them up to the bank. They are out in the middle looking for the shad schools. The shad havent moved up under the dams yet, and they probably wont for another month or so. Until then there will be walleye and sauger chasing them around in the channel.
October 27, 2012 at 5:35 pm #1107946Quote:
The fish are there and they are biting, but it takes a local to get them. Our pools are nothing like up north where you can just run below the dam and catch fish. The fish are in the middle of the pools along the current breaks. If you can find slack water next to current (and rock), there will be a walleye cruising there looking for shad.
I saw a few guys throwing raps and trolling right up on the bank… the fish arent up by the banks unless you can get in a big school of shad and pick out a sauger or small walleye chasing them up to the bank. They are out in the middle looking for the shad schools. The shad havent moved up under the dams yet, and they probably wont for another month or so. Until then there will be walleye and sauger chasing them around in the channel.
I would venture a guess that everyone of these guys has been working with the “locals” over the last 2 weeks… Isnt this Tommys home water or does he just refer to it that way?
I highly doubt there was 42 boats playing bumper boats below the dam.
You should run out for a couple hours and post up some dated fish pics, show these boys how ta catchem’October 27, 2012 at 6:55 pm #1107957Agree on fish to be caught I have got a Limit last three trips to 14 and there is definitely windows its been bang bang or dead for me also I think it’s a shame they had to launch from 16 I personally am not a fan of that pool
October 28, 2012 at 1:32 am #1107977King………You still are R KING..
.rrrOctober 28, 2012 at 6:42 pm #1108054Quote:
Agree on fish to be caught I have got a Limit last three trips to 14 and there is definitely windows its been bang bang or dead for me also I think it’s a shame they had to launch from 16 I personally am not a fan of that pool
pool 16 has some real nice fish in it. and a good abundance of nice saugers that aren’t too hard to catch. obviously being a local helps know where they are located on a regular basis. its certainly not the fishery that the upper pools are but at the right time, it can be real good.
i think the weather didn’t help and would of hindered the fishing anywhere and i think if the tourney was held next weekend, the fish would of been less spread out and the fishing would of been better.
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