I just moved near that stretch of the Rum as well. I’ve got to spend a year or so fishing it and think it’s pretty neat. The smallmouth fishing is a hoot, some decent fish in there as well. My best luck with walleyes has been either with jig/plastics or jig/minnow while floating in a canoe. It is fairly quiet river, aside from the mid-summer tubing crowd.

I’ve been up to the pond 3 times in the last week and a half, out of the east side every time. With the cold weather, we found fewer active fish during the daytime. At prime time in the evening and later seemed to be the best luck for us. We were set up on the bottom transition edge of structure near the basin.

A few smaller fish on spoons with minnow heads, most of the better fish came on deadsticks and tip-ups with lively small to medium suckers 6″-18″ from the bottom. They were still very light and tentative bites. Best of luck to you!