The catfish bite has been slow lately so we have turned our sights on what everyone calls “The Elusive Walleye.” Taking everything we have learned over the years on walleye (which I can tell you is not much), we targeted bait fish infested breaks off the edge of the river where fast moving water meets slow moving shallow water. The plan was to pitch plastics and see if we could catch these “bait fish.” 
Plastics were not the ticket, shad raps of any color produced all the fish we caught, starting with this 28″ jumbo!
Cast after cast yielded walleye, and not just any sort of walleye, we are talking about the beasts. All of the walleye caught in the last 3 nights have been within 5 feet of the shore and sitting in 2-4 feet of water. Slow retrieve with a few pauses here and there brought the most to shore.
RyanK started a few nights ago ringing in a pair of 26’s and gave me the heads up that the walleye are going crazy! I quickly headed down the next night and ran into 8 walleye with 2 over 28” and a handful over 20″. The site was amazing, more baitfish then you could imagine all congregating into one area. Without casting we watched huge fish after huge fish chase these baitfish through the shallows, what an awesome site!
Now is the time to hit the river and get those baits up into the shallow baitfish infested river edges. The walleye are hungry and on the prowl. In the last 3 nights we have brought over 20 walleye to the shores of the Mississippi River and had a blast doing it!
Cat guy turned walleye guy for the last 3 nights signing off.
Very cool pics.
Are the walleyes crashing rock shores or sand/mud shores. How did you find the baitfish?
Wow! Great report and awesome fish!!
Just a quick question though. When you’re seeing those Walleyes chasing baitfish, have you tried topwater? That would have to be a blast if you could get them to hit a Pop-R or a Chug-Bug.
Thanks for sharing!
Holy pig-hunting! Congrats guys on a phenomenal bite.
Joel
Wow! And that is in some pretty muddy water.
dd
Wow, that’s a heck of a bite, great job!!
Great report. I was out last night and all I can say is we are having a rare August run. August is typically my toughest month down there. Hopefully it lasts a while longer.
Nice sumos!!!
J
The area we were fishing was a muddy shore transitioning into rocks about 5 feet out. The walleye were sitting up in the mud.
I bet a top water would have worked – we rang in a couple decent white bass and saw many more jumping.
I think I’m going to cry.
Traitors!
Dont worry BK this same area has put out some excellent flatheads as well!!!
Same area. Come on guys, my PM box has no incoming messages. Help a brother out.
Alright, then i am not giving up my white bass spot. White bass is just another name for sheephead, right?
So are you guys saying that a person doesn’t need a $30k sparkle boat to catch pig walleyes?
I think you’ll have a hard time selling that.
Great read and pics
Awesome fish boys!!
Looks like a great time!
Now I just have to figure out how to troll my WX2100 with planer boards along that 5 foot shoreline. 
WOW !!!
What a gold mine !!!
Great report guys…