With the dreadful heat wave we have been dealing with throughout the midwest, my buddy and I decided to get out at sun up to beat the heat in search of some hungry walleyes !!!
Hopped into the Chevy and shot over to a close landing and was on the water by 5:30 this morning.. We dropped the terrova down and hit spot loc just above a wingdam and commenced to casting…and it didn’t take long to get some whacking !!!
Thats when Steve let out a WHOA !!! and said FISH ON !!! Steve picked out the #7 Bleeding Copper Flash jointed shad rap and with the Suffix 832 braid in 6# diameter, he was able to get that bait down far enough to tick the rocks of this wing dam and pull this sweet 25″ walleye
With the river coming down fast I was still looking for wingdams that are normally very shallow,, but these wingdams are still 6′ down.. So the ability to get the Rapala down to tick the rocks is a must !!!
#7 Jointed Shad Raps, #9 Shad Raps and Storm Mad Flash cranks did the job !!!
With some of these quality rock piles scatter thruout the Mississippi, the best presentation is a jig and plastic !!
I pulled a 3/8 oz head out and put a 4″ Trigger X Pearl Minnow on and stuck this nice walleye that measured out just over 20″…
Weather cooperated with a nice south breeze and and we even got a nice rain shower for about 10 minutes after this nice sun rise shot…
There is still a lot of crud coming down the river so be careful out there !!
The Tug is the Drug Baby !!
Plan on casting cranks on P7 dams tomorrow. Nice fish.
Nice fish Dave.
Nice fish! Looks like a good time!
Nice work Dave. Love me some wingdam fishing, and great to see you’re on them!
Joel
Thanks for sharing and well done on the whacking!
– Will
I have never done the wingdam thing, but read alot about it. Sometime Koonce will have to do a trade a trip eyes for eyes. – QB
Nice walters Dave!