What a awesome morning! I did not go pheasant hunting this morning,instead choosing to try to get a few walleyes from a small river in NW Iowa.The Little Sioux River runs through the NW part of Iowa and can be very good in the fall and spring when the walleyes gather in deeper pools.
I arrived at the river by 7:30 a.m. this morning and one of my friends was already there with 1 keeper.We worked a small area and found where they were very active.We both ended up with are limits of 5 walleye each in about 2 hours of fishing.
We were both casting jigs and plastics.I caught my fish on Berkley 2 & 3" Power grubs.I also caught 1 fish on a Gulp 3" minnow.It was very fun as these fish were very active and hitting the plastics very hard.The fish ranged from 14-18"’s.There was even a small sauger caught.This is the first sauger I’ve seen from this area of the river.don’t forget your small inland streams and rivers this time of year.If your there at the right time it can be great fishing.Best of luck to all you anglers.
Ryan Hale
I agree, the wapsi river down here is good this time of year, up until freeze up, for walleyes. It a smaller river too that you can just about cast across. Going to try to go this afternoon depends on whats on the list and the wapsi is just about totally wadeable. jigs and large minnows might be the trick in the holes and cuts.
I have to agree with you mossydan. I fish the wapsi,but mostly for those big flatheads that it holds. There are good numbers of eye’s in the sections that I fish. I have caught many eye’s while fishing for cats. It’s something when a walleye takes a 6″ chub. Not much water in it down here right now. Take care.
Nice report Ryan – guess we’ll be having Walleye for dinner next time I see you…
Great report Ryan.
The Raccoon River is similar in size to the Little Sioux and at times, can be very productive. The areas below Lake Panorama down to the old Mill in Panora have given up some very nice walleyes. Find them holes in the river and usually the fish are there.
The wapsi was hot this last weekend. I do not know what the rain will do to the river as far as fishing goes but the guys I talked to had excellent luck casting jigs in the holes. The fish were very active and the pictures I saw showed all really nice fish. 17″ to 20″ fish. The larger fish were released and they caught 4 over 22″.
As soon as the water drops and clears up the bite should be back on for sight feeding. Boy we needed the rain! Its normal water levels now. Crawlers would probably work because they were up with this last few days of rain. Jig tiped with a plastic and crawler might work good.