Mississippi River Walleye Fishing Report 11-18-10

The walleye and sauger fishing has remained very solid on the big river over the past couple of weeks. Since my last report, I have had the opportunity to fish with three different groups.

The day I fished with Mark and Justin we had a solid morning of walleye catching casting 5"K-grubs right at sun-up. After the morning bite slowed, the wind kicked up pretty good so we shifted gears. We found ourselves anchoring up out of the wind on a deep water current edge. The three of us diligently casted this area for about 5 hours never moving the anchor once. Black precision heads tipped with oyster shell paddle tails were the meal of choice. All though the bigger walleye eluded us on this day, we caught a large numbers of walleye/sauger with our best fish right around 22". Thanks again Mark and Justin for spending a day in my boat

The day I shared my boat with Jeff Huberty we were once again faced with strong northwest winds . With the high winds, jumping around the river spot to spot is not much of an option. Jeff has never fished the river before, his goal was to learn more about reading water, what to look for, and how to catch fish on a jig and plastic. I was able to put the boat in three areas throughout the day that allowed us to see some steady fish catching action with a mix of walleye and sauger. Pro-blue ringworms won out by days end for the bait of choice. The bigger walleye eluded us on this day as well, our best walleye was right around 22". Jeff got to see the "how to’s" on river fishing with a jig rod in hand! Thanks again for spending a day in my boat Jeff, it was a fun day of river fishing!

The day I shared my boat with Tony Scully he had one goal in mind. The goal was to learn how to read the water better on the big river along with what to look for while pursuing those big river walleyes while casting a jig/plastic combo. The early morning bite was good for Tony. The first walleye Tony put in the boat weighed 9lbs 4oz, the second was right at 10lbs. Congrats Tony on boating your two best river walleye (weight wise) back to back . 5" firecracker k-grubs on a 3/16oz sour apple precision head did the damage. The winds were light on this day so the rest of the day we jumped from spot to spot pitching jigs. We boated walleye/sauger every location we fished except for one. Right as the sun was setting, we anchored up on one of the areas that produced decent walleyes for us midday with high hopes of bigger walleye making an appearance at sundown. Once anchored, we saw steady action until it was to dark for us to see our line. That’s when the bite went dormant .

I was able to boat the last walleye of our day on a pro-blue ringworm weighing 10lbs 5oz. Tony is pictured here with that fish. I am much better at running the camera than holding the fish . Thanks for posing Tony! Tony, it was great fishing with you . It’s much more fun trying to learn more about fishing plastics on the river when the walleye cooperate as they did for us on this day .

The walleye/sauger are biting, get out and get fishing. I’ll see you on the river!