Gaylen with one of 7 big walleye we had on our trip.
The walleye fishing on the Mississippi river has remained very good for my boat on the last 3 outings. One thing that has really stood out is the segregation of walleye by size for myself and customers. If I am in an area that 22”-28” walleye are inhabiting I am only seeing 3-5 fish that I would consider eaters under the 20” mark .
Gaylen with another big river walleye.
My best two big walleye presentations with the higher water have been anchoring and casting jigs to small current breaks or 3-way rigging bait slowly up river with the kicker motor or bow mount if I am unable to get a jig in to the spot I am trying to target. Leeches and crawlers have been neck and neck on the last three trips. Walleye have been caught in less than 2’ of water and as deep as 24’ depending on where the current break we are targeting is located. The deeper current breaks have been best for the bigger walleye as of late. 1/4oz to 3/8oz precision jigs in black, chartreuse sunburst, or chartreuse/orange have been my best jig colors.
Tom with one of the bigger walleye we had on our trip
While we still have higher water levels, I did take a day this weekend to check out a high water bite that I have been unable to target on the last couple of trips due to those big walleye in the river keeping us occupied. Casting cranks on Lake Pepin to the flooded timber is what I have been itching to try on my last 2 guide trips, but as I stated above, the bigger walleye in the river kept cooperating for my boat so I did not have the chance to get down that way.
Tom with another big river eye.
Once I finally made it on to the Lake those walleye were very cooperative . I fished with two good friends on this day. In 4 1/2 hours of casting cranks to the flooded willows we had over a three man limit of legal walleyes with just as many short walleyes in the mix. #5 and #7 Fire tiger shad raps did the trick for us on this day. Unfortunately this flooded timber casting bite is on the down swing with the falling water levels .
I will have some pictures posted of my last 2 guide trips in this report and below. I would like to thank those of you who fished with me again. The big eyes were cooperating on our trips and that always makes things more enjoyable .
Excellent as usual Dustin! We got a really good crankbait trolling bite going on up here on pool 2; but we're gonna have to adjust also. The water dropped about a foot yesterday and will probably keep dropping unless we have some thunderstorms. Then its back to the wingdams. And that is fun too!
It is old hat to hear Dustin is on big fish. Getting to the point that`s what I am expecting from each of your reports. Your consistancy on big fish is showing how good of a stick you are.
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Mississippi River Minnesota Walleye Fishing Report
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. I fished with two good friends on this day. In 4 1/2 hours of casting cranks to the flooded willows we had over a three man limit of legal walleyes with just as many short walleyes in the mix. #5 and #7 Fire tiger shad raps did the trick for us on this day. Unfortunately this flooded timber casting bite is on the down swing with the falling water levels 
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Re: Mississippi River Walleye Fishing Report 6-23-08
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. I was hoping they were still there for you guys. That's why I went to the lake that day I was hoping you guys would get them 
