Minnesota, Mississippi River, Jigging - Walleye Fishing Report at IDOfishing.com

Tim Feldman with a 26"
early morning walleye

Over the past 2 - 3 weeks I've struggled to find time to get out on my favorite body of water during my favorite time of year. There's no place I would rather be than on the Mississippi River in November pitching light jigs tipped with plastics for fat and hard-fighting river walleye.

Tim with his first fish of
the day!

Thankfully the stars finally aligned this sunday and I was able to put together some time to get out on the water for a full day of walleye chasing on Pool 2. Weather conditions were... perfect. No wind. Warm temps. Clear skies. It was one of those days when it just feels good to be outside with the sun on your face.

The river levels are still a little high for this time of year and during our run downstream away from the landing there was a fair amount of small to medium sized logs and branches to dodge that had drifted into the river after the last rain fall. By mid-morning the vast majority of this debris had cleared up making travel up and down the channel a heck of a lot easier.

Water clarity is right at 6" up near the airport. The further downstream you get the better the clarity becomes but you'll be hard pressed to find visibility past 10" - 12" anywhere on the main channel. Water temps were 46 degrees in the AM at sunrise and 48 - 49 degrees later in the day.

The guy at the front of the
boat gets in on the action!

With the falling water levels the fish seem to be moving back on the wingdams in numbers now. I wouldn't however call the fish "stacked" by any means. I think we'll see larger concentrations in the expected locations as the water levels continue to fall over the next week or so. Combine a return to more seasonal water levels with an improvement in water clarity and I'm predicting we'll see the best pool 2 has to offer in 7 - 10 days barring any further rainfall.

We did find our willing biters on wingdams with most of the fish showing up on the middle of the dam and in towards shore. We caught few if any fish out on the tips where there seemed to be far too much current on most of the dams we fished.

Pool 2 kicks out some DANDY
saugers too!

1/4 - 3/8 ounce Precision Jigs in black and Pyrokeet put the most fish in the boat when tipped with a Purplecracker Chartreuse Tail Paddletail. We did catch one or two fish on a chartreuse pepper ringworm but on this particular day the purplecracker / chart tail PT was dominant and accounted for 90% of our fish. The best part of the day was how aggressively the fish took these baits. We didn't have any issue with reluctant biters and short hits... quite the opposite. The fish we did catch gave the jigs the best wallop they could muster which adds to the fun quite a bit in my opinion.

I'm going to keep this report short and sweet. Look for more reports from Pool 2 in the coming weeks as the water levels come back into a more normal range. Once that happens I think we'll see the Pool 2 parade of big walleyes we're all so accustomed to seeing in the fall.

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