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26 inch paddle tail walleye

I had a sneaky suspicion that the lackluster bite we have been experiencing on pool 2 had to turn around sooner than later and boy was I right. With the warm temps, sunny skies, and dry conditions the water levels are finally stable and falling slowly which puts the odds in the savvy anglers favor.

27 inch dragging walleye

I launched at 4:45am out of 494 and after hitting one dam south of the launch with no luck, I decided to go upstream to a few of my favorite pieces of structure. The pitching bite was not as hot as I would have liked it to be and after working over my second dam with no fish, I had to put the thinking cap on. This 27 inch bruiser was the result of a small change in presentation.

24 inch dragging a
paddletail

Everyone talks about dragging on pool 4 but never have I tried it on pool 2. I decided to drag a jig upstream to the next wingdam through some scattered rocks just off the main channel and connected with 3 really nice fish including this 24 incher.

one of Pool 2's finest
walleyes

A few quick notes on presentation. Traditionally, most guys like to drag downstream just a hair faster than the current, but in the spot I was at the current was much too fast. So I dragged upstream, bumped up my jig weight to 1/8 and slowly worked the bow mount upstream at about .4mph working side to side over the rocks.
The other fish I took this morning I did take pitching and jigs were BfishN Tackle's Pyrokeet precision jigs with either pro blue, chart pepper, oyster shell paddletails.
With the great weather we've been having, it's foolish not to get out and enjoy the sunshine if nothing else. If you can remember to change things up and be creative, my guess is you'll have a few visitors in the boat. This fish was the fattest 27 inch walleye I have seen to date and she gobbled up a paddle tail pitched to the face of a dam.

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