Spent the day with my buddy Andy fishing Mississippi Lake. Launched the boat out of 9A at 8:15am, and headed out to fish an 8-14 foot flat. Fished white twistertails, and white and black bucktails. Andy got the first walleye of the day half an hour later, a nice keeper on the twistertail, amongst the weed clumps in 8 feet of water. Got a ton of pike and bass in here also, but no more walleye.
Headed down the lake to fish a deep rock point. I connected with my first walleye, another decent keeper, on a pink and white twistertail in 9 feet of rock-strewn water. Again, a ton of pike and bass.
Located some decent gills along an eastern shoreline, in small isolated schools in three feet of water. Got a half dozen, but the fish were pretty skitterish.
Couldn't find crappies anywhere, but don't really know many of the productive spots on the lake anyways.
Fished until the rain drove us off the lake, around 2pm. Great day overall, although I did expect a few more walleye. Tried trolling for a short while, but nothing doing...
Will be back out again next week..
Good Fishing,
Justin
Andy and his Walleye:
My own walleye:
A couple of the Gills...took the photo before we put the boat on the trailer:
