When fishing the Mississippi River, one of the best locations to target walleye is in current breaks. These are areas of slack water, found off of the main channel. The key is to visually identify these breaks and the structures or features that create them (including brush, rock piles, etc).
When you find these areas sit above them and try one of two things:
- Casting plastics into them, allowing the current to bring the bait down into the feeding walleye
- Rigging with willow cats and dragging the bait through
Willow Cats are a mean angry baitfish that walleye love. Hook them into a traditional Lindy rig setup: a 3/4 oz egg sinker is a good weight to start with (but will vary depending on water levels), swivel and roughly an 18″ lead attached to a 1 or 2 size hook that of course is hooked with a willow cat. Cast it out and drag it back. This is a highly effective way to target fish in the Mississippi.
