how would you fish mississippi river pool 9

[cyph3r]

i have a tournament coming soon on this part of the river. i have never been there, neither has my non boater. from what i have garnered from other club members it will be relatively shallow and there will probably be lots of frog fishing cover and maybe some relatively shallow water cranking. i couldnt find a topo map on lake link so i have no idea the depths of this place. any advice on how to approach practice the day before? what techniques would work well on the river system? anyone suggest fishing the eddies around the wingdams. just any advice would be great haha.

[Matt Jungblut]

i fish pool 12 every weekend

im sure there is a better population of small mouth further north

i would fish them just like u would walleye throw cranks on the wingdams they will be marked with green and red boyou

start with the green 1s fish from the bank out throwing cranks u just want to barely bump the bottom and hang on tight u will catch monster perch, walleye, and catfish but mostly smallmouth bass

if fishing bye the bank doesnt get u bit work your way out the wing dam watch your depth finder u want to stay on top or close to either side of the wing dam u could even throw over the dam and work it deep to shallow

as for large mouth u will probally find them in the grass or laydowns along the channel

i havnt had much luck in the back waters

i am a crankbait fisherman so im sure u could get bit with plastics but i fish 90% of the time with cranks

there is a member on here i think his name is cade he fishes the pools where u are going to be fishing and he has some pics of some huge smallmouth he catchs all the time

id look in the smallmouth section of this forum u will find his pics there he could probally help u more then me but he might be fishing that tourney 2

well i hope this has helped if u have any questions feel free to pm me

heres a few maps

[cyph3r]

its a small club tourney so i doubt anyone else is fishing it. thanks for the info though, i will do my best to research the wing dams when i get there. just a question what types of cranks do you use and at what depth? i was thinking of using lipless and cranks 6 feet and less.

[Matt Jungblut]

i use a rapala dt 6

my brother uses a speed trap in the 1\4 oz

when we got to water deeped then say 6 foot i went with dt 10 or norman deep little n

my brother uses bomber fat free shad

as for hot colors they were white, chrome,silver and greenfiretiger

we have not used lippless cranks on the river so i am sorry i am no help there