Mississippi River Pool 8 - LaCrosse

Bite for crappies,big gills, and jumbo perch is outstanding right now!! Don't miss out on this opportunity! Crappies are on ledges and structure, big gills on wing dams and weed edges, perch are on the weed edges as well.  Let's go fishing!! 608-451-2986 

Fished a tournament on Pool 8 and had a blast!

The Perch and Gills have been on the bite. Love this time of year. Fun to catch and great to eat. Time to book your adventure.

I've got openings next week for walleyes,bluegills, crappies, or  trophy pike! The bite has been good for all 4! Walleyes and gills on wing dams,  crappies are on wood and structure, big pike have been on weed edges!  I'm also still taking bookings for airboat trips on the ice, my schedule for that is filling up quickly! Let's go fishing! 608-451-2986

The name of the game lately has been willow cats on wing dams.  The walleye fishing has been incredibly good.  We keep moving until we pop an active fish or two. Catch a few, move, catch a few move. It's been fast and furious somedays with as many as 50 legals in a few hours!Bluegills on top of the wing dams has provided excellent action as well.  If you're looking to get out and learn a thing or two, I'd be happy to show you! Schedule is getting busy,  let's get your next great day on the water booked! 

Slotfish….
That was a fun read!  Thanks for sharing.

Heading up this Saturday to fish this area for the first time. Not looking for any honey holes, just a point in the right direction going for mainly walleyes, perch, and crappie. Where to launch and get willow cats. 
Feel free to PM me any info helps thanks in advance!

MID DAY CRAPPIES

On the water today @ 1030 am, while waiting  for numerous bass boats  to launch from Vets park.   Tried several wing dams main channel, a couple of short walleyes, 1 s m bass,  and a few overeager  bluegills.  Not the action I was hoping for, being that the wing dams in low water conditions can be very good.  Started looking for deeper water and some structure.  I have a Lowrance elite 4 hdi for a graph, so i either have to run over, or into structure.  Found several places that showed some promise, and were fairly close together.    The marks that were showing indicated schooling fish.   Perch,  crappies, clutter?   A slip bobber and a crappie scrub produced a 10 inch crappie.  Game on!  Two more crappies to the boat and the action ceased.  The marks were still there but the desire was not.  I removed the slip bobber, kept the 1/32 jig head , and crappie scrub, tennessee shad in color, and moved off the marks, allowing for a short cast to the area.  Game on!  These fish wanted to chase.  My grandson was with today and for the next 2-3 hours  the crappie catching was like something I have not seen in a long while.  A spot would cool off make a move to another, work that area,  going back and forth as the action ceased.  Kept 12 for a fry.  6 foot ultralite rod, 4 lb test mono,  1/32 jig, crappie scrubs.  Did not count numbers but would guess 50 + fish to the boat today.  Once in a while you are just there.

Dropped the Marcum underwater camera down and left it recording while my wife and I were fishing on pool 8. Pretty cool to see all the variety below the surface on a Mississippi River Wingdam. Warmer ?temps and dropping water levels has definitely ?moved fish towards main channel structure.

Fishing for crappies and walleyes has been very good! Several walleye trips the last week with limits coming in 15-30 minutes on steep ledges with willow cats. A few clients getting their personal bests as well!  Crappies have been pre spawn staged along drop offs as well. It's never a bad day on the river,  but the days with 4 casts and 4 beautiful walleyes will never get old! Have some openings next week if you're looking to get out! 

I made it to fish in La Crosse for the first time ever. My son was in the state track meet, so I was in town. I found a very little time window to fish due to thunderstorms in the area, but I was determined to catch a fish or two in the mighty Mississippi.

There is a boat launch at the campground and good fishing to be had close by.

Was just wondering where/what boat landing would be good to use?  Probably fishing panfish. Will be staying at goose island campground for the first time.

Had a good day fishing on Pool 8! Caught just about every species out there even though I was after bass! 

Well things have once again changed rapidly- water Temps have skyrocketed into the mid 70s, and the river has dropped like a rock.  Fishing is incredibly good right now for white bass and crappies.  We're catching some trophy white bass in the 18" range. The crappies we're seeing are post spawn and set up along drop offs, and some on deep wood. Minnows, and plastics are both working well. I've got some openings, let's fish!