Colors such as fluorescent orange, chartreuse and my all time favorite gold are great for fishing those spring walleyes. Anytime that you can bring attention to your bait it will help you up your odds for catching those spring walleyes. I will tip my jig with some plastic if I want to slow down the rate of fall, but current usually fights gravity faster and defeats the purpose of vertical jigging. The angler in this situation should use a lift drop retrieve to slip or quarter the jig downstream as it is retrieved back to the boat. This is a super tactic for fishing eddies, wing dams or shallow mid river shoals.
Wing dams are prime summer structures on larger rivers.
These manmade equivalents of Mother Nature s rock points project from shore, deflecting current back into midriver, preventing erosion. Constructed primarily from boulders, they gather tangles of brush and logs, forming hideouts for walleyes and other fish. Swirling water and downstream eddies betray their locations to the trained eye. You can identify the wing dams two distinct ways. Some of these are marked by the buoy system on the river.