Where would you start

[ikeslayer]

This was spurred by the WHAT WOULD YOU THROW post but i thought we needed a river angle as well.

current is coming at you.

I am not going to give any details like time of year depth watertemperature But i will say the current is coming at you. This is a typical mississippi river back water if there is anything typical about a river. So where would you start and how would you pick it apart

ike

[Central Bassman]

I would start with a Swimming jig or shallow running crank bait. Cover some water at first to see if I can get a reaction strikes. Then I would slow down , move a little closer to the cover and use a jig or tube.

[Deitz Dittrich]

Pretty pict.. You take it?

as for where to start?... I'm not your guy.. I hate fishing rivers for the most part.. Love to float the Croix for smallies.. I fish slack water and current seams, and also in fast water and try to get a lure down...

I would guess in this pict, I would make a cast with a flipping tube as near to that fallen tree at its base and as near to the faster water near it as I could and hold on.. there has to be a fish there.

[Royce Aardahl]

I'd head up to the right above what looks like some rip rap and chuck a tube up as far as I could and let it drift back. Then I'd ask Fonz or DD to get the net!

[Tim_Anderson]

Jigs/tubes. Crank baits...shad raps and husky jerk-baits. Don't forget the spinnerbaits!

[Ray Esboldt]

Looks shallow to me. I might skip it as those types of deadfalls are usually nothing more than current breaks for roughfish. I might wing a spinnerbait at it, but if there are rough fish, I would move on up to that point and fish that.

However, this does look like a shallow stretch of river. I have drilled smallmouth on topwaters on shallow stretches on occasion. Those two stumps sticking up might be good targets, but the open water on a 2 foot flat is fair game as well.

[DancesWithWaves]

I would go with a spinnerbait and run that through there, if nothing, then i would toss a popper, regardless of the current.

[EBass]

A lighty weighted tube - skip towards shore behind said stump and work back slowly. Also don't forget to cast the face of said stump to. Prop style topwater ifn summer

[jermisch]

Jig worm...and try to drag it same speed as current...quiet and slow

[frogtosser]

cant believe you forgot the senkos, toss upstream and let the current bring it buy