wing dam

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wing dam

[′wiŋ ‚dam]

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Steve Alexander says the body was spotted by two fishermen near a wing dam by Cathedral Park.

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To hunt from the boat, Walvoord beaches it against a wing dam, sandbar or peninsula.

Duck Hunter's Cult Classic: an old military barge makes for one heck of civilian bird boat

At each randomly selected fish sampling site, macrohabitat was stratified into BW = backwater, MCB-U = main channel border unstructured, MCB-W = main channel border wing dam, SC = side channel, TRI = tributary mouth, TWZ = tailwater zone, and IMP = impounded (i.e., open water; Gutreuter et al., 1995).

American eel population characteristics in the Upper Mississippi River

Less active, feeding walleyes often group behind a current break like a bridge abutment, wing dam, fallen tree, natural point, or rockbar.

Flow control: where current & floats match

When I want to cast and swim something slowly across the face of a rock spine or wing dam, it's a 4-inch Z-Man Scented PaddlerZ on 3/8-ounce HeadlockZ HD head (3/0 hook version).

Grinding RIVER WALLEYES

Influence of wing dam notching on fish, aquatic invertebrates, hydrographic relief, current velocity, substrate, water temperature, and dissolved oxygen in Pool 13, upper Mississippi River.

Fish assemblages of natural and artificial habitats within the channel border of the upper Mississippi River

Schools of walleyes and saugers congregate in a 3-mile section below the Red Wing dam, offering winter-weary walleye anglers their first taste of open-water paradise.

Prime time: River Walleyes

An example would be water rushing up to a wing dam, speeding across the top, then stalling and forming a pool of sorts.

Bank jobs: shallow casting tactics for more walleyes now

A few hundred yards downstream a float dives under behind a wing dam, where dozens of chunky 8- to 10-inch bluegills set up in the main river.