As I watch the Lindner Family fishing for smallies on their new show, I have wondered if they aren’t catching those smallies on the Upper Mississippi. Is this a heavily fished area or do the many lakes in the area help in keeping the smallies a well kept secret?
nope……..no smallies on the river……you better try the lake in wisconsin for dem!!
LEM I’m not sure where it is geographically that you are writing this from but ever since about 15 years back when the oxygen levels in the mississippi backwaters dramatically decreased, causing massive weed kills. Which in turn killed off bait fish and many largemouth and northern pike. Well after that, or as so I am told. Bass and northern populations almost had to start over. Because now there was less vegetation the largemouth and the small mouth where competitors out in more open water. The small mouth as well as largies have made amazing recoveries but it is the smallmouth that is most noticed. You can find wing dams, sand points, and rock piles loaded with these hard fighting acrobatic fish in the summer. For some its hard not to catch smallies in the three pound class everytime they go out. I’ve found in my fishing, which may be a different approach than some, is that it is easier to target and predict small mouth on the mississippi than it is to consistantly catch largemouth of the same caliber. But then again thats just me.
let em go so they can grow
What did he just say????
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