St Croix Catfishing – 15 May

Fished the St Croix from 5:30pm to 8:30pm. Water temp was 57 degrees (brr!!), water elevation is at 675 feet which is normal summer flow. Called it quits with the rain and the bottom of the 8th inning with the Twins winning. It was cold, wet and the fishing was slow. I had on all my icefishing clothes so I wasn’t too bad but the weather just wasn’t catfishing weather. I caught one northern at 7:15pm on cut bullhead. Drowned a live bullhead on one of my rods most of the evening with no takers. A few days ago the water temp was up to 65 and today she is back down to 57. This spring has been kind of a roller coaster ride. The catfishing is going to break any day now and I think the water temp is the key.
The bullheads were biting on Lily Lake. I couldn’t catch those either but there were 2 little kids there with their dad and they filled my bucket for me. Thank God for little kids and their bullhead luck. All I had to do was take them off the hook for them.

Comanchero,

Had the same problems. It will break any day, lucky I am on vacation next week. I tried for 5 hours without a nibble. The water is still a bit dirty from the big storms that went through. The next time the water is clear, I would keep toes and fingers out of the water.