Prop Guard

I am planning to fish for cat this summer on the St. Croix above Grantsburg WI. Small jon boat and about a six horse. Does anyone have any expeience/recommendations for a prop guard. Those rocks can be tough.

Thanks

I have fished the St Croix north of there before. The best prop guard is to use your oars. I would suggest canoeing the stretch you are doing. Once you know the water, then you will know where to use the motor and where not to. Be careful. It sucks to be way back in the sticks with a gone lower unit. There may be more water around Grantsburg than I am used to seeing. It is suicide to use a motor in the stretch that I fish. (where the Nemakagon joins the Croix).

Hey WK. I canoed down the Namakagon into the St. Croix once. It would difinitely be murder to drive even a small short shaft through there. We saw some army guys trying to navigate the shallows below the St. Cloud dam once. My buddy and I were shore fishing, we went over to try to help them and they told us to stay away because they couldn’t accept help. We had a good laught watching them get hung up again just after wrestling their boat off one rock for 15 minutes. Fishing was good that day too.

Sounds like water for a RiverPro

Yeeeee haawwwww Big Catch!!! I gotta get one of those. Dfresh. Try going to County T Bridge and canoeing that stretch. Make sure you don’t go alone. There is a rapids in that stretch called the big fish trap. First you have to be brave to go there. Second, the smallies are big and wild because few are brave enough to try it.

Hey WK. Is that on the Croix or the Nemakagon. When I went down the Nemakagon I was about 16 and we swamped our canoe in some heavy rapids. Can’t remember exactly where we were. But we canoed about 30-40 miles down the N into the Croix.

It is the St Croix. If you swamped on the Nemakagon don’t even think of trying the trap. It is hard for experienced people.