I hit the Croix near Bluffs park at 6:30 this morning with my father in law. While we had heard that the bite north of Kinni had been unbelievable the last 3 days, we decided to fish the sandbar out in front of the harbor first. By 7 we I boated our first two fish, one 16 and one 14. I was using a 3 foot lindy rig with orange blade and a large leech. We released both and continued to fish up the west bank towards Kinni right off the lip. A couple misses 
, a nice sheapie, and a fat smallie later we decided to try the north mouth of kinni at about 8:30.
We had seen boats run there all morning. When we got there about 6 boats were positioned. Some bumping around with electrics or kickers and others anchored. We tried a few different presentations including cranks, plastics, and our lindy rigs with no luck. We fished there for about an hour and only saw a single fish caught.
Having had enough of the crowd, at 10:30 am we headed back to the west shore just north of Bluff’s park. With the kicker kicking we threw additional plastics which earned us quite possibly the smallest rock bass in the St. Croix. Back to lindy’s and the favorite orange blades. We instantly boated 2 more eyes in 19 feet of water. The first was a healthy 19 and the second was 17. We both asked ourselves why we made the kinni run in the first place. 
We ran out of leeches at about 12:15 and packed it in.
At the launch we spoke with another guy who said that the last 3 days they had caught many, many fish north of Kinni. Today he had caught 1. He blamed in on the rain. 
All I know is that today was a lot better that sitting behind my desk at work. 
