You guys wouldn’t believe the speed of the Cedar here coming through town. I’m not kidding and I know its going past at a solid 15 mph, you’d be on a fairly fast run to out run it. I’m pretty sure the DNR has a ban on boats being on the river right now,,,but some of the flooded timber looks reallly reallly good, to run a few trotlines from tree to tree. Its too bad too because just a 100 yrds off the main channel and alot less current is alot of very good looking spots.
I sat at the end of an asphault road that the rest of the road went into and was under water. I picked up about 3 dozen crawlers that were coming out of the water onto the asphault road within 20 feet of my car, in about 3 hrs. All were crawling right around my car. You could see them crawling in the grass just in and out of the water, turn your head and 30 seconds later there would be another 3 right at your feet.
I fished shallow thinking the catfish may be in feeding but they weren’t, maybe it was the freshly cut grass, I think they were out deeper. Maybe they already had thier stomachs full or just weren’t feeding in the freshly cut grass that was cut a few days befor. The flooded timbers close to the river just looked to good and from experience Its a really good bet thats where they were.
Going to try to find a place tomorrow, maybe in the creeks because they ought to be falling but the fish will still be in them within a mile of the river. A couple days ago the grass buldup that hung up on the sinkers made it almost impossible to fish, even in slow back current areas. Not as much rain within the last two days so the creeks may be a go now.
