Hey folks, fishing has been fantastic here on the river the past couple days. With highs in the 40s and a very strong storm front rolling in, i finally made the trek to my favorite backwater northern spot.
This particular spot is a sand flat, surrounded by thick weeds. Often times, shad will come of the main river channel or from other areas, focus in on this sand flat, and hangout. Northerns in particular will hide in the thick weeds and attack when ready. As i watch on my vexilar screen, many times ill watch these thick red marks attack the baitfish, similar to what i saw in my perch report. This spot is only about 6ft max, which to me is very good northern territory.
After setting up 2 of our 4 tipups, we had our first flag, and boy was it a good one! After a good 7-10min battle, she was on the ice. It was a good 12.4lb, 38in hog! She didnt have the belly i thought i was gonna see on her, but the length and fight made up for that.
After that first fish, we had many flags and misses and what not. We ended up landing 2 14in perch that we caught on tipup/shiner combo which was a bit surprising to me. We ended up hooking into another nice northern, this one being about 34in.
All in all, the northern/bass action on the river is phenomenal! Fish seem to be very aggressive and in the feeding mood! Im sure that storm front helped out a lot yesterday as the bigger fish were the ones we were catching! Cant wait for saturday, we’ll be after the gators again!
Cody
-I’m having a hard time getting these pictures to turn out clear, sorry guys.
