Pool 4 bite or lack of

I know there is some experts on here and am wondering what slowed the bite,is it the current,lack of cool temps.

Water temps are up and climbing.

By “the bite has slowed” do you mean that you are catching 20 fish a day instead of 40 or 50? I haven’t been down to p4 for 3 weeks now. The last time I was there it was just getting going. The fishing was amazing. I was planning on going down this weekend, what is the projection?

I fished last Sat and Sun, as the bite was slowing. Sat I had 17 keepers. Sun I had 5-6. TONS of short fish both days.

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By “the bite has slowed” do you mean that you are catching 20 fish a day instead of 40 or 50? I haven’t been down to p4 for 3 weeks now. The last time I was there it was just getting going. The fishing was amazing. I was planning on going down this weekend, what is the projection?

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I mean like 4 or 5 fish that were light biters,not the fall bite I am used to.Where they meant business.

We kept 18 on Sunday and probably threw back another 15-20 14″+ Saugers. We caught fish steady pretty much all day. I will say that the guys pulling three ways seemed to be catching less than I’ve seen in the past month, but the bite was far from dead.

The key for us was to drift over the fish, we didn’t catch as many when we sat in one spot. Those fish are pretty spread out, and working the very edges of the current seams were where we found most of them.

I made my first fall trip to Pool 4 last weekend. On Saturday I got skunked even after mirroring the presentations of a few boats around me that were catching fish. On Sunday I reloaded with some new tackle and put 8 nice fish and another dozen little fish in the boat in 5 hours. I also watched another hundred fish get caught. I guess I don’t have anything to compare to, but I thought it was great fishing. Look at the report on the walleye & sauger forum. I watched this first hand.

Took a sick friend out yesterday afternoon from 1:30 to 4:00 and got 25 saugers and 2 walleyes between 3 of us.Hair jigs and minnows for Larry because he cant cast any more and paddle tails for Ron and me.The hits we got would put a bend in your rod. You cant catch them if your not fishing and when your having a slow day,somewhere someone is crushing them.

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I will say that the guys pulling three ways seemed to be catching less than I’ve seen in the past month, but the bite was far from dead.

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That would have been me

I was limited to 3-waying for a piece we were filming on Sunday. I saw that the bladers were doing just fine, which is actually typical for neutral to negative fish. Blades are a great way to coax a reaction strike out of those fish that just aren’t on the bite all that well. This is among the reasons that the mid-winter doldrums can be erased by a good blade fisherman.

I should mention I was there Mon.,It was a great day to be on the water.To much current for me to use blades and never had a hit with a jig.

Thanks for all the responses,sounds like I may have hit a off day,thats why they call it fishing,gonna try it agian this Fri.,cant wait.

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I should mention I was there Mon.,It was a great day to be on the water.To much current for me to use blades and never had a hit with a jig.

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Were you pitching or vertical with the blades?

FDR

The bite report really depends on who you talk to.In visiting with several anglers,the responses vary from fantastic to lousy with most stating “ok”. Somebody is always on em doing something,I promise you.

The suicidal crushing super slam plastic bite will only continue to improve! For now,chartreusse pepper is a pretty good hint though!

U guys are targeting the wrong species then…….The green carp having really been going with the recent warm up. I haven’t had to convert to chasing those pesky eyes and saugers yet.