Gills on the Croix

According to DNR studies you need to go to pool 4.

This is a fish that has been exploited up and down the river and has been over harvested. All panfish take a beating, as soon as word gets out there is a good bite going on.

I don’t know the answer, but I do remember the days.

You can say what you want but the bluegills and Crappies have gone down in quality and numbers where I live on the river.
Shawn

I have only fished the river thoroughly throughout the past three years, but there seems to be plenty of fish over eight inches where I live. It of course helps if the water is high like it is now.

Haven’t seen the schools on the graph nor caught ’em pulling crawlers like I have in the years past, heck even used to get a few 10″+ pulling cranks.

That’s what I thought. Bummer. I liked to target them once or twice a year. That water makes for tasty gills. Some bodies of water are like that.

Those lousy catfish must be eating them. B.K. and his no good shenanigan fish