Half-day Rainy River Run (3-14-16)

Two of us arrived at Birchdale just after noon, launched and set up in 14 f.o.w. Our first spot was a good one as we managed 20+ fish from that one anchor position in just a couple of hours, with half of them being 23-1/2″-25-1/2″. After the bite slowed we moved around quite a bit with only a few walleyes and one giant sturgeon to show for our efforts. It was amazing weather and a great afternoon on the water. Besides getting our first walleyes and sturgeon of the open water season, I got to enjoy my first open water sunset as well while my fishing partner fetched the truck. Open water is here!!

Cheers and hook-sets!

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Well done guys!

Very nice.

Very nicely done, fish of that quality are rare on the Missouri River anymore. Is it just me, but are the tails on those fish huge, especially picture #4?

4walleye wrote:

Very nicely done, fish of that quality are rare on the Missouri River anymore. Is it just me, but are the tails on those fish huge, especially picture #4?

It’s not you, every spring I say the same thing about pics from there. Huge tails!

Here is a bad pic of a 25-1/2 from monday, all tail!

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Sweet! Any problems on the ramp? Birchdale is said to be open; are guys backing in their sparkly boats? Or do we need to bring a 14′ or something?

lundojam wrote:

Sweet! Any problems on the ramp? Birchdale is said to be open; are guys backing in their sparkly boats? Or do we need to bring a 14′ or something?

There were a few sparkly ones but there was quite a bit of floating ice too. The ramp was good.