I’m looking to take my 86 year old father out fishing for a couple hours this weekend in the Wabasha area. Not sure where to start – we like white bass, smallmouth but would catch walleyes too – wherever we can find action.
We only do this a couple times per year so I don’t have a lot of experience here. If anyone would like to send a PM with any ideas on location, depth, lures would be great. He likes to cast a little, but use maybe live bait some too. Hope I can still cast when I’m 86! 
I would try the area between the bridge in Wabasha and Nelson. (Dike Road).
There’s a bunch of places you can shore fish.
You didn’t say if you would be in a boat or not?
You never know what you’ll catch…plenty of variety.
Minnow/worm under a bobber or casting whatever will work.
It’s a good area with a boat too.
I have a 16 foot tiller…so looking for shorelines, wing dams, depth, lure input. Thank you ~
I think the whitebass and walleyes will be tough to come by in the Wabasha area for the next month or so. Last weekend the whitebass were already up at the dam staging for the spawn, and I think the lion’s share of walleyes are in the process of spawning up there too.
If I were going in that area, I’d head 5 miles further South and fish the Alma dam. I haven’t been there yet this year, but there is a bait shop not too far from the launch that should be able to point you in the right direction.
If we were to cast along the Lacupolis shoreline rip-rap… do you think there would be anything biting along there?
Not that you couldn’t, but I don’t think it would be real productive.
If we were to cast along the Lacupolis shoreline rip-rap… do you think there would be anything biting along there?
I think that there would be better options for this time of year.
FDR
nothing at Alma last weekend,except for banged up prop… and I think that bait shop is gone in Alma? I put in on MN side, bait in Kellogg,Shorty,s.
If I were going in that area, I’d head 5 miles further South and fish the Alma dam.
… Is the Alma Fishing Float Open Now.? That can be good at times…..Ps That Is if the Alma float is still in business.?? I haven’t been down that way for many years… …rrr
floats still there,$18.00 for the day.
There is no longer a bait shop in Alma unless there is a new one within the past 6 months.
Dave
I was out a week ago Friday (Apr 3) and were catching lots of jumbo perch in the deep hole just down current of indian slough. There were a lot of fish then, and I would guess that there are even more now. Bass should start to move into the backwaters pretty soon now too. I would anchor downstream of the deep hole and cast into the current and allow the lure to float back to you. My pops had the best luck with fatheads. I was fishing heavier plastics looking for pre-spawn bass, but was not nearly as successful.
Michael-
Are you talking about the hole downstream of the “L” dams?
At 86 I think I’d be a bit concerned about having him traipsing around on uneven ground or any long distances. That said, take him to West Newton. The parking lots [paved] runs right up to a nice fishing dock at the canoe landing affording a short walk and solid underfoot. Panfish are always there.
We’ll be in a boat so looking for good shorelines or pockets of water to fish. He likes to catch white bass, smallmouth, and throwing Mepps, plastics, jigs, etc. Looks like we’ll be going this Friday or Saturday so if anyone has a recommendation of where to go first we are all ears
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