Zamer and I along with two buddies made a short trip to Red Wing to fish for walleyes. Reports the week prior was very encouraging with nice size of keepers to the sows that were coming in. I had reports of one guide boat landing 4 10+pounders with several 26 through 29 inchers filtered in through the previous week before we got there. This sounded very enticing to me as we had to scrub our trip to Erie due to wind and water clarity that was present @ Port Clinton, OH. 8′ waves and water darker than chocolate milk was not calling me to the the big lake. We tossed around the thought of fishing the Detroit river then, and the wind on the lake pushed the river level up 3 to 4 feet. So we scraped it for Red Wing.
At Red Wing, MN. Pool 4, Zamers boat was the guide boat with Steve being the caption and Mike was his first mate. The two of them combined reportedly have around 35 years of experience on pool 4. It was the first trip for me, Bob and my boat. We fished from the dam @ the start of pool 4 to the beginning of Lake Pippin. Steve was the first to catch a walleye on Thursday and was first to catch a crappie on Friday. Mike caught his first walleye on Friday. I had my first bite on Thursday while Bob had his line hung up several times easily on both days! We fished jig and a minnow, hair jigs tipped with and without minnows, plastics, spinners, power corked, dead stick, pulled stick baits, diving crank baits and well, we varied the speed from .7 to 2.8 mph,,,,,,,,,,,,, . I think you get it.
There was about a 1.5 mph river flow with water temps 39 to 42.5 degrees. Skies were mostly sunny with the air temps not quite touching 60 degrees after burning off the morning frost. Winds stayed nicely light with out much variation.
It was very enjoyable to be on the water with the days conditions. The two biggest catches were the rays from the sun and the buzz 
that lingered into the night playing cards after a couple of excellent evening meals.
