Pool 4 Fishing Report Cat’s and More

From first hand knowledge the flats are biting. We didn’t get into anything to write home to mom about. Largest was 15 pounds coming in on bullheads using 8/0 Team Catfish Super J’s.

Jesse missed more fish in one night than I personally caught all last year! I’m guessing they were small fish because the rod never loaded up. He just felt the weight, then set the hook without the rod ever loading.

We where fishing a large eddie that dropped into 30 feet of water from the shallows.

Water temp Friday was 64, but I’m thinking it dropped a little since then.

The White Bass are on fire. I didn’t fish for them, but my friends came in each day with limits on Mimic Minnows. Actually, pretty much anything that moved in the water will catch a white bass right now when fished close to shore when the are busting those shoreline minnows.

How to locate them? Motor along shore 40 to 50 feet out and watch near the rocks (rip rap). When a splash occurs, start casting (pitching) to that area. Use a light enough jig head to keep the bait off the bottom. Keep your boat far enough away as to not spook the fish.

The limit on P4 is 25. For the people that have a hard time counting, I suggest stopping at 24…or take what you need and leave the rest.

Walleyes are being caught with some work. From the info I’ve heard, there isn’t one best presentation. Everything is working, but nothing is working well with the higher flows and muddy waters. Find clean water current seams and generally you’ll find a white tip. Back waters seem to be cleaner. Tribs are spewing dirty water.

The channel cats haven’t slowed down. Reports from tourney anglers talk of big channels (+10 pounds) just crushing live chubs. Stink baits like Secret 7 and Sudden Impact are still working very well. Find some wood in the water and fish your stink above it. No bites in 10 minutes? Move on to the next location and do the same. Once located, stay there. There will be more.

As the river rises there will be more debris coming down stream. You can bet there will be trees coming down stream.

Stay safe out there!

Thanks for the Multi Species report BK!

FDR

Be very careful out there.

We ended last night on the Minnesota river around midnight.

We had to dodge monster trees on the way back up stream, it was more than creepy.

As far as the Minnesota River goes, I would stay off the river for at least a few days.

When we started the night – the debris was decent, mid way through the night we watched trees 10x the size of the boat pass by us every few minutes, at the end of the night we had to stay outside of the current seams or risk sinking the boat.

There were a few times coming back up river that we had to navigate through the current seam and debris to get to the slack water – not a fun task when you just watched 4 monster trees floating down the minute before.

Be careful out there! Always wear those PFD’s!

Yeah yeah, it is dangerous, but did you catch any FISH?

There were some logs coming out of the Trimbel on Sunday, but sure didn’t see anything like you’re describing…but again, with rising water and more so with fast rising water…keep an eye out!

For you guys worried about trees…. Check this out<<

PFD are a boaters best friend.

I’ve been a passenger when hitting something at slow speed in the middle of the night…twice. I make sure I pee before we pull anchor now after dark. I even get nervous full throttle in a lake. It’ll ruin you I tell you.

Down here Brian as the waters coming up I move into really shallow water at 3 ft. or less. The reason why is because the rising water is washing crawlers out of thier holes and all the baitfish are right along the edge, not so much shad but the minnows are. I’ve seen 7 to 10 pound channels in water so shallow and right along the edge, looking for crawlers that thier dorsal fins were out of the water and thats the truth. Heck I’ve seen them swim over gravel roads that had just a couple inches of water going over them, going from one spot to another. I fish from about 4′ to the edge of the grass on the riverbank when the waters coming up, especially on a fairly slow rise.

you just gotta close your eyes and give er!

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you just gotta close your eyes and give er!

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I’m not sure if Pug knew that’s what I do.

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Yeah, there are times when you open up the throttle where I am closing my eyes…

…and praying.

Just because the depth finder is flashing zero does not mean there’s need to worry.

Planning is everything from how much gas to have in the tank to removing the extra anchor.

How was I to know you had a second helping at dinner the night you had to get out of the boat to make it float?