pool 2

Does anyone know how deep pool 2 is? What are some of the deepest holes you guys have seen in p2?

Down town St paul under the bridge.

There are some holes over 40′ deep just upstream from the Lilydale landing.

How deep is that hole in St. Paul Mike?

Was thinking it hit 50 to 60′ in some spots there. Been a while since I have looked for the deep hole there.

Thanks guys… so basically the deeper holes are in the upper half of pool 2? Is that the case for most pools? All the sediment piles up downstream filling in the deeper holes after time?

That sounds like it might be right. There are some deeper holes in the backwaters below 494 and right along a mile marker rock pile just above a backwater entry in the main channel area that I just thought about.

Think I marked the St. Paul one at 56′ last time through, about a week or so.

There’s some good “holes” in other places Jiggin.

Any place there’s an obstruction the water (more so when flooding) flows faster around it’s edges and scours out a hole that will hold fish in lower flows.

Another source of holes is where barges “take the wall” waiting for a barge heading down stream. You’ll see them parked angled in to the shore. Then they hit reverse it creates a good size hole.

It doesn’t take much to hold a flat. When they sit at the head of a 2-3 foot hole the flow goes right over the top of them just as though the were sitting behind a log.

Just like Brian said. There are lots of “Holes” out there. From St Paul down to the airport you wont see much but once you start hitting wingdams there is deep water to be found. Dams both N and S of 494 have some great deep water behind them. Deepest dams in the Pool for the most part. The main channel is 14-19 ft of water on average from the Airport down to Spring lake. Outside edges are allways going to be Deeper and any obstruction will create even deeper water like Brian had mentioned. From the airport south you can find water 24-40 feet deep. The trick is finding the ones that have fish

Some of the best holes are ones well less than 24 fow. Its finding the ones that have the unique quality within an “area”.

Thanks guys. I have found a few deep holes but nothing over 40. I wasnt planning on fishing these holes, just wanted to get an idea on how deep pool 2 is.

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Thanks guys. I have found a few deep holes but nothing over 40. I wasnt planning on fishing these holes, just wanted to get an idea on how deep pool 2 is.

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tryin’ to get rid of a body?

Lol

Just a heads up, AIS checking going on below the 494 launch this morning.

Nice. Do they plan on filtering the river before it flows past that point too?

Thats a great place to be checking. Im assuming they are checking the boats before they are allowed to launch? Have never seen a zeb, milfoil, spiney water flea, ect on that stretch of river. Sure hope they are able to keep it clean.

I’ve been out on the Mississippi a handful of times now and from what I gather it’s going to be hard to develop a consistent pattern because of ever-changing water levels. Now with that being said, is there a resource that gives you up-to-date stream flow measurements? I figure flow measures have to be on the USGS website but I’m not smart enough to find it.

http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=mpx&gage=stpm5

-J.