Okay, so I’m a couple days late, but Sunday I met up with LOSOJOS at Mcgregor and we hit the water for a day of fishing. We launched at noon and ended up catching just about everything that swims in the river.
Started out flipping for bass in running sloughs. What we found that was the bass seemed to be relating more to the grass than the wood, although we did end up pulling a couple out of the laydowns. Rumor has it that dogfish were active under the beaver huts, but no independent confirmation of that exists 
We did, however, end up hooking a sauger toward the tail end of the slough right under the boat in 4′ of water.
After a couple hours of this, we headed for a back channel with some decent depth and current, where we trolled cranks and ended up pulling some saugers out. In the first pass downstream, we had a couple of solid hits, but no connection. On the way back up, we doubled up, then pulled a third saug toward the end of the run. Both fish on the double flopped off at the boat, Losojos’ fish was unlucky enough to land inside and end up in the livewell. A sheeper also made it to the boat on this run. We made two more passes, but the grass and weeds were cramping our trolling style too much to really keep it up for long, so we tried just drifting and casting cranks. Again, the weeds and grass just got to be too much, so we gave it up and headed for the main channel.
Finished the day cranking a wingdam on the main channel (after hitting a shorter one with the motorguide 
). Another mixed bag, a solid eater sized eye (maybe 18-19?) made it to the boat, but slashed losojos’ thumb while trying to untangle it from the net, putting him more or less out of commission. In his few remaining casts he landed a good largemouth, and I followed that up with a smallie.
Our fish trolling and on the wingdams came on cranks, I was fishing a perch colored frenzy, he had on a JSR in firetiger. Bass in the backwaters came on purple worms. Great day on the water, nice weather, and a chance to meet and fish with someone new. Doesn’t get much better than that; thanks LOSOJOS.
Now a question for the rest of ya. If you were in that back channel, knew you were on active fish, and had to deal with the grass throughout the water column like it was, what tactics do you think you’d switch it up to? I thought about tying on a three-way, but the weight would be an instant weedball. Maybe this was a situation where gigantic plastics come into play?
