Gary and I couldn’t stand it any longer so we spent the afternoon on Pool 2. We launched at Willy’s and tried to find some active fish. We found one Walleye trolling a shoreline current seam, and a few Smallies hanging around the slack water in front of a daymark. The water is still 3 or 4 feet above normal level and the current is still pretty strong. Once again I was reminded that I’m not Mike or Jon or…..we worked pretty hard but had little to show for it.
One Smallie did something to me that I’ve managed to avoid in 50 years of fishing. He hooked me. He hooked me good! I had to shove the hook the rest of the way through so I could bend down the barb and back it out again. I can imagine what he told his buddies: “I don’t know what happened! I had the guy hooked really good but he got off”. Oh, and this happened after I forgot to put in the drain plug. I guess that’s why they put bilge pumps in boats.
Note: The 494 access is still closed. However Lion’s Levee is OPEN. The dock is partially underwater but people were launching and getting out. The cans are all over the river. The “power line wingdam” has a red can sitting right on top of it, 50 feet from shore. We saw a big pile of timber coming right down the middle of the channel with a green can bobbing up and down in the middle of it. Be careful out there!
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