Saturday Nov 10th Rock River Outing

Wefish and I fished hard Saturday for 8 hours to take home four nice keepers for the frying pan. Fish were caught in 9 to 11 fow on some plastic and a few on big fathead minnow. It was good to see Ed and Bob out fishing hard also. Looks like rain all day today(Sunday)so wouldn’t get out until next Friday. Wefish did ok running the trolling motor all day, man it’s nice fishing from the back of the boat, very relaxing. water temps 45 and water very low and still going down, be careful, walleye fishing is picking up since last week, need the rain, rain will help the bite. I have been picking up shorts also, blade baits have been starting to work good to. Time to grab some blade baits, 2-tone color nuckle ball jigs 1/8 and 1/4 oz, plastic’s (Berkley ribworms, pattletails, ringworms) and a few nice big fatheads for back up and get on the water. Hope to cya you all on the water next week, good luck to all the deer hunters.

Well, to say I fished hard is not exactly what I was doing. With a 7 and 9 year old aboard, my main task was keeping them interested, so we kept the snacks rolling out, chased the white bass, and got a few nice ones. But the 7 year old schooled us, with a sauger on the first drift, and a nice crappie on the second, both after setting the rod in a rod holder so he could unwrap his candy. Good stuff for sure, and a very nice afternoon to be out. Glad to see the eyes and sauger are starting to show up. Now I just need to find the time to go chase them some more.