Power Plant and Fishing on P-4?

  • Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 60010
    October 30, 2011 at 6:49 pm #1333228

    Question?

    This is a fishing ONLY question.

    Do you feel the P-3 Power Plant affects the POOL 4 fishing in a negative or positive way?

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 60010
    October 30, 2011 at 6:51 pm #1005227

    Speaking of walleye and sauger only.

    Wade Boardman
    Grand Rapids, MN
    Posts: 4469
    October 30, 2011 at 7:05 pm #1005229

    I can’t vote as I’ve not been around here long enough. However I have read a lot of research that indicates the warm water discharge out of the power plant has drastically changed the fishing. For good or bad I’m not sure.

    trumar
    Rochester, Mn
    Posts: 5967
    October 30, 2011 at 8:47 pm #1005237

    Quote:

    Question?

    This is a fishing ONLY question.

    Do you feel the P-3 Power Plant affects the POOL 4 fishing in a negative or positive way?

    Are we talking all year long or seasonal ?

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 60010
    October 30, 2011 at 9:03 pm #1005240

    Spose we should keep it to fall/winter.

    gary d
    cordova,il
    Posts: 1125
    October 30, 2011 at 9:29 pm #1005247

    We have a power plant down here also and sometimes I wonder if it screws up spawnning fish that live around the discharge area of the plant.The temperates that the fish go by. Years ago it use to freeze all the way across ,but now it has to be extreme cold for it to do it.

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 60010
    October 30, 2011 at 9:34 pm #1005249

    Comments are welcome, but let’s try to keep the poll about fishing.

    wimwuen
    LaCrosse, WI
    Posts: 1960
    October 30, 2011 at 10:18 pm #1005258

    One way that I know it helps the bite is the fact that I can get on the water (not the ice) in the middle of winter. If I can’t get my boat out, I’m sitting in one hole at a time hoping the fish come through. In a boat, I can move around, cast etc… We see the same thing at Genoa vs Pool8.

    rvvrrat
    The Sand Prairie
    Posts: 1842
    October 30, 2011 at 10:33 pm #1005266

    Quote:

    Comments are welcome, but let’s try to keep the poll about fishing.

    Considering the source of that post….

    85lund
    Menomonie, WI
    Posts: 2317
    October 31, 2011 at 12:06 am #1005298

    I wouldn’t know they were biting if it was frozen

    jakefroyum
    Posts: 94
    October 31, 2011 at 1:03 pm #1005370

    I don’t think the plant raises the temp of the rest of the water enough to keep it from freezing. I thought that was more of a current and a lot of water volume deal. I read somewhere that when you get down stream only a little way there is no measurable difference in temps related to warmwater discharge. Am I wrong?

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 60010
    October 31, 2011 at 3:20 pm #1005422

    Opinion to follow:

    I think the discharge does help the bite in spring and fall to some extent. If I recall correctly, the plant can’t discharge water more than 5 degrees above the main rivers temp.

    I know that when I fish around the discharge, watching my temps of the sonar there’s hardly a notable change.

    In talking with Mrs. Everts, she was saying that before the dam, they drove their trucks to the other side of the river as she pointed to the MN shore line across from the resort.

    I do believe the dam has more to do with open water than the little warm water coming from the discharge.

    I don’t believe the plant has hurt the fishing/bite and may have helped it on the upper end of P-4…at least from my armchair.

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