Pool 4 is still right where we left it. The dragging bite has slowed some but there are still plenty of decent fish to be caught. Dad and I didn’t get on the water until right about 4pm and it wasn’t long before the fish started showing up. It took some fine tuning but after some sorting we found that shad-cracker ringers were the hot ticket boating over half our fish for the night. A close second were black and gold ringworms. Beyond that the only thing we noticed was you’d catch one fish here and there on any of the natural colors. We stayed until 10pm and caught fish the whole time, it wasn’t fast and furious by any means but 1-2 fish per pass was common. We caught a few short fish as well as a few that went back in, one of which was a chunk of a 19″ sauger. These fish sure are healthy this year as even the small fish were chunky. Our bite consisted of a pretty healthy mix of eyes and sauger with some decent eyes starting to show up.
February 7, 2012 at 12:51 pm
#1333394
What a beautiful night on the river—not hardly any breeze and a big old full moon. Heck, even the skeeters weren’t bad!!! The boy schooled me pretty good and I am fine with that–I got my nap in and managed to catch a couple fish so I am happy. This is the best dragging bite I have seen for a couple years and it is sure nice to see it shaping up so well. All the fish are fat and very healthy looking and there are plenty of the 16 to 18 inch fish for the pan. We did notice that the sauger and 
