Pool 4 3/17 & 3/18 weekend report(s)

  • Paul Heise
    River Falls, Wi
    Posts: 723
    #1333518

    Please add your reports if you wish.

    The weather was great almost to nice for early spring fishing. It brought out a lot of fisherman as many of you know. I found Saturday to be very good fishing. My dad and I put in an almost full day (7-5) and came up w/ 24-26 fish. Pretty respectable and exceding our expectations! The surprise of the morning was this 25″ cpr’d from an obvious location:(the dam)



    We kept 4 eater sauger all caught by the dam for our Friday fish fries, and released 6-8 females that were around 17.5″+ that will hopefully make it to the spawn. Left the dam around 11 becuase if just got too crowded and fished all the community spots down to Baypoint and couldn’t put together a decent bite on any one spot except for the dam. All fish came on hair jigs and minnow various colors. We didn’t catch a single fish on plastics.

    Heres a couple just shy of 17″ we kept:



    A nicer picture but trying to make them look bigger



    Sunday they seemed a little tougher to swindle into biting we only boxed 2, 1 at 15.5″ and the other 16.5″ from 7-noon. I’m excited to see the bite pick up as this is my first year fishing pool 4 before the spawn because I’m usually chasing those late ice pannies and then I don’t have time to think about fishing until the Croix or Wis. openers.

    Jack Naylor
    Apple Valley, MN
    Posts: 5668
    #1050245

    Nice going Paul,

    Very nice fish, I think I recognize the guy over your left shoulder. I’ll have to call him

    Paul,

    I also wanted to say, Welcome to IDO.

    Jack

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 60010
    #1050249

    Nice going guys!!

    timschmitz
    Waconia MN
    Posts: 1652
    #1050329

    Hey I fished next to you Sunday morning for a little while I was the guy in the 16ft flatbottom. It was a little slow up by the dam so I made the move to the can line and busted out the 3 ways and sticks. From 9:00-2:00 I think I had around 20-25 saugers with the biggest being a 23″. It didn’t seem to matter which direction I was going as long as I had something blue on.
    It was a great feeling to get off the river and walk into the shop and hear laughter again! It’s great to have Evrets back

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