With a drastic drop in temperature and pretty high winds it was hard to be real optimistic about my first real trip to Pool 4. I have fished it twice before but both were trips straight to the damn and I was the passenger along for the ride.
With my father and father in-law along we started our day searching for attractive current seams close to deep water. We hoped to find some big girls in these locations and we did find a couple….but not until 1:00pm with sun high in the sky.
The two bigs for the day were a healthy 27″ and 24″ walleye both caught in less than 9 feet. Purple pink tale ringworm and a jig minnow snapped aggressively took these fish. I noticed an aggressive snap helped take fish in the middle of the day when the bite was a bit slower.
We also caught roughly 20 sauger in 12-15ft and found some seams loaded with white bass which are a blast to catch.
Throw in the two bonus smallies and it was a fun and productive day on pool 4 with much learned about this area on my behalf for future trips.
Good luck to all and enjoy this early spring weather! I also want to say I greatly enjoy and apprecite this forum!
Geoff Mead
Probably a dead give away where this fish was caught…..
I do the same thing! I will have to start charging a “guide fee” for as many fish(although no big ones, except for a couple for myself) I have put them on thanks to the info from this great site.
