Wisconsin Back Channel

  • Schmidtty
    Lake Elmo, MN
    Posts: 63
    April 16, 2002 at 2:01 pm #1327678

    Has anyone been having any luck in the Pool 4 back channel? I read the report in Outdoor News saying nice walleyes were being caught in the Goose Lake area. From what I’ve seen and heard there have not been many boats fishing the back channel.

    labsrule
    Elko
    Posts: 96
    April 16, 2002 at 2:04 pm #241208

    we fished the goose lake area on friday and never caught a fish. We really didn;’t graph a whole lot either. I know the fish are back there we just didn’t have time to find them. We did watch 3 really nice walleyes (all over 7lbs) get caught right by the back channel launch in a eddy along the lauch shoreline. good luck

    labsrule

    mavzer
    Hager City, WI
    Posts: 475
    April 16, 2002 at 5:07 pm #241230

    are you sure that they are talking about . … the same goose lake? I know that there are a bunch of goose lakes.. catfish sluoghs… etc… maybe they ment a different area… I fish the back channel a bunch and I have not seen a lot of activity around goose lake// iether

    labsrule
    Elko
    Posts: 96
    April 16, 2002 at 5:14 pm #241232

    That’s a good point since the fish really aren’t grouped up in that area yet. I don’t think that area would be in any articles already. I’m not sure what other goose lake it could be however. any ideas? like I said we were there friday with only 1 other boat and did not find any fish. There were a ton of boats out friday so if they were catching fish there they would have been at the goose lake i know of.

    labsrule

    Schmidtty
    Lake Elmo, MN
    Posts: 63
    April 16, 2002 at 6:15 pm #241240

    I know in the past that the report for “Red Wing” in ODN refers to the Goose Lake off the back channel. Someon posted last week asking if you needed a Wisc. license to fish in Goose Lake. I’ve always fished the channel outside of Goose but have heard people going back into the lake itself. Maybe someones been back there in the past and can tell us what’s back there?

    labsrule
    Elko
    Posts: 96
    April 16, 2002 at 6:25 pm #241241

    you do not need a wisc license to fish back there. boundary waters run from railroad track to railroad track on both sides of the river i believe. When the water is high I have heard of people fishing back there, but other than that it is real shallow and probably full of carp.

    labsrule

    nate-cadwell
    Rochester, Mn
    Posts: 498
    April 16, 2002 at 6:47 pm #241246

    Hey Steve

    I have been back there a few times and there is a great big 40-50 hole and on the edges of that can be good also there is some rock shoreline back there that can be good also.

    talk to you later

    labsrule
    Elko
    Posts: 96
    April 16, 2002 at 8:28 pm #241258

    what time of the year can it be good and using what back there. I have heard of people fishing it during the high water is that what time of year your talking about.

    labsrule

    bill_cadwell
    Rochester, Minnesota
    Posts: 12607
    April 16, 2002 at 11:49 pm #241285

    Hey Steve, I checked it out last Friday and not only did I “Not” find any fish but there wasn’t a single boat back there. Also checked some of the other spots in the backwaters and found nothing. Bill

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