POOL 4

WELL SOME ONE MUST OF LEFT THE GATE OPEN AND ALL THE SAUGGYS WENT TO A NEW PASTER.
STARTED OUT AT THE DAM ,THATS WERE I LEFT THEM THE LAST TIME I WAS THERE. DID NOT EVEN GET A TAP,CHANGED UP EVERY THING BUT MY SOCKS.AFTER TRYING OUT OUTHER SPOTS STILL NO ONE WANTED TO PLAY.FOUND A LITTLE SPOT THAT WAS FULL OF BAIT ,THINKING THAT AT SOME TIME A FIH OR TWO WOULD GET ACTIVE I STUCK IT OUT THERE FOR A WHILE. A FISH OR TWO WAS RIGHT ,ENDED OUT WITH 2 SHEEPHEADS, AND 2 SAUGGYSTHERE . WENT BACK TO DAM FOR THE EVE. BITE BUT AFTER 2 DRIFTS AND NO FISH I LEFT ,ON THE WAY BACK I TRYED SOME DRAGGING AND GOT NO TAKERS.JUST A TUFF DAY FOR ME , ANY ONE GET INTOEM YESTERDAY?

Are the rollers at the dam still unchanged?

I talked with Dustin about his outing yesterday. He had a tough go of things near the dam but got into some nice fish down near Red Wing.

Dean, DeeZee and I hit pool 2 yesterday afternoon and just murdered the fish. Dean had five, yes FIVE, fish from 7 – 9 lbs himself! Pitching ringies on wingies.

I’ll put up pics soon.

AS FAR AS I COULD TELL, YES THEY WERE.
HEY BLUE ,ASK DEAn for the fish taco resp. i left .
every one just fliped over them

ALRIGHT! glade to see that things went well for outhers out there
just makes me want to leave right now,

Arrrrrrgggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh!!! James, I’m so jealous! I might as well be on the river today since from this point forward I’m not going to get anything done.

Riverfan with anice eye from yesterday.

Goosekiller shown here with a recent piggie.Congrats to these bass guys gone bad!LOL

Dustin and partner Tom P with a nice batch of eaters.They had several fish much bigger than this that went back to the river!I believe paddletails contributed to there success.

Riverfan with a nice one this morning.

I did notice the far right roller was down on wed.. I do not know if it had been down or not before yesterday.

We fished from about from 9am to 3:30 – 4 in the afternoon. Two fish got off and no other bites. Jigging, pulling plastics, 3-waying…up by the damn, below the “Y” and a few other spots, nothing At least the sun was out. Pretty discouraging day.

I think the guy in the picture might be Hisser intead of Riverfan?

Tough day for us…six fish. Didn’t even have a whole lotta “misses” either . Still had a great day…good company, 40 degrees, open water, January in Minnesota Next time.

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The bite was slower for me on Wednesday than it has been on the past couple of outings. Morning started out slow, never really picked up for me and my customer. Hi-talied it out of the dam area mid morning and found some fish down yonder. Anything white was the trick for my boat. Oyster shell and plain white paddle tails along with the silver glitter(white)superdoos on white 5/16oz precision heads did all the damage on this day. Out of 24 nice sauger, plus the couple of eye’s we had nothing came on the ol’ reliable chartreuse colors

Looks like I should have locked thru to pool 2 for the evening bite with the 3 stooges . Best fish of the day for my boat on pool 4 was a fat sauger just short of 5lbs.

I was out this afternoon and just for giggles decided to see how far downriver I could go. I ended up all the way down at point-no-point where the ice-bergs started getting a little heavy. I was pitching rip-rap, dragging sand, anchored on a wingdam. Nothing… But I was out on a lake/river with my boat on January 12th in MN. Can’t beat that with a stick.

Looked like a few folks were catching saugers below the bridge just after the no-wake zone.

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We managed 5 for the evening. All piggies, but yeah, I agree. The bite has slowed significantly! Even the fish we cleaned for my uncle had only 1 shad in the belly. Quite a change! Maybe the food source moved somewhat, and the saugers are following. Maybe we need more clouds again!

Dean. That goes to show you anyone can catch those stinkin’ EYE’S!!!