thanks for the report… sounds pretty much like it has been… good bite morn and late afternoon… tough bite under high sun and clear skies…. the more pressure the tougher the bite….. but there are some nice fish there…..
I will be out tommorrow… and I know of a number of other FTR guys that will be out too… so you can bet its get while the gettings good!
Chappy342 and I will also be down around noon or so. Rivereyes,leave a couple for us OK!
Here is a piggy from today. Chappy’s, I will be down there fishing with Scott Fairbairn. We will have my boat. Try to get there earlier if you can, the bite gets tough later on…
Tuck
good post Steve, hope you have not been over worked, NO sleeping in for you this weekend. save me a parking spot. Jack.
Overworked, underpaid, underappreciated…..the list just goes on and on Jack!!!haha. Ok, it’s not that bad! Hey, I got to go fishing today even! After seeing and hearing all the good reports, I just had to go out and try it. I had a great evening bite. Caught 30-40 walleye and about 5 sauger. The biggest fish was 19 inches. Almost all the walleye were in that 14-14.99 inch range. They all came out of about 3-8 foot of water. I went back to the good old K-grub! I caught them on just about every color, but firecracker, Junebug and Pearl S&P were definitely the better ones. I even tried a “Stewarts pro Blue” ringworm……just for you Dustin! Even that caught fish! Overall the size for me wasn’t anything to brag about, but could have kept a limit of “eater” fish. 1/8 oz jig worked well, but could/should have had 1/16 oz jigs. Even though most of these fish weren’t “big”, they still smacked the you know what out of them K-grubs! Man, I just love pitchin those things…..Guess I have been converted from a vertical jig fisherman.
On a side note. I started the day out by pitching 1/8 oz purple hair jigs. I caught about 5-6 fish on that and they were all small…..so I decided to switch to the K-grub. When I reeled up my hairjig, I didn’t hook the jig on the rod, just left the 3-4 feet of line hang over the back of the boat in case I wanted to use it again. So as i’m fighting a fish on my K-grub, my other St. Croix with the hair jig starts to be pulled into the river!!!! I quickly grabbed it and just lifted it up. On the end was a 16 inch walleye!! He was probably about 2 foot down and I was anchored in 20 ft of water. Talk about weird. I remember somebody mentioned this happened with a ringworm a couple weeks back. Maybe we should start using slip bobbers and drifting up there??????hmmmmmmmm.
*wow*…
thanks for the info steve… that suspended thing.. whats up with that? this is actually the THIRD bite someone has reported this way!…. way weird… I wonder if its kind of like bass… and other eyes are following the hooked fish.. each report seemed to take place when another fish was being brought in… in clear water I have seen eyes follow a hooked fish….. and they were trying to see if they could get into the action….. maybe we should be using 2 jig rigs?
Rivereyes:
I remember days when we were pitching countdown rapalas at them (resevoir, sp.?) and we would have several at the boat. Good theory as to having those suckers up at that level in the depth of water fished. I am looking forward to getting down there to start fishing the moving water there as the ice fishing season ends up here tomorrow night. You guys keep up the good working trying to figure ’em out so I can come down and apply your techniques right away and miss out ’cause I’m just off with some damn thing.
Mark Benson
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