Requesting Pool 4 Update

I’m tryin’ the Red Wing Dam area Monday afternoon and evening, 4/17, with a Texas Bass man as a partner. Anyone have an update?

I spent 7 hours last Friday, 4/14, starting before first light pitching plastics against the shore near the wing dams with no luck. I went then into the lock channel with some other boats and vertical jigged plastics (someone fishing there said they bit that way the day before), vertical jigged minnows and lindy rigged some minnows (like another guy was doing) with no luck. By mid day, I then went back to the sand on the north side of the channel near the damn, anchored and almost immediately picked up two sauger and had another one on pitching plastics.

I only saw six or eight fish caught all day, and was told the bite was tough because the walleyes were spawned out. It was a beautiful day, though. And I feel better about boat control and my pitching techniques.

The Walleye spawners are long gone…There will always be a few dropping back for a while. If you read my report”High water Hot bite”…our action was through Thursday 4/13 but two of my friends fished the same Friday afternoon until dark and caught over 20 keeper size Sauger…some up to 21″… pitching plastics along the Wisc shore and well up into the trees. The Sauger should be thick as fleas up there by now.

Use the lightest jig possible and work it as slow as possible…just let it slowly wash down with the current…it all boils down to presentation and technique. Its hard for me to tell you about it.
One guided trip on Pool 4 with James, Jarad, Dustin, DeZee, Vandy…any one of the River Guides is worth 20 years of stuggling on your own. I am not just tooting their horns…I have been fishing(both professionally and Guiding) for many years and yet have taken several trips with these guys to learn the techniques…believe me it has been an incredible learning experience. Now I am one of “those guys” who catches lots of fish on the Pool. I hope that my answer will be helpful to you. If you get a buddy to split the cost it is really very reasonable for what you get out of it.

I made it out on Good Friday as well and I also felt the bite was a bit off although I did get this fish on a purple/chartreuse tail ringworm that went a hair over 27″. We caught plenty of other fish but the majority were under 15″. Anchoring up near current seams or prowling along with your trolling motor and working from the seam towards shore is probably still your best bet for numbers. Boat traffic on Monday should be lighter than last Friday so you should have better access to the popular areas you may have seen boats clustered up on last week.

We took fish on ringworms, k-grubs, superdoos, hair jigs and blade baits(sonars), and found them as far down as Hay Creek. Definitely pay the ramp fee to launch at Everts and get the latest info from The Man Dean!

Chris

Crankbait, Was that you and the wife/girlfriend I talked to briefly below the Vermillion friday? I did alright with what I was doing,but nothing like the one you got! Nice!!!!

I was in the grey Crestliner/white Johnson with the dog.

Chappy, Yep that was us!