What a tough bite! Reminded me of Pepin 3 weeks ago. Prefished all of my old spots for 2 days. Managed to put 3 small fish in the boat. Saturday I decided to pull bouncers and plain snells on an old clam bed that always holds some fish. Used crawlers and leeches. Fish were really finicky, had to hold the boat still to get any action. Pulled 8 eyes all day, but only two measured. Those 2 small eyes put us in 11th after the first day. Our net must have had a boat magnet in it. Soon as we started using it, went from 3 boats close to the spot to 20. Started at the same spot on Sunday. Pulled a 3.9 early, but the 30+ boats that showed up shut the fish down even more than they already were.
Moved to a sand flat with about 1 hour left to fish. Pulled Deep thundersticks at about 3mph. Got three nice sauger on three passes. It was so slow that those 4 fish moved us up to 7th. Terrible weather, terrible bite, but a bad day of fishing………….. Keep it vertical.
September 10, 2001 at 7:30 pm
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