Saturday I spent most of the day on Pool 4 fishing with TBO/MN. We got on the water at 7AM and started pitching plastics into slack water areas, on sand and clam beds, and some rip rap. We worked out way up to the dam and finally started to find some fish up there. The best presentation was a plain jig head with a fathead. We ended up catching about a dozen fish, most of them short fish and only a couple of Walleyes. The water themperature was a chilly 41 degrees. We also didn’t see much going on until early afternoon so it was a classic spring time bite: you needed some sun on the water to get the fish active. Sleep in!
Today Joe and I tried Pool 2. We launched at the 494 access and started working our way up stream, eventually all the way up to the confluence. It was a beautiful day to be on the water but the fishing was awful. Joe caught a quillback, and that was it. We talked to several other boats and they didn’t have any action either. Water temp was 45 degrees and the level has fallen about 2 feet in the last week. There’s some wood coming down river but it wasn’t bad.
Now on to the Rainy and some Sturgeon fishing!
Rootski
) start biting. Well as old as that may sound, for me it seems once the whities start to go, the walleyes are right there as well….Here is another one for you. Once the carp are wallowing i nthe shallows getting ready to spawn is PRIME time of the 
