Pool 4 Report 8/5/2007

Fished poole 4 on Sunday. Started by throwing cranks to the rocks and sand points from Pine Creek up to Solar Panel Bay. NO Walleyes. Trolled the head of the lake. No fish. Started trolling at Bogus Point down to Pepin Wisc. No fish. Trolled Dairy Queen bay at Lake City. No fish. Finished the day trolling at Hoksala. Still NO fish. Tried about every color and stlye. Nothing worked. Fished from the shore line out to 20 feet of water. Everyone else seeing the same thing when trolling? I noticed alot of baitfish in the water. I assume there is so much food for the fish to eat, they do not have to chase any baits. Let us all know if you find anything going.

We were down there on Sunday and produced the same results as you. We Trolled 4 lines from 6:00a to 2:00p and not one walleye or sauger to show for it. Probably the slowest fishing I have seen in a while. The areas we fished were point No Point to the head of the lake, Maiden Rock Flats area, the wisconsin side from pine river down to Stockholm, and from Central point back up to Long point. We changed baits, speed, depth range, every thing we could think of. You do see a lot of bait fish so I’m sure the eyes and saugs are well fed. I don’t think the cold front helped matters.

The only action we had all day was from white bass. Right about when were going to wrap up trolling we saw hundreds of of them surfacing/feeding. We followed them around for awhile casting into the schools and ended up catching one about every third cast.

Anyone else fish Four this weekend?

Bagley

I was on 4 as well on Sunday. Caught about a dozen walleyes at the head of the lake dragging crawlers, problem was, they were all 12-13″ and were all within a 100 yard stretch. Also, many, many little channel cats. Did some trolling up river and on Maiden Rock and did not catch a fish. Did here from the DNR survey person at the landing that someone came in at a Wisc. landing and had caught 10-15 walleyes in the 16-18″ range but not sure where they were at, I’m guessing up from Red Wing, maybe Dean can shed some light on the very upper pool activities.

Same here. Sunday 7 AM until 1:30. Finally!! First time on river since Port of Call. Plan was to stay in river all day, but we started at Maiden Rock and fished up river at many spots – up to the treatment plant in Redwing. Used 3-ways and leeches/crawlers the whole day. 3 Eyes, 2 S. Bass and 4 Sheepies. Eyes were all small. All came on green phelps and small leeches moving up – SLOW! Other fish types came on crawlers. Tried many colors and combos. We tried to stay in current most of the time and fished everywhere from 7-16 FOW. Real fish came in 9-10 FOW. Only lost a 1/2 pound of lead that day. Nice morning though. Not many others fishing or boating.

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Did here from the DNR survey person at the landing that someone came in at a Wisc. landing and had caught 10-15 walleyes in the 16-18″ range but not sure where they were at, I’m guessing up from Red Wing, maybe Dean can shed some light on the very upper pool activities.

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This end of pool has slowed down as well.I did get out some on Mon this week…..we had 4 legals in the first hour.Then, they shut off quicker than a power failure. Only a handfull of short fish dragging bait.JSR 5& Bomber 6a in any craw color worked best for us.I do have some customers here this week that have been having decent numbers on the lake….they are pulling cranks in the 3mph range.Good luck to all!