pool3 sun 9/14

started out on the croix,just sm.bass.made a change and some lookin around ended up withsome sauger 1 short eye and these two .26 1/4″, and 27 3/4″

heres the biggin

Nice Fish

Thanks for sharing the pics. Great looking fish. Thats what alot of us were looking for on pool 3 Saturday. Thanks, Bill

Awesome fish & pics Dave

Bill you were on pool 3 on Saturday
I could have swore our tournament was on pool 4

Nice fish there!

Care to shre what kind of bait/presentation was working for you to haul in those big uns?

It is so nice to see fish pics with the winter clothes on already, gets my heart going just thinking about the fall time

YEPER ,WE DID NOT GET AN EYE ON THE CROIX ,PITCHED PLASTIS,LIVE BAIT ,AND CRANKED A BIG 0! SO WE HIT THE MISS.DID A LOT OF LOOKIN WITH THE GRAPH UNTILL WE SAW A LOT OF LIFE.ONLY THING THAT LOOKED GOOD WAS WHAT I HAVE BEEN DOIN MOST OF THE SUMMER, PULLIN #5 JOINTED SHAD RAPS ON RIPRAP.3.8 MIL.HR. THE BEST R&RHAS DEEP WATER IN FRONT.ITS HARD TO TROLL WITH BIG BOATS GOIN BY ,NO ITS SCARY TO SAY THE LEAST.WAS OUT FRI NITE ALSO ONLY GOT 1 16″EYE BUT THE BARG BEAT ME DN. RIV.IALSO WAS ON POOL 2 ON SAT MOR.WAS S. OF 494 , NOT ONE EYE BUT SAT ON A WING DAM FOR A HR. GETTIN W.BASS THAT WAS FUN!ONE L.M AND A FEW SM.BASS ALSO.THAT IS THE SECOND TIME THAT #2 BEAT ME .I’LL GET IT SOME DAY

You are right Steve. I mean’t pool 4. I’ve been lucky enough to be able to spend alot of time on the water the last couple weeks and all that sun must be cookin my brain. [no In-depthangling hats yet you know]. Next week I will get to spend 4 more days on the water too [not counting this coming weekend too] so you better keep an eye on me to make sure I keep things straight. lol. Got myself one of those fancy hats [that Nate doesn’t want to be seen with me wearing] and might have to wear it on the water to keep the head/face from cookin. Its a Ecnook wanna-be hat for sun protection. See what happens when Ecnook starts a new ”fad” going on the river! At least it will help from from continueing to fry the sides of my face. Lost a layer of skin there a month or so ago so now maybe I had better hide under my new hat hey. Thanks, Bill

Plfuggy. Are you finding the sheepies on the riprap also? The speed you are fishing is interisting. We ran the riprap on 2 at about 2.5. Found no big fish at this speed. They where there a month ago. We did manage to pick up one eye off of the sand flat. Not sure if there where more there or not.

GOT 1 ON THE LAST RUN ON THE SMALL SIDE TOO, NO SM.BASS AND NO WH.BASS,ALL HAVE BEEN ON THE ROCKS ALSO UNTIL SUN.?

Thanks for the report. On Sunday morning I was also out on Pool 3. I mainly concentrated on the wingdams but only caught one small walleye on medium sized dace minnow and a sheepie on a jig. I trolled some rip rap downstream and caught a 6-7 lb. sheepie that inhaled a Wally Diver. I’ve struggled the past couple of weeks on Pool 3. I was hoping the increased current and cooler water would make for some active fish on the wingdams. I marked some suspended fish off the tips of some wingdams but couldn’t manage to catch them… whatever they were. I talked to a couple of boats at the ramp that had fished the Croix and they didn’t do very well.

Boone