A friend and I decided to brave the cold and wind and try to get in on the sauger action last Sunday 12/7/08. Well, we started out talking with Dean at Everts and bought a few packs of ringies and lizards and then we were on our way. (Thanks again Dean for all of your help, by the way did you end up shooting a deer that evening with the muzzleloader?) We headed up towards the damn and landed 1 small sauger in the first 20 minutes on a Blue Oyster Ringie, this is going to be a great day!! The next pass through this area, Steve sets the hook and it is huge, 5 minutes into the fight the other rod loads up and I am now fighting a nice fish, we still haven;t seen Steves?!?!? I get mine in and it is a real nice Channel cat. 10 minutes later and after being pulled around, we net Steve’s, it is a huge Flathead cat. We take some photos and release them before thay freeze. Both cats were caught on an Everts lizards on 6 lb test. The next hour we catch 4 more Saugers all real small, 10 -12 inches and one that was 19″ by this time we are too cold to even take photos. The last 2 hours were miserable, no fish and too damn cold to want to even tie on another color or style. All our saugers were caught on fairly slow drifts and all except one were caught while going with the current. Depths were from 17ft to 24 feet. Once the wind picked up we didn’t catch any more, it was hard to slow down enough. All in all a decent day on open water in December. And Agian, you won’t find a nicer guy than Dean!!!
December 12, 2008 at 4:22 pm
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