Pool 2 Ice – Duh!

  • jon_jordan
    St. Paul, Mn
    Posts: 10908
    January 29, 2004 at 11:42 pm #1328763

    My drive home from work each night takes me past a view of the river I like to fish. This view has tormented me for the last few weeks. I thought I’d share that torment by putting up a pix of pool 2 as seen from Mounds Park in St. Paul, Mn. Looking downstream towards the end of the airport today. She is froze over from the airport all the way down to the RR bridge and I assume it keeps on going. There was a small section in the foreground that opened up due to the wind.

    I know, I know…. It’s still January.

    Jon J.

    TBOMN11
    Circle Pines, MN
    Posts: 608
    January 30, 2004 at 3:20 am #290790

    Gee thanks Jon…..actually that make me feel better. I haven’t got the new boat yet, so I wouldn’t have the rig to fish it anyway….

    jon_jordan
    St. Paul, Mn
    Posts: 10908
    January 30, 2004 at 3:59 am #290795

    Quote:

    Gee thanks Jon…..actually that make me feel better. I haven’t got the new boat yet, so I wouldn’t have the rig to fish it anyway….

    I can think of no better time to be boatless than the last few weeks. What are you getting for a new boat? I see you are selling the 1660.

    Jon J.

    Mike W
    MN/Anoka/Ham lake
    Posts: 13298
    January 30, 2004 at 5:39 pm #290861

    Stopped at hidden falls ramp to day. It is frozen as far as you can see up and down river.
    Looks like head for mille lacs again tonight.

    Big E
    Saint Paul, MN area
    Posts: 159
    January 30, 2004 at 5:55 pm #290871

    I flew into the Twin Cities last night…. and the only open water on Pool 2 was just below the downtown. A little bit around wingdams where the current concentrates, and thats it between Hastings and the Dam. As I look out at the river today I see a little bit of steam yet, but not much..

    boone
    Woodbury, MN
    Posts: 935
    January 31, 2004 at 4:28 am #290869

    Nice picture Jon. This is off the fishing subject a bit but think back to the time when the glaciers were melting and that whole big valley was full of water. The existing channel is just a trickle of what was once there. Hard to believe isn’t it. It must have been awesome. I wonder what the fishing would have been like as the last ice age receded? Maybe too cold? Think of how high the water was in the spring of 2001 when a heavy snow pack melted. I can’t imagine what the water flows would have been when glaciers that were a few thousand feet deep started to melt.

    Cabin fever… Oh well, need to work on the taxes and get a few projects done around the house.

    Boone

    jon_jordan
    St. Paul, Mn
    Posts: 10908
    January 31, 2004 at 2:27 pm #290957

    Quote:

    Think of how high the water was in the spring of 2001 when a heavy snow pack melted.

    Boone,

    Here is a shot of the river from the same vantage point. The shot was taken spring 2001 at the peak of the flood.

    jon_jordan
    St. Paul, Mn
    Posts: 10908
    January 31, 2004 at 2:33 pm #290958

    One more looking down river over the airport from downtown St Paul.

    DeeZee
    Champlin, Mn
    Posts: 2128
    February 2, 2004 at 2:28 pm #291136

    Unbelievable Jon!
    Thanks for the reminder. I know we do not need one of those again this year! I am all for higher water, but thats nuts!
    Thats the year I tagged a kicthen sink and just missed a pair of radial truck tires with my Warrior 2090!

    Mike W
    MN/Anoka/Ham lake
    Posts: 13298
    February 2, 2004 at 3:30 pm #291148

    How Was the fishing in that high water?

    DeeZee
    Champlin, Mn
    Posts: 2128
    February 2, 2004 at 3:37 pm #291150

    Mike,

    South of the Minnesota was a mud pie. Any consistency came from above the confluence. Got a couple nice fish south of 494, but there were from confidence spots that I anchored on for nearly an hour before I got my first bite! That was miserable!

    DaveB
    Inver Grove Heights MN
    Posts: 4473
    February 3, 2004 at 2:01 pm #291084

    I had great fishing in that high water. Not a lot of big fish once the water came up, but serious numbers in all if the slack water areas. I was weird to be in 4-6′ of water in the middle of trees!

    I would get 2 scoops of fatheads and go through them in 3-4 hours be myself.

    The river was closed until the water came down a little bit. When I was able to get out, Hidden Falls only had about 3-5′ of ramp that wasnt under water.

    kooty
    Keymaster
    1 hour 15 mins to the Pond
    Posts: 18101
    February 3, 2004 at 5:50 pm #290976

    It was rather erie fishing down there after the water levels went down, all the bags and junk stuck in the tree branches 10-15 above your head. Hard to imagine the volume of water that passed through that little cooridor at Hidden Falls.

    TBOMN11
    Circle Pines, MN
    Posts: 608
    February 3, 2004 at 6:30 pm #291320

    Putting a new 1800 Lund Explorer SS on the water, with an F150 Yamaha, T8, the whole nine yards. BUT……need to sell the Pro V before I can pick up the Explorer…..hope to have the new one for some early spring fishing on the river…

    steve-demars
    Stillwater, Minnesota
    Posts: 1906
    February 3, 2004 at 8:02 pm #291337

    I worked at the MN National Guard Flight Facility at Holman Field during the flood. We managed to keep our facility dry with the help of about 120,000 sandbags. It was an incredible experience. Here is a pic of our facility at high water:

    steve-demars
    Stillwater, Minnesota
    Posts: 1906
    February 3, 2004 at 8:04 pm #291339

    When we were doing the flood fight at Holman Field, I did manage to get in a little fishing. The carp were all over the place. Here is a pic:

    DeeZee
    Champlin, Mn
    Posts: 2128
    February 3, 2004 at 8:44 pm #291346

    Very cool pics!!!
    WOW! Somehow I quickly forget how high that was until you see pictures like these.
    Gives a new meaning to the phrase….”Working the flats!”

    lenny_jamison
    Bay City , WI
    Posts: 4001
    February 3, 2004 at 10:14 pm #291358

    Commanchero
    How high was that sandbag wall? That is very impressive. There has to be literally tons of pressure on that pieced-together wall. Wow.

    Gator Hunter

    rippinpigs
    Apple Valley, MN
    Posts: 399
    February 3, 2004 at 11:32 pm #291368

    Steve-
    How in the heck do you have a confidence spot with the water that high?!?!?!?!

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