P4 Advice

I’m taking the wife and son down to p4 this Saturday. I want them to catch some fish. They don’t have to be eyes but I wouldn’t complain if they were. Any suggestions from you guys who fish it quite a bit on what presentations I should use to keep her busy? Trolling, draggin, jiggin?

Thanks,

might want to go talk to Dean!

Im sure he will point you in the right direction! I know hes helped me out a time or 20!

good luck and good fishin!

trolling cranks head of the lake area/maiden rock area/lake city area/deer island area/ all them places should put some fish in the boat from sheeps too walleye or even crappies. but i do second (thegun) on advice too talk to dean at everts

The dragging bite has been pretty good for my boat lately and that is a pretty easy bite for the lady to master. You can never go wrong trolling cranks though. I would suggest that if you drag live bait to make sure you have some leeches in the boat—they have been pretty consistent producers lately.

I will talk to Dean or who ever else may be running the shop. I guess that is kind of a given. I have never been down there this time of year so I wanted to get some ideas on what seems to be working before I get there so I can read up on the presentations working.. Thanks for the advice guys.

When trolling the cranks do I need to use the 3 way set up and floating raps? I have the bible and a bunch of other cranks I just don’t use em much.

Long lining some flicker shads and or jsr5 jointed shad raps will put fish in the boat for ya. I also would have the dragging jigs at the ready to pinpoint more specific fish holding areas.

Dragging jigs tipped with crawlers or leeches will put good numbers of walleye in the boat right now. On yesterdays trip I fished with two other guys and had exactly 50 walleye in the 17″-25″ range. 22 of those walleyes were over 20 inches. 2′-6′ of water was best for us in the area I was targeting.

Make sure you guys take plenty of bait. The shephead will clean you out if the walleye bite is slow.

Cranks should produce also put i never had the chance to pull them yesterday.

Thanks for the help Dustin I’ll let ya know how it goes

Fished p-4 today 6 till about 2 pm 2 of us caught 63 walleye-saugers. We got 10 between 15″ and 19″ for the frypan for our families. We got 7 over 20″ the biggest going 24″ all swimming again. The rest were 14.5 and under. We pulled 3-way and live bait. Come about noon they somewhat shut-off. A great day to be on the water.

Jim, what part of the river were you fishing?

Did well today. Beautiful day on the water. Only one nice fish but a bunch of saugers up to 16″ Rigging live bait.

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Jim, what part of the river were you fishing?

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Right on the bottom

Thanks Randy !