SB I must be missing you on the water and the landing. I have so much going on this time of year that I never know when I will get on the water each day. Yesterdy it ws 11:30-
3:30… Lot’s of dinks being caught. Larger females moved yesterday just out of the current, but they sure weren’t biting very aggressively,(actually not at all), later yesterday when the wind got strong out of the north my bite slowed to a fish every 20 minutes or so. Caught some nice size sauger yesterday, but as usual I was spending most of my time running around with electronics looking for pods of bigger fish abd trying to get them to bite. I think I’ll take some minnows with next time and see if it helps bring the bigger ones off. I don’t spend much time even looking at deeper water but even when I did float over the 30s and deeper the bigger marks weren’t there. The depths of 17 – 25 again yesterday,(pretty safe bet any early spring), held the bigger marks with an occasional group of larger marks in 10- 12 feet. In the 24ish depths you can go over the fish numerous times and mark them, but shallower as in 10-15 they scattered pretty quickly. With all of the tributaries over there banks for the last 30 + hours I expect the water to be milk chocolate pretty quickly. Water clarity changed considerably throughout the afternoon yesterday. About 3:00PM the debri started getting more noticeble , too. I don’t often see a full sheet of ice above the dam so I don’t know how freely the debri will keep coming but whoever is out today might update us.