Only been up there once in August. Had great luck fishing in 17-25 FOW trolling bottom bouncers with spin n’ glows,and smile blades.Try leeches, minnows, and worms to see what the fish want. It was fairly windy when we were there but we ended up having our best luck in the American Narrows. Best piece of advice, would be to get a lakemaster Rainy/LOTW chip, might save your prop or hull.
I purchased a 2013 FX4 with the Ecoboost back in December and and absolutely love it. Fuel mileage picked up after 6k miles, getting anywhere from 17-22 mpg on the highway, average of 18 mpg in town. The power/torq is very impressive, especially for being a 3.5 V6. I’m currently living out in Montana and have made a few trips with my boat (1700 Crestliner Super Hawk)and 7.5 x 16′ ice house across North Dakota and was very pleased when my truck had only down shifted twice going up and down the hills throughout the hole entire trip. I’ve made the same trip in my 07 Sierra and just got annoyed with all the down shifting just to maintain speed going up hills. So I think you will be pleased with you’re pickup.
Thanks you for the information, pretty excited to get back in the boat soon.
I slid it to unlock but still had the same message reading, maybe I’ll try to reboot the program and see if it does the same thing.
Thanks for the link! 
So last from 4 until 8:30 I tried a bunch of different spots, the slough up by the arsenal and down that straight away, credit island wing dams 2 through 4, the mouth of the rock river up to the bridge, sunset marina, and the slough by horseshoe island under that small bridge crossing. I trolled cranks, dragging plastics, pitching, and a little vertical jigging. I ended up getting one short while pitching the mouth of the marina. It was a rather disappointing outing but always nice to be out on the water.
I was afraid of that, well nothing better to do tomorrow evening so I may as well give it a shot. I will let you know how it goes.
33 pounds on the scale. We lost one other big one, and then lost another big one in town. The one in the picture was at the tube, it was a fun catch and a good release.
I think it just needed this 65 degree weather. I’m going to go ahead and replace the spark plugs, and disconnect the the wire and hopefully everything is a go. After talking with a friend last night and checking through the motor it doesn’t seem like there was any major problem…thank God.
I just hate seeing people keep 8 to 10 inch fish, and then turning around and saying that there aren’t many big ones out there. Most of the bigger fish I have caught this year have been in 6-12 FOW on the edge of current breaks. Personally I don’t keep many fish unless I plan on cooking them up that day or the next day.
Spitfire has some absolutely amazing food. My favorite is the beef brisket. Depending on how spendy of a meal you are looking for, The Hodo restaurant is fantastic. I had the cheapest thing on the menu which was some kind of honey mustard chicken and it was one of the best meals I’ve ever had ($26 but many course to sample from the chef). For lunch, I’d recommend the Paradisos, Spicy Pie, or even Granite City are really good choices. Used to live in Fargo for 6 years and absolutely loved all the choices it has to offer. If you get a chance for a snack, Tootie Fruity (frozen yogurt)is bomb.
Love it! 
Nice fish, I was hoping to get out tomorrow afternoon after work. Did you try fishing after dark at all?
That’s kind of what I was thinking, next time I will lock the pole in the rod holder…put them on there for a reason I guess.
Graduated from Concordia but, felt like extremely proud of NDSU today and the amazing job they did on D. They definitely earned that title today…GO BISON! (Also very glad they corrected the announcer on the pronunciation.)
Along the NW shore up by the arsenal (1st dam) probably 75 yards down stream of the discharge on left side.
Thanks a bunch for the information, I figured I better ask before dropping 5 – 600 dollars on batteries.
Something like this would have been amazing back in High School. The biggest problem would be space, up keep, and theft. To get the most out of a program like this you would have to make the kids go out and get sponsorship and work for the equipment. I don’t think it would be too big of a problem to get guys together to take the kids out and teach them a few techniques and breaking down a body of water to fish. As far as getting a rig all set up, sponsorship and help from locals should be very achievable by spring. Which school were of interest?
Can they be kept by commercial fisherman? Not trying to stirrup some [censored] but, it would be very easy to net fish that school up like white bass do. I’m new to the Mississippi River but, I’ve only noticed a significant size difference in the white bass I’ve caught from the nice slabs of pool 14 and the little guys of pool 16.
We’ve had similar problems fishing at night and getting thick readings of plankton in the water. To eliminate the interference, my buddy and I were able to turn our FL22 to low power and mark/fish out jigs in 28 FOW.
Thanks for all the awesome info guys. I’m going through withdrawals because my work schedule has kept me off the water for a week now. Once I get the chance to get on the water I will let you know how it goes.
I’ve only fished pool 14 and 16 since I’ve moved to the QC in August. I believe the water level for pool 16 is around 5.3 or 5.4 ft. Low/no flow below the 280 bridge.By the way, thanks for inputs everyone. I was also wondering if there was anywhere I could find some bigger minnows, shiners, red tails, etc…?
I haven’t tried the wing dams down by Credit Island since they had gill nets out (little over 2 weeks ago). I was kind of interested fishing up by the lock piers but, I’m not sure how shallow or if there are a lot of rocks up there. I’ve fished both dams up in the slough with similar results of small guys.
That puppy would probably eat half the sauger I’ve been catching… 
