It took us a few hours to learn the area but we finally found some good structure and after that it was “lights out”. We fished (and bear with me because I don’t know the area) 2 spots primarily. Both were near where the St Croix meets the Miss. After you go under the bridge coming from the Miss and entering the St Croix, we took a left after passing the “no wake” buoy. Within 20 yards of taking that left, we found a break that went from 12-22 ft of water. Me being a structure fisherman, we decidided to troll the 15-17 ft range of the break. The area seemed to be prodominately sand and silt so there were no break-offs considering we were flatline trolling crankbaits that were constantly bumping the bottom at that depth. We had constant hits while tapping bottom on the drop off that went from 12-22 ft. The fish were sitting on the bottom of the ledge waiting for the bait to swim over their head (like most fish do). We also fished a secondary point off the shorline that held numerous small (13-17 in saugers). I’m not sure if these are small, average, or large saugers for this fishery but they were very apt to hit our baits. The big key was constant contact with the bottom. Color and type of crank was irrelevant.
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