As of yesterday no safe ice at Stoddard or Blackhawk and they have the gate closed at Goose Island so U can’t even get back to the back. Just an important side note. The pool 8 water has been dropped and in some places when I spud from shore there is 6-12 inches of air below the ice before U get to water. So that will never form right !!!!
Thanks Got some at Cabelas in Prairie Du Chien… last one.. couldn’t do it online so I drove the 70 miles down and got a set Yesterday
FEELS GREAT TO GET BACK TO THE Mississippi. BASS DERBYS All over the country for last 15 or so years has been a hoot. But I started fishing on Pool 8 and 9 64 years ago and missing ice fishing so many of those 15 years was tough. Fortunately I have been up here for open water a good part of the summers.
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THE FOAM covers are made in such a way that they don’t absorb water
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Best solution is to Google for pic.. if you fish slop much down this way(pool 8 and 9) you will see a darker about 2-4 inch semi-blunt nose fish jump out of the water frightened either by the frog or my whats tracking your frog and twice that I can remember, I have actually snagged one running swim-jig. They have a sort of pug nose and on 8 and 9 they really are more solid colored than perch markings. Until I explained them in detail to fisheries biologist I had always assumed they were baby dogfish. They look somewhat similar to a gobbie.. Lots of other creatures swimming around out there that you see fishing 200 + days a year. Last year during the Spring bass pre-spawn run we snagged blue back herring… I see them fishing down south every year and recognized them right away.. as a matter of fact I had a blue back herring pattern stickbait lure and the colorization was almost identical..
Pretty much a repeat of yesterday but more 8 inch plus Gills ,and more 13 inch plus perch (first 2 females today)… Water appeared to drop about 15 inches between sundown last night and 5 PM today.. so this bite in this area is probably about over. There were times today when we couldn’t keep 2 lines in the water
LARGE SCHOOLS.. But no above surface thrashing.. and none of them spit anything up although I know there are a ton of logperch in both areas we caught them in.. on the Mississippi if you find an area with lot’s of bass that seem to stay there all year round.. you often see the logperch jumping out of the water ahead of them to try and get away..
