Wisconsin River, Prairie du Sac Dam

Spent Friday afternoon and most of Saturday fishing for walleyes and saugers below the Prairie du Sac dam on the Wisconsin River. Typical for this time of year, unless your willing to fish at night, your looking at lots of fish between 14-17" long.

Thats pretty much what we caught to. One sauger on Friday stretched the tape to 19" and one walleye on Saturday reached 18" long. The rest ran between 13 and 16.5" long.

Walleyes must be 18" long, saugers 15" long and 3 in total makes a daily limit. No slot size exist below the dam.

We caught lots of smaller size fish on plain minnows and jigs tipped with minnows. Plastics probably caught 80 to 90% of the legal fish.

On Friday, I caught between 25-30 walleyes and saugers in total. Saturday was a bit slower. Especially in the afternoon hours. Between two of us, we caught 27 walleyes and saugers.

A total of 10 to 12 fish for both days were of legal size.

One of the fun things about fishing below the Prairie du Sac dam is all the other fish that can show up at the end or you line. My fishing partner Kevin caught three of these nice channel cats. They were all released as it is illegal to keep any catfish from the dam down to the RR Bridge until the regular Wisconsin fishing season opener.

Another words, although there fun to catch, they are not legal to keep this time of year.

This sturgeon also thought my minnow looked like a pretty good lunch. It took a good 20 minutes to land this brute. After a quick picture, back in the drink she went.

This fish did alot a thrashing around when we were trying to take this picture and in the process, water was splashed on the camera lens. Had to clean the lens off after I saw the blotch that was created.