Mississippi River Pool 9 Report 4/14/05

By Dave Koonce 0

Now this is Fun !!!

Even more fun than a sharp stick in the eye

Today was planned a couple weeks ago and It couldn’t have turned out better Gary Behring and his son Jeff joined me in a trip to pool 9 handlining.I haven’t been out on the water "fishing" in quite some time so I wasn’t sure how things were going to turn out. Well it was like ridding a bike…I got on,started pedaling and it just came natural.

It wasn’t long after the short intro on the tools and we were on fish If i remember correctly Jeff took off to a big lead and then Gary came on strong in the end.

Pictured here is one of the best fish caught today and Jeff did a fantastic job bringing it to the boat. After a couple of quick pix, this fish was turned loose of coarse.

We were using 2-3 pound weights with 5′ and 15′ leads back to a number of different types of stick baits.

If i could think of more to add i would but it’s been so long since i posted a report i’m drawing a blank..

Well it’s back to packing out your BFT orders. And if you didn’t get your order quite as fast as usual,please forgive me I’ll be on them tonight and ship them out tomorrow.

Thanks for sharing my boat today guys I had a FANTASTIC Time

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Koonce’s home waters are Pools 9 and 10 of the Mississippi River, neither of which is too far from where he lives in Prairie du Chien, Wisc. “It only takes about 15 minutes to have my boat at the landing,” Full Bio ›

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  3. Looks like the post-spawn feed-bag time is getting underway on pool 9.

    I know where I’m gonna try to go sometime next week…

    Great report. You just can’t have too much fun with ‘nook.

  4. I just want to thank dave for a great day on the river. Dad and I had an awesome time. I was a blast watching him catching fish, and I was also glad to see you put a couple in the boat. Thanks again for a very memorable outing.

  5. Dave dude you have been absent way to long the high water musta washed you out of the bfishn office! You still gotter though!!!! Keep me in the loop We will gitter done soon Ron

  6. Dave
    NICE FISH
    I thought that was you that went by us on the river. By the time I realized that it was you, you were to far away to say Hi. We were in a green and white Crestliner. It was our first time out and it sure was a beautiful day. Ended up with some nice eater size males. Next time I,ll reconize your boat. Hope to see you out there more often.

  7. Great report and pic’s Dave. I hope my buddy Dale will catch some like that this weekend then he might have a chance to place in the money.

    Thank You for the Cards and Ringies


  9. Quote:

    and I was also glad to see you put a couple in the boat

    Jeff,

    Thanks for taking over the helm so i could brush some rust off I was pretty happy when i caught my first fish

  10. Sal, How did I miss ya ? Man I wish I would have seen ya out there Sometimes I may just need an anchor tossed in my boat to get my attention Who were you fishing with ?

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