The yupers made it down for their annual fall pool 4 trip,and are having some excellant results early in the trip.Tom Gursky and buddies shown here with a sample of their catch.Paying attention to the changing current seams and pitching ringworms and blades have put fish in their boat thus far.Good job guys,it is good to have ya back!
Mike Witham shown here with a paddletail piggie caught recently,depth approx 12 ft vertically jigged on b-fish orange-chartreuse paddletail.
This young man boated his biggest fish ever this weekend,vertical jigging a blade bait,and showed the veterans in his boat how to get the job done.A very nice saugeye indeed!
Another guest,Dennis Anderson shown here with a nice eating eye.Dennis really had the walleyes figured out on his trip,with limits coming to the boat quite easily.The bite in general? Very GOOD,for those who are willing to spend a little time figuring out how and what and where the fish want at the given time.B-fish ringworms and paddletails are really starting to put more fish in the boat this fall and without a doubt,the quality of fish is of noticeable difference.All I have for you now,hope to see you soon on the river!
Thanks, Dean!
Pics like that get the blood flowing, sounds like it’s starting to heat up nicely
What no trolls?
dave
No kidding…I have the boat put away…now just to find an open seat….
hi Dean,
Very nice fish. will definitey have to start heading down to Pool 4. Great to see you last Sat.
Jack..
Thanks for the report and pic’s Dean. Them saugers have some big bellies on them, must be feeding good. Do you know what was in those bellies?
LOTS of big smelly shad and layers of fat Jeff.It is amazing how many of those big shad those fish have in them.It was good to see you and others again Jack,tis the season for lots of folks here at the river.And Brian,there is always an open seat for you….Notsaying where,but an open seat none the less!
Generally it’s in the corner….
You betcha by golly! Spent 6 great years at K I Sawyer AFB the Upper Peninsula is the place to be.
Nice fish guys.
Looks like I better go down soon.
Jack you going down? Let me know.
Well Dean, sounds like it is time for the boy and I to put the shotguns away for awhile and come see you. We will be down bright and early Saturday to hopefully stick a walleye or maybe even two.
Had the pleasure of fishing Pool 4 sunday afternoon till Wednesday, and running into them yoopers….good to meet you guys (we were in the Yarcraft). Kind of a strange few days of fishing. started out Sunday afternoon in light rain hoping to find a pitching bite down-river, but not to be had for this boat. so we ended up going up to the dam with couple hours of light left, boated a few dinks, and had pork chops for dinner that nite. but the next two nite’s dinner consisted of nice, fresh eater-size sauger…Seemed like the fish were moving in and out of the sand on Monday and the action was excellent to good most of the day. Got a good number of eaters in the box within a few hours, and went playing down-river again pitching, but to no avail. Back to the dam in pm to finish out our limit, and go eat! Tuesday’s dam bite was very good in morning and fast and furious in last hour or so before dark. Again, we went down-river exploring and pitching and vertical jigging a few ares in between, but it was slow. When they were on at the dam, they were on….smacking ringies
and slow -take on live bait. Many were blading it, and seemed to have a lot of success too. Wednesday am, again, brought lots of action, which slowed as morning progressed….but it was time for this crew to go home bout noon with full bellies, and some nice eaters to take home. No piggies for these guys this trip, with biggest being 22 inch eye (still swimming) and some 19 to 20 inch sauger, mixed in with the 16 to 17 inch eaters. Our thanks to Dean for a good heads-up on where to catch the eaters (though we chose to chase piggies instead for part of our days) and for the hospitality and good accomodations. Next trip there will be March, unless I get lucky and get an invite to an open seat 
. Something to look forward to for the long winter months, although Dean teased us with the “December is a real hoot, guys, if you can make it” advice. Unlikely, but you never know, Dean…Thanks.
Nice observations Z-man.
I was one of the three (YOOPER) guys in the black Crestliner a couple boats above you most of the time. You are right on…we adjusted with the current changes from the vertical blade presentation to pitchin plastics. As simple as switching rods and moving the boat position slightly. There were a few other subtleties that I’ll post in my report tomorrow.
We were lucky enough to stick several 22-25″ Saugers and Eyes.
One of our friends (first time on the River) almost ran you over when his livewell nearly flooded his boat. I applaud your rapport as you handled that situation…He was mightily embarrassed…but he did stick this nice Mega male walleye this morning!
No problem on the near-collision…I thought that the boat was acting very squirrelly, with erratic motions and sudden directional changes, and didn’t quite understand why he couldnt control it better. He came back after discovering the problem, explained, and apologized again. Good thing he found out about the leak before it was too late….would have been terrible to sink that thing, and miss out on all the good fishing.
Were you guys able to find the fish after they shut down in the 15 fow on Wednesday?….we didnt, so played around down-river to finish out our trip at noon.
Yes…they moved deeper…both up and downstream of the sand flat…18-25′ of water. We ended up sticking over 100 fish on Wed. It was really something!
Sounds like I should have accidently collided and stuck to your boat.
We just picked up a couple dinks playing around elsewhere, for our last two hours….but it was one heckuva trip anyway. Maybe see you out there again sometimes.
Sounds Good! Every day spent oon the Pool is a learning experience…after several attempts the learning curve starts to reveal itself.
Then the fun really begins! 
Don’t ever be afraid to try things “out of the box”! 