Well Mike’s back for the summer. With that said he has topped three of his personal records. He has caught his biggest Northern,Walleye and Flathead to date what a way to start the summer.
This report will tell about our week on the water. We started last Satuday 6-03-06 to 6-10-06.
River Flows 21,000 when we started and 17,000 to this Saturday. The flows slowed by 4,000 during the week with the water dropping about one foot.
This picture is of a 38 inch Flathead caught on a bucktail pitched to rock. It was about a nine minute fight on 6 pound test Stren gold. He is pretty proud of this brute.
A big Thank-you to John Stears for helping Mike to catch his largest Northern to date.
Read on for more of our week.
Early last week we were anchoring some wing dams in the Wabasha area. Simple presentation hook(#2 to 1/0) and sinker (barrel 3/8 to 1 1/2oz.) Baits that we used were crawlers, leeches, and willow cats. Also casting cranks.
While I was parked on a wing dam north of Wabasha along came a Beaver. Here is a picture of it she landed right down the main channel and motored right into the Harbor.
It was really quite the sight to watch and a first for me being so close.
This next photo is of Mike with his first set of keepers to eat. Some came on the dams and some pitching jigs. These are the only fish we kept all week long. Here is a tip for all you anglers bringing fish home for table fair. When you are finished fishing for the day. Take your walleyes and slit there throats turn your live well pump on and keep pumping water until your well is clean. When you get to the landing drain your well and place ice on your fish,until you can clean them. Two things here the fillets will all be blood free, but the best part is when you are cleaning them there is NO blood all over the place and your work table stays fairly clean.
This next photo is your’s truly with a nice 29 inch eye.
She came on a B Fish N tackle 3/32oz jig and a crawler dragged over rock. This fish came on Monday afternoon. We dragged jigs on sand, rock and pitched some current seams the fish early in the week were very aggressive. The vertical bucktail bite that Mike and I just live for is still kinda slow for my boat.
Hopefully that will pick up as the summer wears on.
Good luck to all and have a safe day on the water.
The fishing on Pool 4 is really popping this summer, so get out and enjoy.
If you are planning a trip to the lower end. I just want to let you know the US Corps Of Engineers is doing a huge dredging operation at Reads Landing.
They have all three rigs here and it is quite the site to see them working the whole channel has been slitted from the Chippewa. Here is a photo of the Thompson whom was pulled out of retirement for this task.
Here is a photo of the Goetz. The newest to the fleet.
I do not know the name of this smaller vessel however she is right up in the Chippewa working like crazy.
Last Sunday we were working some wing dams and here is a picture of Mikes friend Blake with a nice northern that he found with a night crawler.
Tuesday we went up to Redwing and knocked around on the North end. Here is an eye we caught dragging crawlers.
Nice Flattie! (and walleye too…I guess…
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Sounds like it was a fantistic week of fishing!
Thusday found us back on the north end and here is another photo of an eye Mike captured.
We went up and launched at Everts Resort. Got a report from Dean and bought some great bait.
Everts will fill all your needs in the bait & tackle department.
Dean Thanks for the cats.
Here is another fish we found on Thursday.
We had heard that BrianK was in the area after the fact.
But Mike put some hurt on the cats. Here is a photo of what he called a Dalmatian fish.
Great Report! Beautiful fish!!
Here is another Kitty he caught on a bucktail.
We have one more of his personal best slighty over 28 inches….
Nice fish Mike.
I would like to thank all the people at Everts.
A Big thank you to Dean. Mike likes the great fellowship up at the resort. And hearing all the fishing stories that get spun at the landing.
Thanks Dustin for all the on the water shows. Hope you are feeling better.
It was a great week Mike just wanted to keep going back.
Hope to see all you guys again soon.
Take care.
Greg…can you private message Luke with the gps numbers for the spot on the spot where that channel was caught…he’s learning how to
catfish….
Good report and awesome photos Greg!
Briank
What is GPS???
Say can you tell me a good way to get a 38 inch catfish on the Barbecue spit?
What kind of sauce works the best
And quit feeding those big Walleyes bullheads.
You know the catfish have just been on a tear up here on pool 4 we were getting them everywhere we went. We caught a couple 8 pound flatties in less than 6 feet of water.
Nitecrawlers and bucktails were are secret baits.
I don’t know if you would call what I am doing “learning”….
My uncle is the one who is teaching me the dark side- He and his son are fishing some catfishing tournaments this year. My “catfishing” set-up is a 7 foot heavy st.croix, with a chronarch and 20 lbs PINK fireline- think I need a new set-up Brian?
GPS coordinates are fine…
Yup, definatly learning…
Greg, I was encouraged by the 2 flattie I caught in the day light hours on P4 just out of Evert’s. I’ll be doing more fishing out of there as my free time permits.
I’m amazed at the bait fish on P4 at night compaired to P3.
I’m done fishing with bullheads for eye’s my only spot dried up as the flatheads moved in…
What a waste of a perfectly good bullhead. 
Seriously, I wonder how a bh would do on a jighead on the face of a wingdam???
Vandy,
What a week
I know reports like this get the blood pumping, I’ve gotta get caught up and back on the water
Thanks for sharing your super week.
dave
Awesome Week Vandy!
Talk about a mixed bag of fish.
Nice pics and report!
It was great talking to you and Mike last weekend. Hope see you both on the upper end of the pool again soon.
Yea Steve it was a fantastic week.
Thursday we just kept catching 20 inch plus fish it was a blast.
Mike boated some 10 pound plus Carp also that really get your wrists sore. One thing we didn’t catch alot of that we usually beat on was the smallies. We only had 4 of them and the biggest was 15 inches. We did find some monster White bass casting cranks they are like landing frieght trains.
Brian it was great to chat and that is a nice rig you have there.
Hope to see you guys at the Get-Together.
Greg,
Did you have to hold Mike’s belt while he landed that big cat?
Nice work Mike.
John
while he landed
Greg,
Did you have to hold Mike’s belt while he landed that big cat?
Nice work Mike.
John
while he landed
Greg,
Did you have to hold Mike’s belt while he landed that big cat?
Nice work Mike.
John
Hey John,
Mike did a great job of fighting the fish.
He kept complaining that his forearms were going to give out.
It was about a 9 minute fight, we just kept the boat right over top of him and steady pressure until he came up.
See you on the water.