Today’s guests we Mark and Leslie Collins of Rochester. Mark and daughter, Leslie have been regular guests and if you remember from last years report, Leslie opened a can of whoop a– on Dad. Well today, Dad may have caught-up. We started at day-break with a flurry of mixed LM and SM on Mimic Minnows, swim jigs and Berkley Frenzy poppers. The picture is of Leslie with her second fish of the morning. It was a nice fish but Dad came away from the first round the winner. The Picture from the 2nd paragraph is Dad’s best fish from the 1st spot.
When I launched the boat I forgot to check the drain plug and the automatic bilge pump kept us from filling up. So after beating-up everything on the 1st spot we went back to the launch, put the boat on the trailer and installed the plug. Most good guides do that 1st.!
From there we hopped from spot-to-spot picking up anywhere from 1 to 10 fish. The key seamed to be shallow flats with deep water near by. The picture is Leslie’s with her 2nd ever top-water bass.
We ended the day at 11:00 just as the sun got hot. We were able to catch about 35 bass by changing the presentation as the fish got wise to our lures. The first pass was with active presentations. When things slowed we’d start fishing the bottom with tubes. Dad was the king of the top-water but Leslie had the bottom bouncing technique down. We didn’t keep count but if the bottom bite had keep going, Leslie probably would have caught-up. I was a good morning with lot of fish. Lake Pepin and pool 4 is not the home of the monsters but if action is what you want, give it a try.
John
John,
Very nice 1/2 day on the water.
Congrats..
keep up the good work.
Is that your first drain plug happening????
Jack..
John,
Sounds like fun to me. What kind of structure were you fishing with the tubes? What color of tubes were you using? Or did it matter?
Some good looking fish!
Thanks for the report and pics John. Smallies are a blast and you always seem to know where they are.
Briank, next time you go fishing take the drain plug out of your tackle box and put it in that little hole at the back end of your boat.
Thanks, Bill
Fridays update; another overcast day and outstanding top-water bite. Today’s guest was Steve Riederer of Rochester. All I can say is when the conditions are right the bite is awesome.
Johnny B, we are using Yum tubes in watermelon/blue flake, pumpkin/copper flake and smoke with blue flake. The structure is rock flats next to deeper water. Unfortunatly the maps don’t show the small structure. You just have to get out there and work the shoreline to find em.
John
Ditto for Sunday. Today’s guests were Bill and Brian Maxwell of the Twin cities. The picture is Brian with a dandy smallie that hit a Pop-R. It was a challenge to navigate in the fog but the bite was hot.
John
John,
Thanks for the info. I am scheduled to come up to the Alma pool in mid September, I will have to make sure I have those colors as part of my arsenal of tubes…..
JohnnyB,
The tube are great but don’t forget your top-water baits. The bite is still hot.
John
John,
Nice topwater fish. Congrats…
Thanks
Jack..