Well it has been a very LONG winter for myself and many others. This weekend brought the first “warm” spell to the river, and the fish did not disappoint. I spent Friday through Sunday on the river with a few good friends. As always its a pleasure fishing with you all and will do it again soon…
I spent the majority of my time looking for bigger fish that I knew had to be starting to show up soon. I spent my mornings and afternoons in search of the big fish and spent the late afternoon and evening getting a few fish for the box. My morning and mid-day presentations included mainly blades and pitching a few plastics to pick up a few more fish.
We spent the majority of our time focusing on depths in the 8 to 15 foot range. Our fish came off of both rocks and sand. Without much current yet I have yet to see any prefernce as to location and structure that they seem to be holding to. Our best colors for the weekend would have to be firetiger, black, or white.
The late afternoon dragging bite has been good, as many people have mentioned and experienced. With the many boats that were out there this weekend I elected to think outside of the box and try dragging some different locations rather than joining the crowd, and it paid off. Ringworm colors have been all over the board for me the last couple days. The most consistant colors have been firetiger, purple chart tail, and chart orange core. Firecracker, pro-blue, and catalpa also caught fish. My best advice there is to start with your most confindent color and keep switching until you find what the fish want.
The bite should only get better from here on out. I would be looking for things to change on a daily basis, so what works today may not be working tomorrow. With warm temps this week I would assume that we should get some more flow and a little color in the water, and that should only help the mid-day bite. I am looking forward to seeing many familiar faces and some new ones this weekend at the Freeze Your Butt tourny and through out the rest of the spring.
Until next time…………
Very nice Eric!!
Good to see some big gals showing up. Hope to get that way soooon!!
Nice fish guys. 8 work days and counting until Mad town invades pool 4.
Great report and great job on the big fish.
“ringworm colors being all over the board”
Good point Eric. Profile is key.
Good stuff Eric
Friday cant come fast enough
PIGS
Congrats on some beautiful fish
Quit showing me this stuff man,
it’s driving me to the brink of insanity…………..
Wow! 13.8 is an absolute toad!! 3 fish on one post over 10lbs is impressive guys. Nice work
WOW!!!!
Talk about hurting us guys with cabin fever!!!
March 21 can’t come fast enough!!!!!!
Great Report Eric.
Good to see you guys last weekend.
Jason Nice fish.
Hope to see you guys this weekend.
Nothing like catchin those double pound piggies!! VERY NICE!!!!
Congrats on some excellent looking walleyes
and good report too Eric! 
Great report Eric
Nice Fish
HairJig,
I think you may already be close, these reports are just pushing you closer to the edge!
JP
wondering what landings are open? looking to hit that area at the end of the month.
As of now just Everts and the back channel landing. Although the back channel can be a little risky. A lot can change by the end of the month though. Everts also has a bait shop right at the landing, and up to the minute fishing report!!
what is water temp on pool 4? has it broken 40 degree’s? last Tuesday was in upper 30’s. heading out there Monday to try our luck again…
My boat was reading 38 this last wednesday so I imagine it’s gotta be breaking 40 by now… I should be out wed and thurs if all goes right… will post temps after that…
Alex, is your dad Randy?
On Sunday depending on where you were I had readings between 38 and 42 degrees.
Great report and Great Fish Eric !!!
Last time I say you was when you and Lyons were up pitching blades..
Take care buddy !!
Hey Dave, You really need to look at the date of that report
Those are some mighty impressive walleyes Eric.
Well done!
Great report and fish. Even that they are a year old still very much worth a second look.
Nice fish.
Now I want my boat out of storage to do some river fishing.
it must be the medicine