5-15-11

5-15-2011 Sun
9:30 AM- 5:30 PM

Weather: N14 G25, clear, 61˚, 30.00 MB, steady

H2O: 656.5’, falling, 91.3 KCFS, clear, 56 ˚ - 60 ˚

Location: Mississippi R. Pool 5a (south of Alma, WI).

Caught: Approximately 15 pike and eight LMB

Partners: Terry C.

Comments
Today was an exploratory trip with a past co-worker. I had never fished this pool before, so it was a blind excursion. It did not take long to see that there was a pretty decent population of pike here, but the size was lacking. We caught pike everywhere, but the largemouths were tough to come by.
The conditions were comfortable, but the wind was very strong. In fact we could not fish the main body of water in the Weaver lake area, because of the wind. This lake is very shallow and the water was very dirty from all the wind.
We did not catch a ton of fish, and nothing of any great size, but I would have to say we did okay for never having fished here before. I do plan on coming back to this pool sometime in the future. A big plus for me was again the lack of fisherman in this area.

Observations

Trees are really starting to leaf out and things are definitely getting green. We did observe quite a bit of submergent aquatic green weeds starting to grow in the back of the warming bays