6-27-11

6-27-2011 Mon
6:00 PM- 10:15 PM

Weather: W 12, clear, 74 ˚, 29.84 MB, rising
H2O: dirty, 68 ˚, 9.6’ rising, 87.2 kcfs

Location: Mississippi R. Pool 7 – Lake Onalaska (upper end)

Caught: Plenty of bluegills and perch for bait and two fifteen inch largemouth bass

Partners: none

Comments

Tonight I was off flathead fishing by myself. I was quite nervous about being able to catch a sufficient amount of pan fish for bait. The first hour I was quite stressed. I caught about two small bluegills and two perch, but they came with great difficulty. I have not been pan fishing for a while so I was pretty clueless as to where to find them, and the wind and the muddy water was another contributing factor adding to the difficulty. The last half hour of bait catching I stumbled on them. I was fishing just out from the landing cut in the pads.
With the high water and associated current my options for spots was very limited. I picked a small slough off of a main slough that had a somewhat reduced flow of water. After forty-five minutes and no bites I pulled the plug on this spot and the night of fishing.

Observations

The high water is making fishing rather difficult. The night sky on the ride in from fishing is filled with millions of winged insects, I expect a rather large may fly hatch within the next week.