4-8-2012 Sun

4-8-2012 Sun
5:15 PM – 7:40 PM
Weather: W 16, partly cloudy, 61 ˚, 30.07 falling
Water: 5.04’ steady, 55 ˚, 17.1 kcfs, turbid
Location: Mississippi River, pool 7
Caught: 4 LMB 10, 17, 13, & 14” / 4 Pike 29, 25, 19, & 31”
Partners: Myself

Comments

I had planned on getting out to some main channel areas and fish for large mouth but I never made it, the pike bite was too good! On the way out to the main channel I stopped and fished an early spring spot that can be very good for pike, and it was. The pike bite got me side tracked from my original small mouth mission.
It was a very windy night, so again it was not a finesse bite. I did try a swim bait with no success, so I had to revert to my old tried and true Terminator spinner bait.

Observations:

I am starting to notice some emergent vegetation in the back waters. Apple trees and lilacs are still in bloom, with the flowering crabs at peak.