7:00 PM – 1:00 AM
Weather: (2053) SE 8, clear, 75˚, 29.85 rising
Water: (Mississippi) 7.43’ falling, 66.2 kcfs, 66 ˚, fairly dirty
(Black) 3.72 falling, 1.41 kcfs, clear – too low for big boat!
Location: Mississippi River pool 7 and Black River
Caught: Channel Cats (3.5) 4 -12 lbs., 6lb sheep head
Partners: myself, Jason and Wade
Comments:
Last night was a flat head fishing trip with Jason and Wade. I decided to fish a tributary of the Mississippi before the water got to low and made the area inaccessible. Actually it was already too low, but we did manage to get to the spots I wanted to fish. Fishing the tributaries is a lot like trout fishing, fish the holes for a half hour to an hour and move on. The flat heads were not in a feeding mood tonight. We did have channel cat action with some nice cats coming boat side with the biggest being the twelve pounder that Wade caught. I said we had 3.5 because I failed to net a nice one that Jason had boat side and it got off.
We had quite a few bites, but the fish were pretty inactive and we had lots of dropped baits. I did have a report from a friend of mine who was out and he claimed Ryan caught a fifty pounder.
On the way back in we came across a raccoon swimming across the main channel. At first when I saw the reflections from it eyes in the spotlight I thought it was a boat anchored out in the channel, but upon closer inspection we found out it was a raccoon out for a mid-night swim!
Observations:
Once the Black River is less than four feet it is too low for the big boat.
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