8-5-12 Sun

8-5-2012 Sun 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Weather:
(2053) W 5, clear, 68˚, 30.12 rising
Water:
5.03 falling, 15 kcfs, 78 ˚, clear
Location:
Mississippi river pool 7, Big Marsh
Caught:
Perch (approx. 10) 8 – 10”, bluegills (approx. 6) 6 – 8”, LMB (2) 15 & 16”
Partners:
None
Comments

The pan fish bite on this pool has me scratching my head, so tonight I headed north up to the Big Marsh area to see if they were hiding there. It did not take me too long to figure out this was not their hideout. I caught some smaller perch and a few bluegills, but it was pretty slow. I was definitely surprised with the lack of pan fish in this usually productive area.
After I had my fill of attempting to catch pan fish, I decided to go for bass in the slop. I did have some limited action and I did manage to boat two decent fish. I made my way almost up to Round Lake. There was a small path that had been carved through all the vegetation that was clear enough for me to run. I did have one boater that thoroughly pissed me off. I thought this jerk had some balls, but it was more than likely that he had no brains. The guy was a total jerk! I was fishing slop on the starboard side of my boat and to my port was the open channel, now any normal considerate person would have gone around me on the open channel side. But not this dumb ass, he had a surface drive motor and he deliberately wanted to piss me off and show that he could be an idiot and run through the slop that I was fishing.

Observations:

The Big Marsh area has an ample amount of vegetation, but no- where near what I have seen in some past years.