10-21-12 Sun

10-21-2012 Sun 3:00PM – 7:00 PM
Weather:
(1553) S9 with strong gusts, clear, 66˚, 29.84 rising
Water:
5 rising, 18.7 kcfs, 51 ˚, clear and weed free
Location:
Mississippi river pool 7
Caught:
Scott: Drum (1), walleye 12”, SMB (3) 12 – 17.75”
Myself: SMB (4) 12 – 18”, LMB 12”
Partners:
Scott

Comments

Today may have been my last day of casting with crank baits. It seems as if the bite has really slowed down, and I for see it getting slower with the cooling of the water.
Today we exclusively targeted wing dams, and our production on them was very poor. We were fishing for whatever would bite, but the main quarry was walleyes and small mouth bass. Once again we had some pretty serious competition going and I thought Scott was going to have the most fish at the end of the night. But I pulled a nice 18” small mouth out of an area that we had already thoroughly combed with crank baits to give me the tie.
All the fish except the nice small mouth I caught were fooled with crank baits. This fish came off of a firecracker ring worm.
I had a little interesting encounter at the landing when we got back after dark. All the duck hunters except one had already loaded their rigs and were gone. But this one moron was pulling the idiotic take the whole landing up and unload your gear and stow it in the truck then strap down your boat, and do more pissing around, oblivious to me waiting for them to get out of the way so I can trailer my boat. Well, it just so happened the moron was either a federal or a state warden, but whichever they were they had no courtesy. I thought for sure I would get checked, but that did not even happen.

Observations:

The water is in great shape with it being fairly clear with low flows and not many pesky lure fouling weeds floating downstream.