6-18-13 Tue

6-18-2013 Tue. 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Weather:
(1453) SE9, clear, 76 ˚, 30.06 falling
H2O:
8.2 falling, 74 kcfs, dingy (except Black R. is clear), 76 ˚
Location:
Mississippi R. Upper pool 7
Caught:
approx. 8 LMB 13 – 17”, SMB 17”, 1 pike 22”
Partners:
none

Comments:

What a beautiful day: sunny, calm and mid- seventies. I had a very hard time deciding where to fish today, my heart was telling me to go north up towards Fountain City or Alma, but I decided I would stay on the home waters and fish some new water on the upper end of the pool. I trailered the boat and started out fishing Round Lake. I was very surprised that the water was quite dingy in there. In fact it was dirty everywhere except where the Black River was dumping in. Besides Round Lake I also fished up at the dam, the spillway and main channel areas, I never had a bite nor saw any fish activity in areas with dingy water. I ended up going back to the vicinity of the areas where I have been catching bass the previous couple of days and I did okay. I did not see much chasing going on, but it was mid-day and sunny. Most of the fish I caught came off a frog in some pretty heavy cover. I also caught fish on a Pop-R, buzz bait and Senko.

Observations:

The Bassmaster Elite Pros are all over the area up by Big Marsh. I had to have seen at least ten different ones up in this area. It is quite strange seeing these guys everywhere; they are fishing some areas that very rarely if ever get fished.