8-15-13 Thr.

8-15-2013 6 PM – 12:30 AM
Weather: (2053) calm, clear, 69˚, 30.17 steady
Water: 4.99 steady, 12.8 kcfs, 74 ˚, pretty clear
Location: Mississippi river pool 7
Caught: Bait: bluegills, perch and crappies, 18, 16 and 8 pound flat heads
Partners: Scott

Comments:

It had been awhile since Scott and I have fished together. During the past two weeks I or Scott had been away on vacation. I was a little worried about bait catching tonight. I had told Scott that I would supply the crawlers. I did supply the crawlers, but I only had three small ones in the container. We were soon out of them, and we did not have enough bait in the live well to make it a very serious night of flat head fishing. We called another friend of ours who was heading out cat fishing and we asked him if he would come past us and supply us with a few more crawlers. He graciously did!
We started out by Trempealeau and ended the night down towards Dakota. The bite was not fantastic, but we did manage to boat three, so we did do pretty well.

Observations:

Tonight there were lots of cat fishermen out and about. We saw three different boats set up for cats and we knew of at least three other groups that were also out cat fishing. It was a very nice evening, but after sunset it became quite cold. We both donned extra clothes to ward off the night chill and Scott even went so far as to dig out and wear his stocking hat. We did make a trip up to mud lake looking for gills, and I was amazed at how choked off the area is with wild rice, there is not a lot of area up there that is not covered with rice.