8-22-13 Thr.

8-22-2013 Thr. 6:30 PM – 11:00 PM
Weather: (2153) calm, clear, 69˚. 30.10 rising
Water: 4.91 steady, 8.9 kcfs, 76 ˚, green
Location: Mississippi river pool 8
Caught: Bait (bluegills – rather large ones), flat head: 12 Lbs.
Partners: none

Comments:

I have been trying to figure the flat head bite out and I have not been having much luck in doing so. Tonight I was on pool seven just north of La Crosse. The first spot I tried was over in the West Channel near where the Bikini Yacht Club used to be. The area has nice depth and lots of wood, too bad the flat heads don’t seem to know about this spot. I never had a bite here.
I then went out to the main channel and fished behind a wing dam and caught one that I estimated to weigh about twelve pounds. I think I have caught this fish before because I recognized it by the exposed gills it had on its left side on account of a past injury to its gill flap.
The bluegill fishing down here is quite incredible. There seems to be bluegills all over the wing dams and they are of the magnum size.

Observations:

The wing dams north of the entrance to the West Channel area exposed.