8-27-13 Tue

8-27-2013 Tue. 5:00 PM – 12:00 PM
Weather: (2253) calm, clear, 82˚. 29.86 rising
Water: 4.97 steady, 11.7 kcfs, 80 ˚, green
Location: Mississippi river pool 8
Caught: Bluegills (bait), 4 flat heads 18. 15, 13 & 8 lbs.
Partners: Marvin, KP

Comments:

It was a flat head trip with Marvin and KP. They made the trip up from the Milwaukee area on a quest to catch their first flat heads. They have both done quite a bit of fishing, but they have never tangled with a flat head.
We started the evening catching our bait (bluegills) and that task was accomplished with relative ease. We set up on a wing dam about an hour before dark in hopes of catching a few channel cats and possibly a flat head, but neither succumbed to our offerings. We moved to another main channel area just before dark and that is where KP caught his first flat head. It took another move to get Marvin his first flat head. At the end of the night KP and Marvin each landed two flat heads. We did try fishing for channel cats, but none could be coaxed into biting either stink bait or crawlers.

Observations:

The water and flow is definitely at their low summer time levels. The only time we experienced any current was when a barge moving upstream past us caused the resulting push of water to flow over the wing dam upstream of us. It was interesting because that was the only time we got a bite on the main channel.