Weather: calm, clear, 65˚
Water: Quite low, clear, 66 ˚
Location: Mississippi river pool 7
Caught: Bait: bluegills and a few perch, me: 5lb. flat head, Scott: 38lb flat head
Partners: Scott
Comments:
Tonight was probably my last night of flat head fishing for the season. The water is getting colder and I am also losing my interest in pursuing the bottom dwelling predators. We started out catching bait along the dredge holes out in front of Schaffer’s bait shop. We were accompanied by no less than thirty other boats. The slaughter of the staging bluegills is at its peak. I am fine with someone going out and catching some bluegills, but the limit is too liberal in my opinion and there are some that are going out every day and catching their limits each time out. The bait gathering was quite easy; the bluegills are very abundant right along the weed edges.
Flat head fishing was pretty slow tonight. We had a total of three bites and caught two. The size of Scott’s fish more than made up for the slowness. It was the biggest fish of the season for him.
Observations:
The main channel is very clear and low and the flow is practically non-existent. We had several instances where we could not anchor properly on account of the low flow. The water temperature has stayed around the mid-sixties range, but I expect that to change soon.
