6-17-2015 Wed

6-17-15 530 PM - 9 PM
Mississippi R. Pool 7 (old river channel)
H2O: stained, 72*, 7.5'
Caught: 6 LMB, 2 Pike, two of the bass were good sized

It was a solo night for me. I was pretty much wanting to fish the area where Scott and myself had fished just a few nights earlier. The fish were still in the same general type of cover, but they had mostly moved upstream a hundred yards or so.
The action was not fantastic, but it was fast enough to keep me in the area.
Most of the fish, except for one came on a frog. I had three fish that were well over three pounds and could have even been four or better.

6-14-15 Sun

Scott and myself 2:30 pm - 9 pm
where: Mississippi R. pool 7 lower end
caught: Approx. 20 LMB, 2 pike, 1 walleye, 1 sauger, 1 sheep head.
Conditions: Mostly sunny, 80, calm, River: 8', stained

Today was predominately a day fishing for bass in the slop. The bait of choice was a plastic frog. When we found the fish they were pretty aggressive. It is always a very good time frogging or bass. If we didn't connect on a fish the first time, we would usually get a second chance at it.

6-13-15 Sat

Scott and myself flat head fishing fishing.
where: Mississippi R. pool 7, side channels on middle pool.
Caught: Bait, 1 - 8 lb flat head, 3 LMB's

Bait catching has been somewhat of a challenge this year and tonight was no exception. We did catch enough with about an hour left before dark. We took advantage of the extra daylight free time to do some bass fishing. I was able to catch three Large mouth bass on a plastic frog.
The flat head bite was very poor. We only had one substantial bite and I managed to catch that fish.

6-6-15 Saturday

Who: Myself, Scott and Brian DeWitt
Where: Mississippi R. Pool 7
Caught: Approx. 30 bluegills, kept 15.
Conditions: Sunny, 70, light winds, River: stained, 8.0'

The bluegill spawn has pretty much ended. we caught all our fish on the eastern end of the lake along the tracks. We are in the typical June pattern of plenty of rain and fairly high water. The milfoil has started to choke the lake.

6-3-15 Wed 5PM-845PM


Weather: light rain, overcast, S 10
H20: high, clear, 67 degrees
area fished: Black R. near Hammond Chute and L. Onalaska

The fishing was not too good tonight. I had plenty of opportunities while pitching a frog to duck weed and flooded grass, but I could not connect. I also missed a few fish on a buzz bait. All the action came up the Black R. near Hammond Chute. Most of the missed fish were pike.

Tuesday 6-2-14, 445PM - 845PM

Fishing pool 8 with co-worker Nate
river stage 8.7 and steady, dirty, 66 degrees
Caught: variety of smallish fish (gar, turtle, bluegills, walleye, white bass, perch, rock bass, sauger,small mouth bass).

It was an after work outing with a co worker that I have never fished with before. I could tell that Nate has done quite a lot of fishing and is quite good at it. Fishing was very slow and the size of the fish that were caught was small. We fished from right below the dam to approximately one half mile downstream.
The water is quite high and dirty. The majority of the fish came from the area right below the fishing float.

Sun 5-31-15 5:30PM - 11:15PM
Mississippi R. pool 7
Scott and myself flat head fishing
Caught bait (bluegills), 8 lb channel cat

It was my second flat head outing of the year and it was pretty much a dud. We caught the one channel in the Black R. and missed two other bites right at the end of the night just down from the Black.

The bluegills are finally starting to spawn on the lake, but you still have to do some searching to find them. The Iris plants are now blooming.