3-17-2011

3-17-2011 Thr
7:15AM-6:00PM

Weather: calm, sunny, clear, ice of main channel and sloughs mostly gone

H2O: 5.85 steady, 41.9kcfs, clear

Location: Mississippi R. Pool 8 & 7 (favororite Dresbach Bay, Pigeon Island).

Caught: multiple bluegills at Dresbach, no northerns. Three northerns at Pigeon and one bass

partners: None

Comments

I had a day off in the middle of the week and I wanted to take advantage of it. My strategy was to target northern pike. The first four hours at Dresbach only produced one flag with a droppped bait. I did try here for bluegills just to see what was available, and I must say there was lots of gills being offered.
The afternoon spot was Pigeon Island. I had hit this once in February and did pretty good on northerns, and o'k with the gills. I ended up getting three small northerns here (approx 24-26 inches), along with one gigantic bass 4-5 pounds. There were two other fisherman that were doing ok on bluegills and the did catch some better northerns on the southern end towards the open water.