3-20-2011

3-20-2011 Sun
7:00AM-12:00PM

Weather: Rainy, windy, nasty, 40 degrees

H2O: 6.95 rising, 61kcfs, clear

Location: Mississippi R. Pool 8 (favororite Dresbach Bay)

Caught: lots and lots of nice bluegills, and four small northerns

Partners: Adam K.

Comments

The weather was the worst weather I have ever ice fished in or for that matter fished in period. We had rain, wind and cold. It was a good thing I was completely protected by rain gear. It was miserable, but I did stay quite dry and the fishing was excellent for bluegills. Both Adam and I caught a ton of nice sized gills. He took home twenty-five and I took home fifteen, and two perch.
I was hoping to get into the northerns and take a couple sub thirty inch fish home, but it did not marerialize. We each managed two northerns, with the biggest being approximately twenty-two inches. Interestingly all flags came on the same tip-up!
Observations: The melt is on, the river is rising, and the main channel is open. The hillsides and shelterd areas still have snow on them.