Exciting times!
Pool 9 is falling out of ‘action’ stage to normal summer levels now. The New Albin boat ramp should be open Thurs. or Fri. DNR crews put the courtesy docks back in yesterday. There was about 6 inches of water in the parking lot this morning.
Although access is still somewhat challenging these condtions are absoutely PERFECT for summer fishin’!
Pulling jointed cranks for walleye in 7-11 fow has been frustrating due to so much eel grass coming downstream. A half-crawler on a 1/4 oz jig vertical fished along these contours has been more effective.
Bass are chasing shad wherever they can find a sharp-breaking edge to pin them. Birds have been a big help locating pods of rambling fish. It isn’t uncommon to catch SMB, LMB and WB when you find a bunch of fish.
I actually got sick of catching bass this morning and fished for bluegills, boating a dozen fat ones in about 20 minutes in 11-12 fow. Bass were hitting Rat-L-Trap, Yamamoto senko, Ned and Z-Man chatterbaits. Effective tactic was locating bass either by seeing minnows dimpling the surface or throwing Trap/chatterbait, then switching to Ned/senko once aggressive fish had been stung.
Fishing success on the Miss is a pendulum. It has been really, really bad since early June. Now it’s really, really good and getting better every day.