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couldn't agree with Mike more. Dean is very knowledgeable and most of the time has a good tip for a guy.

slooooww was the word for us from the past three days. We managed some nice eater sized fish and I caught a 21 inch sumo sauger and three carp those carp sure do put up a fight that was fun and made me remember why I fish at all. I did also catch a strurgeon a small one.

liphooked, send it to my email and i can post it. adrenilinseeker20@yahoo.com

Very slow today for us. Rivers got some good current though! Caught an ice chunk and a sunburn.

Sounds familiar, i'll try again friday.

Nice meeting you today JW.

You as well. You going to be over that way again soon?

Its very possible. Next Sunday or Monday perhaps?

Tough day here as well. Managed 4 nice walleyes 16-22 and a few small saugers.

I'll be in my friends boat friday. It that goes better than yesterday i might be down in my boat again monday.

Has anyone on here made it to the Alma dam or Basscamp at all?? Planning on getting out tomorrow or Friday and dont want to deal with the circus at red wing.. Any info appreciated.

fished P4 today and was really my first successful outing i've had out there. my friend and i picked up a few decent fish jigging in midmorning. then made a trip into Evert's for some much needed advice and a few of the hot producers. Hats off to Dean for having such a great place you can just pull into anytime. he visited with my friend and I for a good while and shared more than enough info about techniques and points to focus on. Lets just say it worked out pretty nice. The advice Dean shared with us payed off big time and is very much appreciated. I will definitely be in next time out to chat again and pick up a few new items! Thanks again

Nice Fish congrats. I believe i remember seeing you down there. For the most part it was a slow day for us....We even broke ice to get into goose lake.

Nice fish Nate. I had a friend that was over there and did pretty well today to. I wish i could get back over soon. But im heading over to the Fox River and Green Bay later this week! Guess i can't complain.

The bite on pool 4 should ramp up towards fantastic as the next 2 weeks roll along.

Well done Nate - what did you change up to get on those fish?

Fished all day sunday at the dam, mostly on the lock side. Fishing was pretty much NON existant. Not to many boats were catching anything. We saw one boat get 2 keepers and they were probably doing better then anyone else. We had one 15 inch sauger on the day and that was it. Tons of debris and ice coming down the river. We fished from 8 in the morning till three in the afternoon and it was BY FAR the worst day ive ever had at the dam. We were seeing schools of what were probably sauger come through pretty steady on the depth finder, but they sure werent biting. We got the lone keeper when one of these schools came through in the morning. The river didnt come up any that we could tell the whole day though... if she stays steady for a week, the fishing will get back to normal hopefully. But id be willing to bet it'll be awefully slow for a couple more days. good luck

Yiggins, what kinda boat were u in? Did you see a Blue fish hawk with 2 guys and one older fella in it? that was me, hammered saugers all day!

What are you guys using out there? Anybody care to share?

Also, where is Evert located at? I would like to stop by.

Thanks.

Not sure if i saw you guys or not... Saw a lot of people. We were in an older white alumacraft. Didnt see many people catching anything. They seemed to be having a little better luck on the other side of the lock but looked like mostly throw backs to me, and few and far between at that. You guyz must have been on em':')

Nice pics no-bait...gotta ask did you pull those first two out of the woods? Haha that would be great!

Not sure what they were using but Everts is on the east side of the river in between the puplic access and the dam,just past the split. its the only resort that way

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03-22-10 The Mississippi River is about to crest next Thursday and should rise another foot between here and now. The river is surprisingly clean and better clarity than you would imagine for being as high as it is. Getting you boat in the water, with flooded parking lots and high water can be a challenge. If you manage to make it on the water the fish are biting on plastics, minnows, and trolled stickbait crankbaits. Eaters are being taken in the vertical jig style in areas with less flow in 10 to 20 fow. Some larger fish are being caught in the flooded trees on plastics in 1 to 4 fow, this is a challenging effort, but can be rewarded with a fish of a lifetime. Best jig colors have had heads of orange or gold for minnow anglers. Plus orange core colored ringworms, gold paddle tails.
Water flow at Red Wing Dam 81,900 CFS Water temp 36.5 and Stage is 11.72 going to 13.4. Turk

we had most fish on green green jigs, and multicolored blades, go light

gotta luv the green green

ya, a buddy and I limited out in about an hour and a half on saugers saturday using green jig heads and minnows...I started using a white jig head with a bit of a chartrouse plastic cut off and stuck above the minnow, only caught two on it while my buddy using green caught about 6, I then switched to green and hammered em too.