Upper Mississippi River SMB report – 2/9/2013

  • kwp
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    Eden Prairie
    Posts: 857
    February 10, 2013 at 3:24 am #1217648

    Today we tried the upper Mississippi River as more of a scouting mission to see how it fishes in the middle of Winter. We have fished this same section in the Summer and were familiar with area.

    Since we haven’t fished the Miss. before in the dead of Winter we brought up both sucker minnows and a wide assortment of plastics (of course, in various styles, sizes, and colors).

    For a scouting mission, I would say the fishing far exceeded our expectations…We caught both quantity and quality of Smallmouth. Most we in the 14″ to 16″ range with still alot in 17″ to 18″ range; and 4 or 5 over 18″. Also, caught 3 nice Walleyes, a few largemouth, and a Northern. It has been a while since I felt the tap tap of a Walleye on plastics so it was nice to feel it again.

    As for bait selection, sucker minnows might have gotten top bait honors but slowly presented plastics were a very close second. Next time, I think we will scrap the live bait and just go with plastics. Caught an equal number of large fish on both plastics and sucker minnows.






    Steve Root
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    South St. Paul, MN
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    February 10, 2013 at 3:42 am #1139930

    Mike W
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    MN/Anoka/Ham lake
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    February 10, 2013 at 5:51 am #1139944

    Very nice.

    smackemup
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    North Metro
    Posts: 192
    February 10, 2013 at 7:40 am #1139946

    WELL DONE SIR!

    Joel Ballweg
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    Sauk City, Wisconsin
    Posts: 3295
    February 10, 2013 at 12:13 pm #1139958

    I’m impressed with the fish you caught.
    The walleyes don’t surprise me but we sure don’t see many smallmouth bass caught from open water in the dead of winter.
    Nice job!

    stuart
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    Mn.
    Posts: 3682
    February 10, 2013 at 1:13 pm #1139970

    We have been having a riot up in that area this winter.Large suckers have been the bait for us.Saw a pic yesterday of a 5lb 13 oz smallie caught on a green tube from that area Friday! :wayto

    Dave Ansell
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    Rushford, MN
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    February 10, 2013 at 1:18 pm #1139974

    Looks like an awesome trip

    nhamm
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    Robbinsdale
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    February 10, 2013 at 4:22 pm #1140042

    Looks heavenly.

    ms75449
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    Lake City, MN
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    February 10, 2013 at 5:19 pm #1140068

    Very cool. Thanks for sharing!

    dbright
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    Cambridge
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    February 11, 2013 at 1:24 pm #1140317

    Sounds like you guys did better then me. I think i will leave the boat at home if i head out on a weekend again. Tough finding a spot to fish with all the waders. I would have a tough time pulling in and fishing the same spots with them. If you went up river from the discharge or stayed out in the main current they was a constant flow of ice.

    fishingx90
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    Posts: 1
    February 15, 2013 at 1:04 am #1142009

    any whitebass showing?..gonna give it a try soon

    jeknight
    Participant
    Posts: 30
    February 26, 2013 at 1:03 pm #1145847

    People will disagree with me but the Mississippi River is still the most underfished in the whole USA. You will never know what you are going to catch and when. I have fished this river for 55 years.Some time it seams difficult to catch fish ,but for some reason fish always come back. Jerry

    nhamm
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    Robbinsdale
    Posts: 7348
    February 28, 2013 at 7:57 pm #1147068

    Shhhhhhh………

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