OK… I can be happy to report the river is dropping… its ALMOST back in its banks… but they STILL have the Osceola landing closed… hopefully it will open this week….. we did get a LOT of snow… but it seems to have melted and sunk into the ground.. whereas before when all the snow melted and we had 2 days of rain the frost was not out of the ground and it all ran off…… so the river should continue to drop…
Hudson is still closed also… Funny thing though, when I drove by the launch downtown, a guy drove his truck and boat into the water so far that the waves looked like they where hitting his rocker-panels bumper to bumper! He still couldn’t get his rig deep enough to launch his pleasure boat!
ill probably go to the croix weather depending later this week and sat, does anyone have current water temps? or know where to get them?
The good news is that we crested 8 feet lower than last year!
Still lots of debris floating down.
Temp Sat 20th was 53 degrees by the Kinni.
Ferny.
Where abouts are you going to try for opener? in the osceola area..maybe i will run into you??
Im pretty sure I will be somewhere between Osceola and Taylors falls… Im not sure where yet……. kinds of depends on river conditons and angling pressure!
hey what are you thinking of using for bait? ?? crank baits? jig and minnow? what is usually the most productive?
the traditional bait that most of the locals seem to use is a #5 shad rap.. in what ever their favorite pattern is… the long line troll them slowly upstream along the edges of holes and on flats… BUT drifting jigs CAN be just as effective….. or more so since often the majority of people are not doing it….
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