a situation came up today that prevented me from getting out on the river early but I needed a fix so I went out on pool 2, being its less then 5 minutes from the house, pulled into the 494 launch and I was surprised to see the parking lot empty when I came up over the hill to put the boat in I realized why, the river was pretty rough but I came to fish, went up by the airport and tucked sort of out of the wind and pitched lumber, picked up 4 different species, I knew when I boated the first 14″ walleye and then another it was time to move, next area had some stripers and as I worked around broke off on something big retied and a couple cast later a fish smacked the 3/32 firecracker almost tore the rod out of my hand, turned out to be a nice snot rocket, as the daylight was fading moved down to another area and picked a sauger right away and just couldn’t seem to get a solid hook set on the thumps I was getting, the lighting was in the sky and I could hear the thunder so I reeled up and battled waves back to the landing, the wind really limited where I could fish and made it tough to pitch but all and all I’d do it again!
March 19, 2012 at 11:56 pm
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Fun stuff. 
