good to see a report from the QC area.wished i’d gotten my motor back sooner from the fix-it guy.will be out next weekend hope to have the sane luck.will be in a 14’alumacraft flat boat with an old 71 evenrude 25hp.thanks for the info

yeahhhhhhh babyyyyyyyyyyy……………count me in

put me down for a copy……..eyesrit

hey guys,went to the efn store and could not find this scent,any help is much apprediated.thanks…………………eyesrit

it’s about time,tired of watching people filling their minnow buckets with limits of sauger.this is long overdue…..

maybe this would be a good time to put a length limit on saugers,in the southern pools.then maybe in a few years we can post some pictures of nice saugers.like the ones from pool4(one of these days my fishing buddy and i are going to get up there.) i’ve thought for a few years that they should have length limit on saugers.we try to stick to 13in.for the saugers we get from l&d 14 and l&d15 but it is getting harder and harder.especially when you see 9-11inchers being tossed in the live wells………this is just our observation,we don’t get to fish nearly as much or as much area that we would like to………..beware pool4,we are planning a trip in spring and fall in 2003,

everyone from bellvue south must be hunting deer,sure not getting any fishing reports,we been to clinton and the sylvan slough,and only getting dinks……….good luck on the hunting,,,,eyesrit

thanks rooster,sent you an e-mail…….eyesrit

hey rooster,my fishing buddy said a guy he works with was up to bellvue on sunday.brought home 11 saugers,and they tossed back a few short ones.thats second hand info,like from a freind of a freind of afreind deal.don;t know what they used or what the water was like.we fished sylvan slough sunday morning only caught short ones,went home with empty livewell. …eyesrit

i have used fireline for several years and like it alot.one thing i found out is you want to keep the drag on your reel loose.the line is very sensitive but has no stretch.if you fish the river a lot and set the hook on a snag,you put a lot of pressure on the bail and internal gears,believe me i know.had a quantumm energy reel that i used,and it started slipping,took it to the repair man andhe pointed out the bail,and when he took it apart,the gears were really stripped bad.had to trash that reel,only good thing is i get to buy a new reel.but i will keep the drag loose on this one.if you keep the drag a little lite,it might keep the rod from grooving,you can always tighten it when fighting a good fish.this is what i know about fireline,but i will still use it…..eyesrit

hey there evrybody,havn’t checked in for awhile so i am a little behind.but 3 or 4 years ago we were fishing the pleasure lock at 14,this was in late winter early spring.there was a bunch of fish working the top,so one of the guys fishing there put on a treble hook,and snagged one,basically to see what they were.had a heck of fight for about 15-20 minutes.he went across the lock gate and down to the rocks across from the walkway,i went with him and netted a 12+lb,ugly fish.the guy took it to the fairport hatchery,and they couldn’t tell him what it was.iread later in the year in walleye-insider where a hatchery on the ohio river got flooded and these exotic big headed carp got loose in the river and worked there way down to the miss.they described this fish,and i am certain that is what that guy snagged that morning.so i know that they are as far north as l&d14.sorry about the rambling,but that is what i know about big headed carp……eyesrit

i have always thought that that if they would take out the causeway going onto credit island,and put in a section of bridge,with water flowing underneath it,that would take care of the silting in.and as much as they got to use it after the last flood,they should take out the causeway altogether.just my thoughts on that area………….

well the weather won on monday,going to try thur. or fri…..

thanks rooster,hopefully i will have something good to report

hey there current break,thanks for the info,figured that was the way to go.hopefully me and the boy get there this year.thanks,eyesrit

hey there,if you was to head up to red wing from davenport,iowa,what would be the best route?thinking of going in the spring.thanks,,eyesrit

hey there fishunt58,if i remember right,table rock has an eye or two in the top 20 big eye’s,seems to me i read that somewhere,would’nt mind going there sometime myself,eyesrit

welcome red rock eyes,i too think this is an awesome site,you can learn more from this site,than reading the fishing mags.sounds like broken knuckles has more than broken knuckles,,,welcome again,and enjoy this site,eyesrit

hey there gofish,last year i e=mailed the dnr about a length limit on saugers.they said that there are enough sauger in the river not to put a length on sauger.and that the ones that DO get released have a high survival rate.they should have one just to keep evryone honest.have seen a few short (green )saugers go into some livewells at d-port.maybe they should try length limits on certain pools.sure would help in some pools.this is just my opinion,and evreyone has one of those,thanks…………. eyesrit

hey gofish,are they doing anything in belvue,thanks,eyesrit

cool card..ya’ll have a merry x-mas and happy new year,and may ’02’ bring many tight lines….eyesrit

if they are setting the rollers at clinton for the winter,does that mean they will be setting the rest of the dam rollers down stream for winter also??????

finally someone explains it….

thanks herb for the sticker info….you to rooster,got some good info on fishing up in clinton.

WOW!!!glad i missed that in my little 14′ alumacraft flatbottom.i have this e-mail address from the corps rock island division,but it keeps comming back as undelverable.don’t know if it is because i am not on outlook express or what.here it is,maybe someone else can get thru…[email protected] might be 02 instead of o2….if you try,good luck,found it when i typed in mississippi river corp of engineers in my search engine..be carefull out there………

rooster,i still say it is a conspiracy.we fished 15 tue.up the slough,caught a couple of sauger,then went below the the rollers.they had 3 rollers shut down,marked alot of fish but caught nothing.went by there this morning after taking wife to work,and they had the water rolling again.did ok there last year,but they had half the rollers shut and you could fish it.when i talked about fishing the dam at 14 before,i meant the dam in leclaire.ever do any good there….where do you get those ftr stickers…..thanks eyesrit……

hey there gofish,i check this board just about every day,and it seems to me that all the northern pools talk about is how good the fishing is,we too have had some good fishing,but i never notice the upper pools have the problem of up and down water,seems like every day it changes around here.is it me or is there a conspiracy from the corp of engineers,to make it really interesting fishing,thanks eyesrit didn’t get out today,but we are going somewhere tues.

is the fishing any good at dam14?would you fish the ia. or ill. side.have fished in the pleasure lock area from the board walk,but never in a boat…..thanks mike

hey there huntfish,i too have been fishing arsenal dam.it was pretty good fishing but has slowed down quite a bit,maybe they will keep the rollers closed now,they could close a couple more too.good to see some local post on this site.good fishing…

thanks randy,sounds like the water is up and down all over.can’t figure out where all the water is coming from