Anyone been down there in the past couple weeks? Looking forward to getting in a lot of fishing down at Pike Island this year. Ashamed to say, but I didn't even buy a license last year and didn't fish a single day all last year. Just waiting for March 1st to get my license and get back at it. Would be nice if we actually got a Spring this year, unlike the past few years.
I was there Saturday, started fishing around 9am. I was using minnows and twister tails but the bite was really slow, no one on the pier or the rocks was really catching any. Everyone left around noon so I had the pier to myself and decided to throw a 3/8oz 4" swimbait out before I leave. First couple cast with slow retrieve nothing. Then I switch to a fast paste, fast twitching action and it was game on ever since 12.30pm thru out the day. If I slow down I notice they wouldn't bite it, seems like there hitting on a reaction strike. Water level seems to be around 15.5'. Water clarity was about 1' clarity. I don't know the water temp, I'm guessing somewhere in the 40's. It was cold snowing mixed with rain. Good luck.
Thanks flatty, yup seems like the perch been taking over the dam for a year or so now. I think I caught more perch than saugers my last 5 outing on the river.
Thats crazy about those perch. Been fishing Pike Island for a long time and have maybe caught a few perch. That will be interesting in the spring when everything is goin crazy down there pre-spawn.
Thanks guys, for the pics & reports.
We went down yesterday & fished one of my favorite feeders with the boat. Very windy,,, so windy that we were blowing UP CREEK! Like Up-River white-caps!
Anyway,,,,, we slip-egged & jigged fatheads & shiners, and threw every color & type of rubber into every nook & cranny, & never had a hit!
3 other bank fisherman there & they never got a hit.
TOO COLD???
Thanks guys, for the pics & reports.
We went down yesterday & fished one of my favorite feeders with the boat. Very windy,,, so windy that we were blowing UP CREEK! Like Up-River white-caps!
Anyway,,,,, we slip-egged & jigged fatheads & shiners, and threw every color & type of rubber into every nook & cranny, & never had a hit!
3 other bank fisherman there & they never got a hit.
TOO COLD???
I hit a creek too yesterday looking to see if the white bass have started to run up the creeks yet. The creek was crystal clear but I didn't have a bite and didn't see a fish. I knew I was in trouble when I saw a pretty good sized school of shiners just sitting there and nothing was bothering them. I think this past weekends cold snap may have pushed them back out to deeper water.
Hit below the dam for a couple hours this afternoon. The wind was brutal, blowing straight up river. I was able to catch a sauger and a nice sized white bass. Missed a couple hits that were probably small sauger. I was throwing a jig and grub most of the time. Gonna try to get out tomorrow if the wind isn't howling.
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