What I learned today.
Went to Pickwick but didn't count on the water below the dam being as high as it was. No crappie bite so started throwing the tungsten jig and letting it hit bottom....which today was 40 feet. Caught a bunch of very short sauger...and a bunch of 6 inch Gills. Now I fished salt water for 21 years and am very familiar with air bladders bringing up grouper...snapper and so on. When I released the sauger off he swam to the depths. When I released the Gills they flopped around on the surface. So I put some water in my bucket and threw them in there until they stayed upright and then when released back to the river off they swam. Never experienced this before. Water temp was 49 degrees at surface. Always something new to learn. The sauger were plentiful below dam. Lot of boats around and bank fisherman also but no one had a legal sauger all day. Need the water to get back to around 361 for me to try again...today was 371.
Regards
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