Saugers 12-21-15
Pulled a sun up-sun down sauger trip today with a friend of mine ive finally been able to hook up and fish with.
From the get go, the water was slowly dropping and the flow from Cordell was reduced to 19k.....the combination of those plus the mid 50's water temp is making quality fish hard to pin-point. My good spot still had fish but they were being finicky on the bite. No hard hits, they would just suck it gently off bottom which makes detecting a hit difficult cause by the time you realize they are there, its too late for a solid hook-up. Still plenty of hits, but few hook-ups. My buddy did talk a nice solid river walleye into the boat.
The dropping level and slower flow scattered the fish but we did find a decent little group super shallow behind and island. But again the finicky biting made solid hook ups hard.
We hit several other areas and managed 2 keeper saugers, a few lost keepers and a few more hooked/lost fish.
Overall for tough conditions i think we faired out pretty well.
Where current would allow, the blade bait did get more solid hook-ups over live bait. Fish just cant resisit the thump!
I will post some pics tommorow.
Need a solid deep freeze to smack these fish into thier normal routine!
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