Good Day of Catching

[bowhunterfanatic]

Took off work today today to enjoy the beautiful weather and to see if I could maybe catch a keeper sauger. This has been the craziest year of sauger fishing I ever remember. Short fish are EVERYWHERE, but almost no keepers are being caught from Pickwick Dam to the Clifton bridge. We opted to just fish the dam today instead of going on a wild goose chase downriver. Today was likely the most sauger I've ever caught in a single day. We ran out of minnows twice and finally resorted to using plastic for the last 20 or so minutes and just kept on catchin' em. We are pretty certain we caught 120+ fish, with at least 110 of those being short. No telling how many 14+ inch females we threw back. We managed to scratch out 10 keepers and felt fortunate to have that many. Hopefully in the next few weeks some good schools of bigger fish will start showing up.

 

[MickThompson]

That certainly bodes well for the fishery coming back

 

[WTM]

great report. had to burn friday and monday vacation that i had planned to head down.

 

[RUGER]

Sounds like a great day !!

 

[megalomaniac]

Awesome!

How deep and what oz jighead?

 

[Displaced_Vol]

I really, really want to try and sauger fish this year. It's been years since I've been it was always one of my grandfathers favorite things to fish. Congrats on a good day!

 

[Crappieaddict]

Great day!

 

[RobDooley]

Great day!

what he said

 

[bowhunterfanatic]

Awesome!

How deep and what oz jighead?

We were actually fishing pretty shallow for us most of the day. 21-28 feet. 1 1/4 oz jig tipped with minnow. Yesterday the biggest minnows we had seemed to get the biggest bites. That's unusual for us.