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Anyone Shore Fishing yet?

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The walleyes are starting to run up under the dams here on the WI river, wondering if anyone has been hitting up Pool 2 from shore yet? Specifically the creek outlet, under the dam, hidden falls area? I'll be back in a few days and wouldn't mind checking it out.

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i think i'm going to the ford dam area after work today. probably be down there around 4:30. i'm thinking about going to the minnehaha creek side. never fished there.

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Was out for a few hours on the St. Paul side this morning throwin' white twisters and some ringworms, landed one carp and had something else on that broke off about a minute into the fight. There was about 7-8 trailers parked at the ramp but only saw one boat by the dam. Might have to get the boat running and head back there this weekend

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Thanks for the boat report. If the warm keeps up for the next week, my ice fishing gear maybe put away and then the boat comes out.

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I went down to Hidden Falls after work on Wednesday just to see what was going on... one boat trailer, guy said they "caught a few"

Tossed out a couple crappie minnows I had from the last time I went ice fishing, nothing but snags. River is low right now, boat access up there would probably be key to getting fish, as there aren't many low-current or breakline areas accessible from shore right there

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was down at hidden falls for about 1.5 hours. shore fished from the boat launch up to the dam pretty much. nothing. one guy near me caught a small catfish & someone on the mpls side caught a decent crappie. i'm thinking about heading to nicollet island tomorrow.

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On thursday I went down to the Minnehaha creek side. The creek is running muddy and very low. The water level in the river is low too in that area. You can almost walk right up to the drop off for the main channel. I was just scouting and left my gear in my truck, but I'll be back to there sometime next week.

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I was down there on sunday just throwing crawlers. Caught nothing except for a mudpuppy. At least i can add it to species list.

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