Summer Question.....

[Stratosman]

I typically have three spinning rigs set up for the river, one with 6# mono for live bait rigging, one with 8# mono for rigging and some jigging, and one with 14# fireline with a mono or flouro leader for jigging...we are talking walleyes and smallmouth, 2 or 3 rods should cover you just fine.

Until you get into trolling, then I run either lead core or 14# fireline on either a casting reel or a linecounter.

I guess it depends alot on your style of fishing...

[TRZ]

Sorry i don't drink and drive, have fun in your cigar boat. noise pollution is also and issue on weekends.

[Sandbar]

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Sorry i don't drink and drive, have fun in your cigar boat. noise pollution is also and issue on weekends.

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I don't have a cigar boat, and I didn't suggest you should drink and drive. You calling out "all" cigar boat drivers are drunk is just ridiculous. Noise pullution too??? Sounds like the Croix is just too busy for you. Try a lake 7-8 hours North of the Twin Cities, it might be more to your liking. But, watch out for all the drunk sea-doo riders.

[lazermule]

Any of you guys ever try fishing the Croix up by the Hwy 70 bridge. I pass over it everytime I go to my cabin and I'd like to try it. I have a 17 foot Alumacraft Deep V with a 60 hp tiller, is this too much boat for up there?

Also, one of you said that the DNR sets up shop at the highbridge and doesn't let anyone north, is that just for the opening weekend? Because of spawning?

LM

[john.wells]

You can launch and fish around the bridge area for sure, but I wouldn't get to excited about going too far up or downstream. Unless you have a jet drive or an outboard you don't care too much about.

[lazermule]

John,

So how is the fishing up there around the bridge. I have a cabin in Webster, WI so I may drop in the river on my way to or from one of these days. I don't live too far from Stacy, actually I am on teh eastern border of E. Bethel.

Who is the guy in Stacy that does props?

LM

[jrj]

if your talking about the going north of the checkpoint north of stillwater... the DNR doesn't allow boat traffic north due to the spread of Zebra mussels. if you want to continue north of the highbridge/checkpoint area, the boat has to come out and get cleaned before heading up. I start north of it so unfortunately it stops me from coming down and enjoying the fishing with most of the folks on this site.

[john.wells]

The fishing up there can be downright incredible, but the current will drive you nuts. The best thing to do is to focus on the shoreline with anything that breaks the current such as rocks, trees, island cuts, etc... Also, you can do well in the deep pools and pockets. Depending on what you target, you can expect a mixed bag just like anywhere on the river. The one thing you have going up there is hardly any pressure, but that is because it is so unforgiving for most motorized vessels. The water around the bridge is relatively deep and you can expect some cats, sturgeon, walleye, and a variety of rough fish on a simple bottom rig with a crawler. Anchoring can be a royal pain, but if you get it to set you can do pretty good. One word of advice with an anchor-you might want to hook it to the eye you use for loading it onto the trailer and have a sharp knife handy to cut the rope in a hurry if catches hard. That current can pull a boat down.

[john.wells]

I forgot to mention that the prop guy is Mark's Prop Shop. He does an awesome job on props and skegs.