mississippi river Mississippi River North Fishing Reports

[Rick G]

Those are the Jeremy Campbell edition painting/fishing pants, perfect for the painter on the go

[JeremyCampbell]

Lol,I get stuff about my painting cloths all the time when I'm fishing.Even the dnr made a joke when I was on a boat a few wks ago on a lake while counting my gills

[Rick G]

Tried the area around the hwy24 bridge in Clearwater this evening

Cats is what we were after, would like to say we did good, but can't lie. We did get a few hard hits on whole dead shiners, but no hook ups, except one large-mad rubberback turtle. This was the only fish I got to see The bug hatch wasn't near as bad as it is around St. Cloud, but there is still plenty of may flies in the area. we did get to see a pretty cool sunset though

I think I'm going to take a break from the cats and focus more on smallies for the next month or so

[JeremyCampbell]

Let's go wading!

[eyeguy 54]

toasty the next few days. might need to go again.

[JeremyCampbell]

Im going tommorrow.Going to try a few areas,from sartell to the cloud.I saw a nice ancor in Sauk rapids when I was wadeing in the fall last year It was sitting on top of a rock in the middle of the river.If it's still there its going home with me.

[JeremyCampbell]

I went out for the first half today and wasn't much happening on waders.Only a few popped out.Going above the mill later with the boat to try some more.

[eyeguy 54]

I hit a few spots, pretty slow and wore me out.

[Huntin&Fishin]

Tried the mouth of the Sauk yesterday, had one blow up on top water thats it.

[Rick G]

Got out for a bit around the islands South of town. Bass were hard to keep hooked, walleyes and northerns were a bit easier . Didn't get any big ones but had some fun anyway . I hear there is a good bite for the smallies going from 6:30-8am on plastics and topwater, but I can't confirm it, as I have been working early mornings lately

[JeremyCampbell]

What's that on the end of that fish,I havnt seen those before?Tried above the mill on boat and got skunked.I didn't get mad this time lol I went home and said "well whatever's"

[Rick G]

  JeremyCampbell said:

What's that on the end of that fish,I havnt seen those before?Tried above the mill on boat and got skunked.I didn't get mad this time lol I went home and said "well whatever's"

That's a no. 5 Mepps inline spinner.

[LPCrowRiverFisherman]

That's a lure that everyone should have in their box because they catch all kinds of fish.

[eyeguy 54]

4's and 3's are plentiful in my box.

[JeremyCampbell]

I think I have one type but nothing in that color.

[Pikestabber77]

How's the top water smallie action been?

[Stick in Mud]

The topwater bite is going pretty good at low light conditions for me. And since I don't get up that early, that means around sunset.

[Pikestabber77]

Fished yesterday from 12-4 caught 13 on a white buzzbait. The fish were really close to the bank within 2-3 feet

[Stick in Mud]

The heat forced me to do some wading today...and the results were as expected: Plenty of smallish fish with a few decent ones mixed in. I've been lucky enough over the last few weeks to fish everywhere from the Root River down in SE MN to the Vermilion River in north central MN--focusing, of course, on areas closer to home--and the story is pretty much the same wherever I've been.

Put on grubby tennis shoes. Find a smallish river. Walk around. Find some deep holes. Plunk a soft plastic, topwater, spinner or grub into the deep hole or behind any obvious current breaks, and hold on.

And while my mushroom hunting has been in a bit of a decline due to the month-long rainless stretch, it sure makes those rivers low and clear.

[JeremyCampbell]

It's a real nice evening just to be outside.I didn't have the full moon madness like others but A few fish were happy to eat a minnow or two.I stayed out till nine o clock and tucked the kids in bed.Hope this full moon phase brings good fishing and a cool report from ya'all.

[mattpaumen]

Time has been hard to come by lately, but I was able to put the waders on one day last week for a couple hours of fun on the sip'! Picked up a couple dozen sucker minnows and headed out to an area near Becker. The afternoon started really well, but I only had one small area that seemed to be holding fish and it slowed down a bit after an hour. Caught around 15 smallies with the biggest being around 17". Not the greatest day as far as size goes, but it was still great to put a bend in the rod again! I hope to do more of that in the next couple months before we are back on the ice!

[JeremyCampbell]

I was out till 3am in St Cloud.East and West side of the river.Theres definitely no shortage of crappies in that area.Phew! I didn't even have time to sip some water.

[Rick G]

When the heck do you sleep? Seems like you are always out fishing, and this is coming from a guy that is always out fishing

[eyeguy 54]

I think he might be a Zombie... maybe not, he smiles too much.

[JeremyCampbell]

Played around in sartell till 10:30pm.Crappies are hanging in shallow areas almost a few ft from shore which is very different from there mid yr places.Keeping a night bobber 2.5'-4' from my glow jigs.Crappies were very stubborn in sartell compared to st cloud but they kept me busy enough to stay longer.The size of the crappies were between 8" and 10.25'.This week I'd like to see what's new above the sartell dam with the boat.I want to see if the annual fall crappies are biteing up there yet.

[Rick G]

  JeremyCampbell said:

This week I'd like to see what's new above the sartell dam with the boat.I want to see if the annual fall crappies are biteing up there yet.

You should do well, the crappies are biting up and down the river, once you find them you got it made.

[NELS-BELLS]

My son and I put the boat in north of Sartell yesterday afternoon for the first time all summer. We found the Smallies to be biting pretty good. Ended up with 17 for 3 hours of fishing. Largest was 19" and had 3 more in the 17" range. Most fish were caught with flukes in shallow current breaks.

Nels

[JeremyCampbell]

Was that you two I fished around 75' from last night above the big blue?

[NELS-BELLS]

  JeremyCampbell said:

Was that you two I fished around 75' from last night above the big blue?

I doubt it. We were in a blue Crestliner with a full windshield.

What is the big blue? ...the paper mill?

The only time we were near another boat that was fishing was at the Rice bridge.

Nels

[JeremyCampbell]

Anyone know when the late,late night bite has been starting? I lost track of it.The late,late bite was good around 1:30am a few wks ago and a couple weeks before that it was 12:30 am.I'm Thinking il try late late again tonight and see what the river wants me to catch.