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One Week!!!


Jordyn Kaufer

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One week till opener on the croix!!

cant wait!

(I think the river opens on the 2nd right??)

where is everyone going down there?

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Less than a week, I can hardly wait. The 2nd is correct. I will be fishing with Andy (TooMuchFun) and plan to start by Prescott and work our way up to The Bluffs or possibly the Kini depending on where we are finding fish.

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I will be out during the week. I figure less traffic and I am a beginner to walleye and river fishing, but any day of fishing beats working.

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I'll be going down on Monday, to hit some spots. Fished Prescott area friday was alittle slower than normal. smallies were starting to hit.

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I'll wait until the monday after the opener and launch at the franconia access and hit the backwaters for some pike and whities. Hopefully the water will come up a little by then.

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We will be out of Copas or Franconia,should be a great opening weekend!! work has been somewhat slow so I have been on the river alot lately chasing crappies and silvers and picking up walleyes too. I think the feed bag will be on !!

good luck.

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i hope that kings cove will let me take off friday to get the boat ready saturday to fish and saunday to get it outta my system for now, and i read that the smallies are bitting. Just wondering are they mainly up by shore in the rocks, or are they deep. Because i know where we fish for eyes and saugers its anywhere from 12'-22' and the shore line is all rocks so would that be a good spot to try for some or no. I have always been a panfish and walleye guy but i think it would be kinda fun to get into some smallies i have caught them b4 by accident but i really wanna try fot them this year. Another thing... what does a guy use for smallies.. would it be like tube jigs or plastics or what. I dont need any hot baits, just some that i could maybe hook onto.

Thanks for all the help.

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Smallies aren't open and won't be for about a month!....don't fish for them. If you want smallies, fish pool 3 below the tracks. It's continous there!

But yes, tubes, small plastics, x-raps, drop shotting all works on the river, they make seasonal movements, the small ones are always easy to find, the big ones can be a bit more fickle. Rocks, sand, suspended...just gotta search.

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What have you be using to target the silvers and crappies? Have you been out around Copas?

Thanks,

TB

For the most part I have been using the old standard jig/minnow with 4# line and as light of a jig as I can. copas has been producing some silvers(they seem scattered) I have yet to catch a crappie In that stretch of river,Franconia and north is where i find crappies and when I do I have yet t ever really get Into em' but when you catch one It usually Is a SLAB! and they seem to like the jig/minnow combo fished slowly,sometimes just holding the jig 1 foot off bottom will work great.

A guy could propably do alot better for crappies fishing the Bayport area and South but I just like the scenery and quietness of the Upper part of the lower St croix.

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Smallies can make a day go faster, if you can't find the walleyes or saugers. I'll miss the weekend fishing for Taxidermy classes. But have the whole open to hammer the tar out of them.

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I'll be out on the Croix Saturday morning -- can't wait!!!!!!!!

See ya out there!

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Less than a week, I can hardly wait. The 2nd is correct. I will be fishing with Andy (TooMuchFun) and plan to start by Prescott and work our way up to The Bluffs or possibly the Kini depending on where we are finding fish.

I'll be out there with a couple of buddies in the same spot at 5 AM. Look me up, haven't seen ya guys in a while.

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