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Pool 4 report 4/30/14

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The wife and i got out on pool 4 early , Launched out of everts the bite was kinda slow at 1st but it did start to pick the closer we got to noon , We caught a few keeper walleyes and a bunch of small ones, My wife did end up getting her 1st sturgeon so that was cool about 30" . Needless to say i will be going back . Anyone else having luck ?

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3 of us launched from Everts on Sunday morning at about 7am. Fished up by dam 25-30 feet was best for us. Had a great morning bite. 2 fish short of a limit by 10:15. Took some work to get the last two though. Jig/minnow took all fish. Tried plastics and blades for a little bit. A lot of guys we talked to weren't doing as good as us. Trick was to keep bait almost motionless.

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I enjoy getting out walleye fishing as much as anybody but my advice would be to wait at least a week before venturing down to Red Wing if you have to drive any distance. Yesterday it was absolutely dead up by the dam and by the lock and the Vermilion River. Out of maybe 50 or 60 boats over the 6 hours I was down there I saw around 10 fish caught and half of those were dinks. It's just been too darn cold and the fish have definitely not moved up in any mass run yet.

With that said, I 100% believe that some guys are finding pods of fish that will bite like last weekend when it was nicer and they probably had a great day. It's just not going like some would like to believe quite yet.

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We found with the water being dirty we had to use bright colors, during bright sun, and shallower! have to admit though, we caught more than most if not all boats there. WE saw maybe 6 fish caught by others. Only 2 were under the size and lost maybe 10 because we could not see them near the surface in the current! Don't over work your bait. the fish are there and they are hungry!

ps. we fished from 11 till 2:30

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I was out last saturday 03/29. the bite was really slow in the morning and got better around 11 for my boat, 20-28fow. we fished from the dam all the past the vermilion a bit.

best bite was on orange or chartreuse jigs/minnow, 3way with a bright colored hook/minnow but plastics purple/chart or firecracker/chart tail pulseR's caught bigger fish. slow slow presentation worked best. either draggin or a slow 6" lift/drop.

none on blades but as the water rises that bite should pick up as well. we boated quite a few fish and put 11 in the box.

my bud got his 1st paddlefish which was a very very nice bonus.

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my other bud's 1st trip to RW

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the fishing will only get better from here on out gang

good luck n see ya out there

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that 1 fish makes up for all the lil ones donest it?

great job

when i chase after the bigguns, i usually dont catch much maybe a handful of fish a day but when i do they're usually 25'+

i hope this melt will help get the bigguns really turning on

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that 1 fish makes up for all the lil ones donest it?

great job

when i chase after the bigguns, i usually dont catch much maybe a handful of fish a day but when i do they're usually 25'+

i hope this melt will help get the bigguns really turning on

Oh you bet! We were giddy for sure. We caught some males that were milking today, any day now it will blow open.

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