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Could someone give a few pointers for fishing pool 4 on Monday. I don't have experience with the river or fishing this early.

Is it safe in a boat? No ice chunks to worry about? Are there any smallmouth or is this just a walleye spot?

If you could give us some advice on 1 or 2 things to do to catch a few fish. Willing to fish for White Bass, Smallmouth or Walleye. Thx!

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Should be plenty safe,just keep your eyes open there could be ice or logs that barely float and are darn near invisible.As far as the fishing goes jig/minnow jig/plastics,not really to sure as I havnt been down there for a few weeks now,but those two combinations usually work try both as you can fish two lines.Good luck.

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The whitebass are not running yet and I personally have never seen anybody catching smallmouth there this time of year.

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Get in line with the yo-yo jiggin crowd up by the dam, Y, and Vermillion and slip the current if you want numbers of fish. Try to stay as vertical as you can with your trolling motor.

Holding the jig still a few inches off the bottom generally gets you bit more than an active jigging motion when the water is cold like it is now.

Three-waying with either bait or raps on the current seams is a good numbers game too.

If you haven't done much river fishing though, I would just get yourself a wad of 1/4-3/8 oz jigs or hair jigs, some minnows, plastics, and go that route.

Also, try to stay on the current seams/breaks and you will be more successful than the guys that just drift aimlessly down the river.

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Thanks for the advice everyone! We aren't much for Walleye fisherman but I think we could give it a try and see what happens!

What about Pepin? The Pepin conditions thread seems dead. Anybody fishing Smallmouth there? Or are we still a couple of weeks early

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Pepin still has ice down at the foot, waiting to see the Ice conditions updated by the Corp of engineers.

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The Corp did Ice testing on April 2nd. No ice from the dam to mile marker 777.

Down at the foot of Pepin there was 8 to 15 inches of ice still.

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Griggs- My buddy picked up a dandy Smallie on the left side of the Y a couple weeks back.It was an incidental catch during a day full of walleye n sauger action.

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RumRiverRat, I'm not sure where mile 777 is but I gather we are a couple of weeks from fishing Pepin.

Flaco651, I that means there could be some there. Just all you Walleye guys aren't going after em!

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777 is between point no point and Lake City.

Do you happen to have a link to a map that shows this stuff? I'm not finding much online...

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Last year at the end of march we were catching smallies on blade baits down the can line while pitching for eyes. Haven't made it over there yet this year. But we got into a pretty good school of them.

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This guide should tell you almost anything you need to know about navigating the river.

Just what I needed, thanks!

Thanks Wily, we will give it a try!

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I'm also pretty new to the river thing but hoping to get out there soon. I hear and read a lot about "Current Seams". how do you identify these while on the water? are you using electronics or is there rippling that you see or what?

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