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RIVER SMALLIES!


outdooraddict

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This is my first year attending st cloud state college. The warm weather was killing me so brought a rod back up with me last weekend. I went fishing on the downstream side of a dam next to the campus. Went through a dozen crawlers in 45 minutes. I caught a bunch of smallies the biggest being 19 1/2 inches!!!!!!! Biggest smallmouth bass I had ever seen.

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Nice work man, that is interesting, i was wondering when the first river smallies were going to be caught. Its nice to know that they are starting to turn on. I hope the crappies will start here soon Im hoping to get into those this weekend.

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Where do you guys fish crappies on the river. Shoot me and email at [email protected] so there wont be a thoudand people out there and when do you typically fish them.

Scott

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Addict,
I graduated from SCSU a couple years back and would catch alot of nice fish out of the river. The smallies are huge. The real secret of the river is the carp fishin. Bring a can of corn and a case of beer down to the dam in August and youll have a good time. Drop me an email and Ill share some of my secrets with ya. [email protected]

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-Gundy

I am intrested in hearing some of your strategies for fishing at the river in st cloud. I tried to email you but both times that I tried I was sent an error report saying that the email did not go through. Did you put your email address in right? Anyways you can email me at [email protected]

-Any pointers would be appreciated.
ps- I already got that case of beer thing down.

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