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Location: Rochester, MN | I was out fishing wingdams for a couple hours last evening and ran into these critters. I noticed they were nice sized and I was thinking how good they might taste so what the heck I brought a few home for a snack. Ive never seen them this thick on the wingdams.
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| Those look like some nice ones. Were you down by desota? |
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Location: Rochester, MN | No I was on pool 8 in La Crosse. I could feel this rata tat tat on my line on every cast and I thought what in the world is down there. Then I downsized the hook a bit and used a chunk of crawler and started catching them one after the other. And most of them were good sized. They were just ravenous and so was I once I set them on my plate.  |
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Location: Chicago IL. | I guess what I have heard is true. The bull bluegills are on the wings. Great time to get the kids out and have fun. Hougie hows the bite up in tremp. |
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Location: Rochester, MN | Check your private mail sir. |
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Hello hougie,
I'm from LaCrosse also and went out walleye fishing on the wing dams and was
using a shad rap and was getting taps like you were then findly caught a 81/2
inch bluegill on it.I also fish pool 8, went out friday at little after 4 o' clock and
took home 11 really nice gills.
What landing do you put in at, I use 7th street.
I was wondering what is the water temp the walleye start biting on the wing dams.
I forgot to write it down last year. The temp tonight was 67 degrees.
good luck, Birdhunter
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Location: Rochester, MN | Hello. Yes the bluegills are thick and pretty much everywhere you go Ive found. I went out again not long after my initial post and caught over 25 of them in 1 hour. That wasnt fishing it was catching. And the best ones were between 8 and 9 inches. Some of them were down as deep as 18 feet and some were on top of the dam, in front of the dam, behind the dam, basically all over the thing. There is a wingdam I have found them on to be ridiculously available.
Kept a few for dinner and then promptly ended my bluegill fishing career as Im pretty much only interested in walleyes.
I would not worry about the temperature of the water having so much of an effect on the wingdam bite. There are several factors. First and foremost which dam you are fishing and how you're fishing it. I have found one wingdam that has produced on pool 8 throughout the summer regardless of the tough bite but you really have to fish outside the box to get them. It has good flow on it even when the flow is so low as it has been. Im talking about the right mono light jigs and half a crawler presented in such a way that they cant resist and when they do bite it is so light that you can miss them easily.
As always fishing will pick up every day from here on out. Remember shortening of the days and baitfish supply dwindling will also trigger walleyes to feed. As well as some more flow. So hope for a little more rain so these fish arent so scattered. Also some cold nights will get rid of some baitfish and that will help. It will be a slow process but before you know it you will start getting more bites and hopefully more fish.
I use several landings on pool 8 to launch municipal, 7th st., I-90, clinton st. it just depends where Im fishing that particular day. But probably in that order in terms of where I launch the most often. |
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