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hnd

11-13-2007, 10:01 AM

Talking with a friend this weekend. Over the weekend he caught over 30 sauger at the slough. fishing by boat in 7-10 ft of water on the arsenal side

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a387/micahandari/slough.jpg

me and harpenter ventured out there last night to the east end and didn't have any luck with twistertails...i caught a striper and he caught some goofy minnow that he was all excited about...and i snagged a frikkin drum

the bait of choice has been chartuese jigs and twistertails tipped with a minnow. bouncing it off the bottom. though he talked to a guy who was catching just as many without the minnows...

and they've been catching them in midday in overcast weather.

we hope to get over to the arsenal side as he said when they've been out there, those guys seem to have more luck...

we COULD get out on the boat but SOMEONE has winterized it already...

just an fyi....

gofish

11-13-2007, 07:12 PM

hnd.......thats the perfect depth fer the cranks were usin....berkley frenzys.....im runnin 30 lb power pro an beatin the bottom down ta bout 8ft with em.....real slow steady ,or stop n go retrieve....somedays theyre wantin it goin upriver stead of with the current.....

hnd

11-13-2007, 08:53 PM

harpenter

11-14-2007, 10:26 AM

he caught some goofy minnow that he was all excited about

Just because you're fishing knowledge didn't include the elusive Quillback, don't take it out on me!

BTW, how did that drum taste?

hnd

11-14-2007, 10:43 AM

Just because you're fishing knowledge didn't include the elusive Quillback, don't take it out on me!

carp is carp to me.....or maybe i should turn around the "a" and "r" in those...

Illinoisgiller

11-14-2007, 11:06 AM

Congradulations go to-------harpenter!! :party0011::party0011:
I had to Google up the Quillback Carpsucker to find out what it was . The last part of the description said--- "very hard to catch using traditional angling methods" :icon_cool::icon_cool: They get up to 26"
Good report hnd, I just couldn't help myself.:confused0024:lol

CrappieKeith

11-14-2007, 12:22 PM

great report.
How did you do that aireal pic with the circle????

hnd

11-14-2007, 02:37 PM

google earth.

then print screen and paste it into microsoft paint.

anyway,

we went out and tried a different spot

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a387/micahandari/slough2.jpg

we were under neath the railroad bridge to the right.....we caught 2....a 12" sauger and a a 18.5" sauger that we are guessing was all of 3lbs....

i've got pics...the other circle was full of anglers...a guy told me that those guys are limiting out but it gets packed..

edit...and we were only there for 45 minutes...

hnd

11-14-2007, 04:35 PM

here she is...

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a387/micahandari/walleyesylvanslough.jpg

Timotha7

11-14-2007, 04:36 PM

That is a very nice sauger!
Thanks for sharing

Tim

hnd

11-14-2007, 05:06 PM

i can't wait for the walleye to move in..

harp is going again tonight....i'm going to have to woo the wife...

hnd

11-20-2007, 12:02 PM

just an fyi, its been dead for the past few days. 2 cold fronts have moved through, changing the weather into an up and down pattern.

we've been going at night and during lunchtime. no real luck. trying 3 different spots....everyone else has been light on the bite as well.

i will be heading out on friday/sat mornings. hopefully this 3rd cold front holds off.

gofish

11-20-2007, 07:15 PM

good luck....i bought round 50 of them frenzys on sale fer 2 bucks a piece lol....cold fronts suck purty bad......aint havin much luck findin the eyes or sauger myself this year.....low water /no current fer the last 5 months has got em scattered bad....rivers slowly gittin back up there now finally so maybe theyll start schoolin up again....hope so cause im sure hungry fer some,gittin a lil tired of blue cat lol