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  • April 30, 2017 at 11:36 am #142284
    Jfro50
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      Location: Cologne,MN
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      Myself and a buddy went out for the opener. We fished from 94 bridge north to power plant. We were trolling cranks all day with a mix of lead core and fireline. We ended up keeping 9 fish from 15″-18″. Our experience was this
      -Leadcore worked better than longline, even if not needed for the depth.
      – Most our fish came in 17-20 ft range
      -water was up over last year and current was also
      – caught lots of fish early, then when traffic picked up fish moved off shoreline break and spread out
      – caught a lot of 14-14 1/2″ fish
      – water temp was around 50 all day
      – water was dirty and lots of stuff floating down river

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      April 30, 2017 at 8:24 pm #700832
      NomadicAngler
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        Did you catch any white bass? I’ll be fishing the croix Friday and Saturday, and hoping to find a bunch of those.

        April 30, 2017 at 9:15 pm #700833
        budboy
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          Did better than me fished 7-noon only caught 11 no keepers. fished from the bluffs all the way down to Prescott trolled and pulled lindys. Lindys did better but all shorts best bite was 18-21ft. But better than sitting at home

          May 2, 2017 at 10:39 am #700831
          Jfro50
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            No white bass. All we caught were walleye and sauger

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            May 3, 2017 at 4:31 pm #700830
            PatrickR
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              Location: oakdale
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              Nice work Jfro50! Any hot colors for crankbaits? Guessing the usual firetiger was good. For some reason in the river leadcore usually outfishes long line for me too on most trips.

              May 18, 2017 at 9:09 pm #700834
              Barrythecableman12
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                We caught 12 for the 3 of us but i could put together no real pattern other than the depth lines. No color or bait really did better or worse and the fish seemed very scattered not in active schools. Normally i am looking for schools of bait fish to figure 8 over but no luck there either. Caught lost of sauger right next the the 94 bridge off the edge of the rocks but no really nice ones. Those were caught on jigs and minnows.

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