Pool13 - 09/08/10

I hit 13 on Wednesday to see if I could find some slabs. The water is still very high and swift in the upper sloughs. I had temps just under 68, everywhere I went.

I sure found the crappies, but only 12 made it into the boat, along with a 38" gar. I had many additional crappies on, but I was definitely off my game and kept losing them. My first bite of the day was a monster slab that broke my line as I was hoisting it into the boat. Typically, I don't use a net. I best change that approach.

I got most fish right at the edge of the faster water, next to slack water. I had to upsize to 1/8 ounce jigs, for best results. Every fish was caught on chartreuse tubes tipped with minnows. Of the fish I brought home, eight were at least 12" long. They were really nice fish.

It was a great day, with the exception of my trolling motoring not running right, my livewell pump leaking, and the aero-bait bucket pump not pumping. No pictures, because someone left the camera at home, and it was dark, when I returned.

Hitting it again this weekend.

Sounds like my typical outing....congratulations.

We fish 18 or 19. You must be up by Savannah?? I love fishing the broke down duck blinds:D

Back in the 60's I use to ice fish in the Savanna area on the Mississippi. I recall catching some big slabs through the ice in about three feet of water in the backwaters.

Pool 13 runs from Bellevue Iowa on the north end, to Fulton Illinois on the south end. Savanna is in the the middle. I fish up near the north end.

My brother and I ice fished up there 2 years ago and there were some dandy crappie up there. The bite lasted for about an hour or so and then it shut off soon as it started. When it was on everyone was catching them when it was off seemed like nobody was catching them. Amazing. It was like the school of fish came in and fed and were gone.