Twain - From Crankin' To Corkin'

Happy belated Thanksgiving to everyone!

Sorry for the delay in the report however, the holidays have been busy! As the report suggests (and if you remember my post from a couple weeks ago) we caught good crappie/walleye pulling cranks on Twain not too long ago. Fast forward two weeks and a change in techniques, Dad and I found em hot and heavy wayyyyy up river. I can tell you that a long boat ride up river when Twain is at 602 makes for an interesting adventure. We've done it many times but always seem to find new structure.

Sun was out, water was a little stained (presumably from the Corp. pulling water) and the fish were hungry.

Kept these 26 and put a bunch of shorts back to grow up. All caught in 3-5 ft. of water running a jig 18" under a cork.

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Hard to beat a good fish fry in the duck pit.

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Nice!

Nice looking fish there.

Robbie u are full of surprises. Congrats and hope your drive home is safe.

WOW! Great fishing that shallow this time of year! Almost like they were on the spawn!

Very nice fish. Congrats and thanks for the photo and report

What was the main lake water temp and river temp?

Thanks and congrats on a great trip.

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Originally Posted by Dongotto

What was the main lake water temp and river temp?

Thanks and congrats on a great trip.

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Main lake and river temp's were about the same (low/mid 50's) but I think that was due to time of the day I happened to glance at the electronics. I would have expected the river to be a bit cooler however, full sunshine will work wonders on skinny water.

Gotta love that slip cork fishing in the winter. Gonna have to head to my spot a see if it's started here yet.

awesome report thanks for the info and the photo

Those look really good. Guess Richard told you i'm all in to them crankbaits!!!!!!!

Aint been to Twain in many moons need to go back beautiful lake...props on the cork bite