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jjkrooked
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Got on the water around 6:30am and motored to a spot I never fished and a spot I havent fished in years in search of some "River Rat" winning eye's. The day started off good with low winds and good bite. first fish of the day was a short sauger with three missed bites and another short sauger. My next spot landed me a 17 1/2 in eye so I got out of there in hopes of preserving the bite in that area till next weekend. Off to my usual fishing holes. I ended the day with 2 short saugers 2 short walleyes a smallmouth and the 17 1/2 in eye and some wind burn.I am going to pay for getting up so early and going fishing as I have to work a 12 tonight 3-3  I sure hope it is not that windy next weekend.
TEAM REDNECK how'd you guys end the day?
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Redneck
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Jesse, We got spanked! We stumbled into some fair sized sunnies and played with them for awhile but other than them and the smallies we stunk. My old spots were dead and I remembered why I don't fish the St. Croix much---it fishes more like a lake than a river. The wind messed with us but we should have got fish but didn't. About half way through the morning I told the boy that I thought we should pass on next weekend and he said "I was hoping you were going to say that". We're letting you have all our fish spots buddy--we have none---so go out and win that thing! It was a nice day to be on the water though.
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King185
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I was able to make out today as well... didn't really do much walleye fishing though. I launched around 8:30, pulled cranks for about an hour and then had a time-out from 9:30 to noon (waiting for my wife to join me - she got delayed...  ).
We then headed over to a well-known sturgeon spot and tried our hands at catching a few of those. Even though this spot was somewhat out of the main force of the winds, it was still enough to give the anchors a thorough work out. I never did get them stuck well enough to keep us completely stationary so we ended up swinging a bit. We fished there from about noon 'til about 3 pm and ended up with two small sturgeon, a big carp-sucker, and the obligate sheephead. The first sturgeon hit pretty soon after I finally got everything rigged up and taped in at 29". My wife brought that one in and I think she was surprised by the fight given by the fish... The second was came about an hour later and I had the pleasure of reeling that one in - it taped out at 31".
I was using circle hooks and a 3/4 oz slipweight. With as much as the boat was still moving, I probably should have gone heavier and chucked it out away from the boat... oh well, we still caught a few fish and few rays!
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jjkrooked
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Rich,
I think the wind played a major factor in fishing last friday. I ended up getting blown off the water. the further upstream I was the windier it got (seemed like anyways).
King185,
Good to see you got into some sturgeon. I've never fished for them but I would like to give it a try sometime. I am suprised that your pictures didnt get any grief for the bridge in the background 
King are you fishing the River Rat tourney?
Jesse
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King185
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King185,
Good to see you got into some sturgeon. I've never fished for them but I would like to give it a try sometime. I am suprised that your pictures didnt get any grief for the bridge in the background
 I should mention that I photo-shopped in that background... that's not really where I was fishing 
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King are you fishing the River Rat tourney?
I was hoping to get to that one this year but it looks like I'm going to have visitors this weekend... I may make it out on the water on Saturday but I doubt I'll enter the River Rat...
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