3-10-23 White River Report

[Bill Babler]

Thought this might be the last nice day for a while so got on the water at 7 out of SK. 

Total Mud to San Succi, it starts clearing there and that is where the bite starts.  Had a great day today and really hated to quit. 

Kind of made a milk run on gravel banks and I think you could have just went back and back over the same stuff.

RK Crawler and a custom painted Wart. Caught one on a Ned just to say I did but it was a crank bait bite today.

Surface temps to 52 late in the day and most all fish under 8’  Flat points and flatter gravel stuff. Did not get bit as well on the steeper chunk. 

Nothing huge but lots ok Keeper size fish and they were mean.  This wasn’t a soft bite, they ate the bait. 

Good Luck


 

[Champ188]

Who is this mysterious man and what have you done with Bill?

Winding? All fish under 8 feet? Dirty water? 

By the way, to anybody reading this post ... our time here on earth is limited, so please don't waste your allotment by slow-rolling a spinnerbait on these staging banks. Won't work. Nope. Not a chance. 

[Bill Babler]

I had a mental lapse.  
 

[Macsimus]

Thanks for posting, Bill. I literally laughed out loud as I read it this morning. I too got out yesterday thanks to my spanky new reman tranny. I was somewhat at the same end of the lake, from Big M to Owl Creek. It's still early March, right? Yes, and of course that means late winter locations like main-river bluffs, bluff ends, deep trees, possible staging areas, etc, etc. Right? I hit numerous locations of that nature without a sniff. I scraped together 3 barely scoreable Spots on the Ned on a channel swing bank inside a creek dead-sticking it for way longer than I thought I should have to. My conclusion at the end of the day? Yep, they're still deep and northern natural lake guy is still struggling to find and catch them. No problem, it was a nice afternoon and everything worked on the boat even after a long winter in the garage exposed to gremlins. So...I sit down this morning, coffee in hand, and find your report. Whut?? Gravel banks? Less than 8'? Cranks? My hat's off to you. That wasn't even a spec on my radar. Even after 9 years, this lake continues to utterly baffle and bewilder me.    

[Champ188]

35 minutes ago, Macsimus said:

I too got out yesterday thanks to my spanky new reman tranny.

Wait, you spanked a tranny? I'm mortally offended. I thought you Yanks were WOKE! What the heck? You can expect to be scheduled for LGBTQ sensitivity training in the very near future.  

[Donna G]

2 hours ago, Bill Babler said:

I had a mental lapse.  
 

That's your story, Mr. Bill.  Stick to it.  Don't let those reel-deep boys give you crap.  😁

[Bill Babler]

I caught my Ned fish in Viney 15ft.  Last week son Steven and I caught a bunch on the steeper stuff from Cedar Creek to Owl Creek on Chunk and some in flatter gravel on points    
jig and Ned  

Yesterday the fish were not in the solid mud, but just were you had a couple of feet of visibility. I fished that mud hard up around the Kings to San Succi and just lucked into a couple of dinks. 

Always amazes me how that muddy water out of the Kings migrates up stream a mile or two. 

I also fished some transition with the chunk and caught a few right where it started to clear. 

Here is the deal. Again last week prior to the mud Steven and I caught a few on a jig, pretty shallow ( under 15’ on gravel points)  These locations yesterday had color and wind on them. First point I tried with the boat in 20’ I threw across the top, bait landing in  probably 5’ of water. 2 cranks and it just flat stopped. 

Nice 16” K. Preceded to catch a limit of really quality K’s the next 2 dozen casts on that point.  Wow! 

Didn’t need the son’s Chemical Engineering Degree to start fishing every flat point I could find in that water color zone.  Trouble is there are only 4 or 5 more in that area, caught at least one on all of them. 

Just turned it into a milk run and I think I had about 30 fish with 1/2 keeps. 3# LM was the best of the day but some really thumper K’s

I believe below the Kings on those big flat points on the left going down stream to Campbell Point you could have done the same. Water color was the key, strained not solid mud. 

I cranked but a Hard Head or Biffle Bug would be a Killer. 

Good Luck









 

[Macsimus]

Lol, Champ!!

Yeah, including "spank" and "tranny" in the same sentence probably wasn't the best choice. 😁 The vast majority of we Minnesotans are not woke but of course that doesn't make what passes for "news" these days. Since the mid-terms, for the first time in 49 years I am actually embarrassed to be known as a resident of that state. Oops, that got serious in a hurry. Sorry. Back to fishing and for the record, retired guys are pretty much untrainable! 😁

[Bill Babler]

Is it even possible to be politically correct if your over 50?😎😎😜😜

[Smithvillesteve]

That RK brings back fond memories of my Ol fishing buddy Keith Blais. He won the OA tournament about 3 times. He was a RK throwing machine. I miss that guy!!!!