Saturday, August 10, 2019

Gull/Crow Wing River Pre-Fish

16.??" Swim Jig/swimbait Jr
8:30-2:00PM Crow Wing River/Gull River
74-67℉, Cloudy some light rain turning PC, 3-5mph S

We started at the confluence of the two rivers just South of the access.  I noticed fish activity out where there was current.  Didn't get anything on the point.  But Bruce hit paydirt at the rice island (fish in the picture).  He immediately lost another good one.  We decided to not hammer on them and went and checked the slop island further down.  I had a good 90% sure it was a bass blow up on my hookless Snagproof Frog there and there was activity all the way along that thing.  I had a pike strike at me off the end of it.

We then checked a couple of inlets then headed up the Gull River to the 210 railroad bridge.  There was some activity in the 1/8th of a mile south of the bridge.  Bruce got bit off and I had a couple of blow-ups.  We didn't see any activity in the next 1/4mile or so.  We then jumped around a few places.  We had a couple of who knows what blow-ups on an algae mat and Bruce lost a small bass off of a dock and got a small possible keeper bass off of another dock.  We had enough of the Gull River at that point. We ran into Hammer who was fishing the slop Island at the confluence.  We then ran up the Crow. Briefly talked with Dennis then continued up to as far as we felt was safe.  We fished our way back running a couple of different times.  The sun came out and we were done shortly after that.

Beau took out just after we did.  Bo knows the Crow, apparently, this stretch of river is pretty much his home water. 

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