shore fishing?

[bgreen82]

whats the earliest a guy can start planning to get out and toss from shore into the river. i got the itch bad, and it's times like these when i cant fish that i buy stuff. and after the wedding and new house, i cant afford it as much anymore as i used to and its driving me nuts. i gotta get out.

[Ralph Wiggum]

As soon as you can find open water. We did quite well in early to mid March last year (after a few warm days) for the channel cats on the Mississippi. Start with small baits and a lighter rod than you normally would--they aren't nearly as agressive as when the water gets warm.

[Flaco651]

I will probably start next month on the Sippi in Mpls. Maybe sooner depending on the weather. There was still some snow on the ground last year when I started targeting Channels.

[bgreen82]

so the weather channel says it is supposed to be 40's this weekend and into the 50's mon. and tues. will next weekend be looking possible after temps like that or what. i would think the majority of snow will be gone. all except the 7 foot high pile on the side of my driveway that the association left that is.

[River Runner Z]

there's more snow on the ground this year than there was last, but me and flatco where out on the side of the river on march 1 last year but if you don't mind snow you can go now there are few article claiming that the water haveing to 50 plus is just a myth but who know's i am going to be out soon

[Flaco651]

The Channels are biting pretty good already in MPLS. I saw quite a few pulled out this weekend.

[Grant]

I'll be out tomorrow afternoon- location TBD but if anyone's up for meeting email me gpbakken at gmail dot you know what.

[harvey lee]

Next week I plan on going somewhere for some channels.

[rushing]

Good luck and be careful, the river isn't looking too forgiving right now

[hanson]

No doubt Rob. We got a long summer ahead of us. No use "rushing" into it. Lots of solid, fish catching months yet to come.

Ice isn't even off the lakes yet and Tom has the itch. You'll probably have to come up to the cities to get in some channel cattin'. There is a good bite going up here right now although I've been soooo busy, I haven't taken advantage of it.

[bgreen82]

whats a guy got to do and what kind of place does a guy have to go to to get in on this good metro bite you talk about?

[hanson]

Did I say something about a bite?

[harvey lee]

Chris,let me know when you have a little time off that thing you call work and we will see if the kitties want to play.

[DTro]

Quote:

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Did I say something about a bite?

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I won't say exactly where, but if you put on your Sherlock Holmes suit, everything you need to know is available in the archives here or somewhere around this thing we call the World Wide Web.