Bassin warm up/ get together Saturday 21st

[ikeslayer]

I am heading down to do our annual spring bass fishing warm up on the river. We usually fish pool 4 but the last 2 years there has been a tourney going on so in order to avoid this i think we will be fishing pool 5 and putting in at West newton. i would love to see a bunch of you there. Not sure when we are going to start or how long we will fish but we will be going. This is kind of a warm up for everything (boats, trailers, trucks, other gear) So hopefully we get there in one piece. Maybe if we have enough guys we will do a biggest bass contest or something informal. Would love to see some of you there. ike

[Daze Off]

Ikes - love to join you but that is a bit of a haul for me from the NW metro. I usually get my warm-up on Pool 2 which is much closer to home.

Good luck!

Daze Off

[EBass]

Ike - the tourney is on Pools 4,5,and 5a. So you'll be right in the middle of them. I went last week and there were a lot pre-fishing.

[Central Bassman]

How is the fishing on the river so far?? Let me know guys drop me an email.

[ikeslayer]

ebass the only one i see on classic bass is for pool 4 and that is the fishers of men tourney so i went to their site and it only talks about pool four. Do you know something i don't know. let me know

ike

[EBass]

Ike, I read it on some other fishing site. I thought it was the Kfan tourney this weekend and the fishers of men the next. But both used 4,5,5a - I don't know forsure, but since it's a tourney weekend I'll stay close to home. Maybe go for cats or pool2 for sheepies (I can't catch a walleye if my life depended on it)

[Deitz Dittrich]

at least you will be fishing... and at least I will be talking fishing!... I get to be at Cabelas both day this weekend.

[ikeslayer]

Well it definitely was a warm up. We had a good time even though we blanked on mumbers. We fished from about 7-2 and didn't catch anything. We fished all over pool 5 and enjoyed the nice weather and how good it felt to cast again. We learned after about an hour that the battery we had on the trolling motor didn't make the winter so well. and at about noon the t-motor was usless. it is pretty tough to fish current and wind with no motor. Any way we got a good sunburn and my first set of racoon eyes for the year. many more to come. Didn't see anyone really rippening them in. marked lots of fish were i expected to find them just couldn't get them to bite. Water temps were any where from 48-51 depending on where you were. Beautiful down there though and for your waterfowlers and turkey hunters birds are in full plumage and look great. ike