Last weekend was an adventure to say the least as my dad and I went up to Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin to do a little bass fishing. We took off from Davenport at 8am where it was a comfortable 60 degrees with a slight breeze out of the north. As we headed up north the conditions were what you would consider perfect for this time a year. It was an overcast day with the water temperature around 58 degrees. This is prime water conditions for a great bass bite. What we didn’t notice until we stepped out of the truck to put the boat in the water that things were a little different here as they were in Davenport. We were welcomed with a 20 mph breeze out the north and the air temperature was about 50. I don’t care how tough you are, IT WAS COLD!
We both figured our best bet was to fish the back waters and try and at least get out of the wind since the current was really moving down the river. We checked out the map and found a couple of chutes to run through. As we started fishing the day we both tried to put the puzzle together to find the pattern for the day. I started with a crank bait, while my dad stuck with a bright yellow spinner bait. It wasn’t long before my dad threw his bait up a little creek channel and slowly retrieved it back to the boat. He cranked the bait 5 or 6 times before a bass came out of nowhere and crushed it. He quickly reeled it in and we had our first piece in our puzzle. That fish was in no water at all. We tried to go through the area to get to the next piece of back water and there was literally no water there, it was all mud. We continued on up and down the backwaters looking for similar structure. I kept my crank bait on and my dad kept catching fish. We had figured out that the bass wanted a spinner bait and that was it, so rather than be stubborn about the whole deal I switched to a spinner bait and added a 3 inch mister twister grub as a trailer. I threw my spinner bait into this tree with my second cast and caught a nice 2 pounder. It was the first bass of the season and I was really excited to finally get that monkey off my back. We continued the rest of the day catching fish here and there, just enough to stay interested.
I will spare everyone with the highlights from Sunday, because there weren’t any. It was cold, and we had some issues with finding places to fish that were fitting our pattern from the day before. We started heading home around 11 since it was mother’s day. Everyone might be upset that we went fishing on mother’s day weekend, but trust me my mom deserves a break from everyone to read and do what she wants. We also took a picture of how close the houses were there, you have to really like your neighbor to be a part of that madness.
On a lighter note Conrad is about finished with his boat this weekend. The carpet was installed and the seating is ready to be put in sometime this week. The maiden voyage will be this weekend hopefully. There will be plenty of pictures including anything that we catch. Thanks to Conrad for letting me help out, it was a blast to come up with an idea or two.
Today I went fishing after school down on the river. I caught 2 smallmouth bass, both around a pound and a half on my ultra light rod. They are starting to move a little bit around the shallows and the bite should be on in the next couple of days.
I added a new feature to the blog this week. On the right hand side I have added the “Fish of the Week”. Email me your pictures and I will try to get everyone up there that I deem to have picture worthy fish. The email again is unijudkins@hotmail.com
On a serious note I would like to thank my mom for everything she does for me. She is a very giving and patient person to deal with me. I am pretty sure she might be the only one that reads this but thanks again mom.
Hope everyone gets a chance to head out and enjoy the great weather.
Tight lines,
Pat
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