Mississippi River Pools 4 & 5 – Practice Day – July 29th, 2007 | Rich Lindgren's Bass Fishing & Bassin' Blog

Well Tim & I started out at about 5:45am, it was a beautiful quiet misty morning in Wabasha for some bass fishing. We started off fishing some backwater around Wabasha and caught some solid fish on Frogs and buzz toads. Tim also caught a couple dandy Dog Fish (bowfins). Targeting mainly duck weed & slop. We drove around and looked at some other stuff, then headed south for Pool 5.

We hit one small wing dam, I caught a 13″ smallie on a Pop-R, and we also got a few small largies on other baits. The next point, I made one cast and caught a nice largemouth on my popper and had a bigger on following it, then Tim launched his Sammy into the trees and we scared the fish getting it We worked a slop pocket in from that, caught a couple bass and large sized northern. We then hit the point on the way back out and caught sever bass on swim jigs & soft plastics. I also showed Tim the power of the Mojo Rig……

We then fished a cut with rocks on the points, largemouth were stacked on both sides, but not many of them were keepers. Caught most of these fish on tubes and a 3/8oz Watermelon/Brown Tru-Tungsten jig that I had added some extra red strands to the skirt and trimmed the skirt to give it a more finesse look. You can see that in the picture, along with the Gambler B.B. Cricket used for a trailer. The smaller profile gives me a little more confidence when fishing around smallies in the river

The next area we hit was a pad area way in the back of a backwater lake, we did not get many bites but we caught some really nice quality on frogs & toads. We drove around a bit, then I had to get home. It was a great day, learned a bunch. Thanks Tim, never seen anyone catch 3 nice doggies on topwater like that in one short day