Yeah, yeah, the rivers have been too high.\u00a0 The Mississippi has been flowing at over 20,000, the St Croix over 10,000, even the Rum has been approaching 5,000 CFS.\u00a0 No one loves river fishing as much as me, and I will always take water that is a little too high over water a little too low. Current water levels are just not doable though–fish could still be caught-I’ve done it-but the dynamic of the fishing changes a lot and there are serious safety concerns.\u00a0 Last year it was well into July before the Miss was really fishable, this year it looks like we have about another week before the river will be at a fishable, albeit high, level.<\/p>\n

Looking forward to lots of good days in the weeks to come. Local Largemouths [and largemouth enthusiasts!] are enjoying the fact that lake levels are on the rise, and huge numbers are possible.\u00a0 A trip with two guys on Monday produced around 30 largemouth, and a trip last week with a friend saw numbers approaching 50.\u00a0 Of course there’s always a few pike in the mix, maybe a muskie, and I’ve always got an eye out for big panfish.\u00a0 On Monday we found some full sized gills [8″+] still hanging around beds.\u00a0 These provided an interesting diversion, and\u00a0I was really wishing for a fly rod in the boat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Small Tiger Muskie Mason Johnston from Shawnee, KS Yeah, yeah, the rivers have been too high.\u00a0 The Mississippi has been flowing at over 20,000, the St Croix over 10,000, even the Rum has been approaching 5,000 CFS.\u00a0 No one loves river fishing as much as me, and I will always take water that is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16,9,12,14,13,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wildsmallie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wildsmallie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wildsmallie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wildsmallie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wildsmallie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/wildsmallie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202,"href":"http:\/\/wildsmallie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wildsmallie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wildsmallie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wildsmallie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}