Game on....

[ctom]

....The weather for tomorrow sounds like rain, wind and perhaps some snow while looking at temps in the 30"s for the morning. Perfect for dock hopping. I have every intention of being there bright and early. The deep part of a major low pressure is due to descend on us here in SE Minnesota dropping temps and delivering ugly weather and I think that morning fishing will land on the low side before it starts to crawl into the trailing hi pressure so fishing should be just shy of outstanding. How do they say...."its a perfect storm".

I've been shooting a mess of glow baits including a bunch in the 1.75" small fry bait. Mostly I have shot tail glow colors in the small fry, not wanting to overwhelm the bait's actual size.

We're sunny and 40 degrees here right now but later today this nice day is due to go to pot. It isn't often in the fall when I plan a morning on the water and then have the weather work on my behalf. I'm pumped.

[MO QWACK]

You might as well be there early because you know your not going to get much sleep. Mmm and a thermos of coffee I wanna go I wanna go

[ctom]

What a gale. lol

A friend and I headed out at 6 this morning to fish the docks on Lake Pepin. While dressing for the wind we kept in mind that the forecast has been yacking rain and snow or both mixed for about a week. We didn't don the rain gear since its just a short walk back for it had the need arise. It didn't. In fact, if it weren't for the 40 mph blow [or near to it] we would have been too warm at the 38 degrees we started at.

The fish? It was, as the topic title says, game on. We got a mixed bag including crappies, sunfish, perch and walleye. We got some sumo crappies today that laid out to about 14 inches. One 3 pound waldo came home for dinner tonight. The sunfish size was down a bit from a week ago but this frontal fishing always seems to mess with the larger fish in that category. An 11 inch perch made its appearance too.

Purple with a chartreuse tail. Period. It didn't matter what the bait was as long as it was this color combination. Period. 1.75" small frys did damage as did a couple other baits of the same length. The purple portion of this color is 4 drops of X2 midnight blue with 4 drops of X2 purple and a drop of X2 red in a 4 ounce batch along with .015 red and purple glitter and just a snitch of purple hi lite. The tails were shot first using 5 drops of X2 chartreuse and 2 drops of X2 green chartreuse and one drop of regular green. The fish have been leaning towards liking a chartreuse tail section that has a green over-tone to it. Gotta feed'em what they want.

Anyway, it was a wild time with the wind, but the fish and the baits made a nice day out of it. It was nice to stay dry too.