Rock River pontoon trip planned - report will come later

Weather permitting (forecast looks great), I'm hoping to float a portion of the Rock River near Watertown on the weekend of June 11-12. Will be casting for northerns and drifting live bait to see what bites. Will report back later.

Good luck sir we look forward to your reports.

Sweet cant wait...looks fishy! pulled up a map of it!

It's satisfying when scouting for new areas to fish and you actually catch a fish. I launched downriver from where I wanted to explore and rowed upstream for two hours. Probably covered about a mile of river. Rowing against the current and the wind meant I moved at about a granny's walk. Once I reached a railroad bridge, I decided to drift back while casting Little Cleo's for northerns. I lost two new lures to snags before I wised up about casting into problem areas. When I reached three new bridges just a couple hundred yards from my put-in/take-out spot, I anchored upstream of the bridge pilings and threw lures into likely spots - near the pilings. At the last piling, a fish flashed onto the lure just as it hit the water about six inches from the downstream side of the piling. Fish on! and crappie in net a few fighting seconds later. After a quick photo and release, I decided to end my half-day trip on that good note. The next time I try this drift, I'll be rigged for panfish and northerns.

Launch spot at Cappie's Landing:


A view of the new bridges from the landing:


A successful scouting trip. Now I know how to plan for the next outing:

Cool thanks for the report looks like you had a good on the water with a bonus a Crappie. Well done and thanks for sharing.

Looks like a great scouting trip.
Thanks for sharing

So you learned your lesson about casting into those 'problem areas'? I wish I could do that. Seems like I can't resist them. Catching fish in those areas only compounds my problem area problem!

Nice report. It will be interesting to see a follow up report on a second trip.

I've got some scouting planned for the next three months myself.

Nice report! Keep 'em coming, I love the fish porn.

bigfish

GLASS!!! that water wow....very cool thanks for reporting back and WTG on that crappie!!

bigfish wrote:So you learned your lesson about casting into those 'problem areas'? I wish I could do that. Seems like I can't resist them. Catching fish in those areas only compounds my problem area problem!

Nice report. It will be interesting to see a follow up report on a second trip.

I've got some scouting planned for the next three months myself.

Nice report! Keep 'em coming, I love the fish porn.

bigfish

The old saying if your not losing gear your not casting close enough, not too bad if it's only a soft plastic and jighead here and there but it gets expensive quickly if you start losing quality crankbaits