Fished the St Croix for a full day float last Friday and short float Saturday. The flows had come down from the record highs after the Memorial Day and the fishing was great.
Friday I had Matt and Mitch in the boat - who were both in the casting zone. We hit a stretch above 70 in Grantsburg and caught fish entirely on top-water. Mitch casted a Skitter-Prop and Matt a Hula-Popper. Matt took the oars I had great success on boogle-bugs and JJ-Specials.
We caught at least 50 and even caught them shortly after a passing thunderstorm.
Mitch caught the biggest fish of the day - right around 17 inches - right after the storm. There was nothing bigger than that but a lot in the 16-17 inch range. The real excitement when both Matt and Mitch hooked muskies on their top water lures. Matt's fish hit and swam right at the boat - we both got a look and he was gone. Mitch's took the Skitter-Prop right in front of us with an aggressive take. He got good hooks into him and he jumped straight out of the water. We estimated him at 45 inches - and after a pretty good battle with the landing net ready he bit through (or the knot slipped - it's still not fully know).
Anyway the following day I hit the St Croix with Donny up by Cty Road T. The flows were at 1400 (in Danbury) which is about as low as it can be for me to float there. Donny casted great as well and was rewarded with a dozen SMBs in about 2 hours. We also finally got some pike. I hadn't seen many all year and was getting a little concerned. My thought is they really hide in the grass in the those high water situations.
I have some good video to put together - but next week I have off up at the cabin - hopefully I can get some good fishing and footage in - if Lou participates.
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