Slow day at Newbugh Dam

My Bud and I were on the river early and fished for sauger from ~6:30 -11:30. Bite was very slow, s-l-o-w, s--l--o--w. We left with 3 keepers each, ranging in size from 14-16 inches. Others I spoke with on the river reported the same experience. All of us were catching those little cigar fish. I believer we would have had a box full. Didn"t seem to mater if you were fishing jigs, minows or spoon. Same results.

I don't understand. Weather was everthing I would have ordred; cloudy skies, very little wind and good current in the river???

Any thoughts, or does this come down to fishing-not catching?

Better luck to all.

Gary

Hey Gary you should have known the sauger fishing would be slow today.

It's a simple logarithm, take the inverse of the water temperature squared, divided by the coefficient of the change in barometric pressure over the last 24 hours, adjusted for the H20 flow in cfm, times the saturation point of the ambient air (humidity), over the water clarity, times pie, plus (of course) lunar phase correction.

Or my simplified equation. (1) Me on the river = one day too late or one day too early. (2) The day that my wife needs me to do something around the house = day everyone else is catching fish!

LOL-you'll get 'em Gary