Sauger: Super Sunday/Black Monday
Checked the board early this morning before heading out to Newburgh Dam on the Ohio for some Sauger fishing. "Gar's" post on his fishing success this Sunday at Cannelton got me pumped!! Picked up my bucket of minnows, box of jigs, etc. and got to the river around 6:45 am and fished until 4:15 pm. Decided not to take the boat (may have been a mistake, as I could have fished deeper water). Fished from the shore along the wing dam. Well to make a long story short, I caught my limit of 10 sauger, problem was there were a box of "cigars". All caught on medium shiners. Cast my blade bait (silver buddy) with no hits and finally lost it to a hang up. Bottom line, I just could not find the big girls. Others guys on the bank seemed to be having the same problem, whether fishing shiners or casting jigs, the majority of the fish caught were "cigars". Out of ~ 15 fishermen on the bank, maybe 2 or 3 had a couple/three keepers over 12 inches. Boaters fishing the same general area including the "sand bar" across from the wing dam did not appear to be doing any better. Water clarity was pretty good for the Ohio (~ 1-2 foot) and water temperature was reported to be 36 degrees.
"Wags", from your post, looks like we were playing with the same deck! Well, I guess that is fishing! (But I'm taking the boat next time!) Hope some of you did better today....but there is always tomorrow...Yep, I'll be checking the weather and heading out again.
Good Fishing to all,
Gary
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