Had a good trip with my 6 year old son Wednesday and Thursday. While we caught great quality fish the numbers were low. Perch and bluegills were our goal and found them at the south end but few in number. Coming back up Tuesday with a friend and adding smallies to the list. Any help getting into the jumbos would be appreciated. We have 3 days to fish so we have time to adventure into the backwaters if necessary. I have a tunnel boat so backwaters shouldn’t be to much of a problem. Also a big thank you to Dan the welder from Stockholm as he did me a great favor fixing a broken winch stand on my trailer. He’s got some venison son sausage coming this trip. Will be bringing some extra for anyone pointing me in the right direction on this trip. Like I said we were in 8 feet of water at the south end of the lake. 

I spent four days with my brothers on Lake Pepin, Pool 4, Mississippi River from June 14-15. We fished the central part of the Lake from Maiden Rock to Pepin, WI. as well as the bays on the MN side near Lake City, MN. We trolled lead line with mainly chartreuse and fire tiger shad raps in 11 to 14 feet of water and caught our limits of mainly sauger with a few walleyes mixed in. We fished white bass as well one afternoon and did well chasing the gulls to the schools of white bass near the surface. Used light colored plastic twister tail type baits on light lead heads. Caught a couple of large freshwater drum in 7 - 10 lbs. range and a few 5 - 7 lb. northern pike while fishing the walleyes as well. Had a good trip and fishing was good between rain showers. Fishing has picked up well recently according to the locals.