WISCONSIN RIVER SAUK DAM TO SPRING GREEN

Sauger. ( aka sand pike 😁 )

Fished below Ferrys Bluff for a couple hours this morning. Bite was quick for the first hour with 4 fish on and 3 landed but then it quit. I tried live bait and had one fish on with a fathead minnow but that was it. Tried spinners and crank baits and ned rigs with tubes. The ned rigs with tubes brought all the fish in. And those fish crushed the ned rig. Had to do surgery on the little pike to get the hook out but it swam away fine. The little smallmouth bass inhaled the ned rig. Fishing I think would have  been better if I had been out a couple hours earlier. I didn't start casting until about 9:45 and it shut down at 11. Beautiful morning .... and then it got ridiculously hot for October 3.