Blakeney and Appleton

Post by **bobfly** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 9:00 pm

Fished Appleton on Sunday and got in a few casts at Blakeney (Mississippi River) on Monday PM and very little action. Right up until the last week (when I was at Stratford), it has been very good. I'll have to take Todd's advice and switch to minnow immitations and get down deeper, mind you at Appleton you can't get very deep or you are in the weeds.

bobfly

Post by **Todd B.** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 9:38 pm

Bob,

I think the cold weather has knocked the SM down somewhat. Assuming the weather is nice this weekend like they are forecasting I think the SM bite will be pretty good. The walleye bite is definitely starting to pick up down at the tailouts as well. I managed to fish the back tailout the other weekend and had a blast...very nice water, but it's quite the wade/scamble to get to.

Cheers,

Post by **bobfly** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 9:02 pm

Todd,
I guess you are walking across the stream at the tailout and wading in there. Right at the bottom on the Pakenham side it is quite deep. I made a few casts there a week ago but no hits. Today after I quit work at 5PM I got a nice 2# at the bridge on a weighted P-quad.

bobfly

Post by **Todd B.** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 10:23 pm

Bob,

Actually the one I was talking about is reached by wading across at the top of the rapids, then down the back channel. There are actually 4 separate channels. The main flow separates into two tailouts at the north end (reached via the path). The other two flow east. The one closest to the bridge flows down into a pond which connects at the bottom of the other (east) channel, which then flows north into another tailout that is isolated from the two at the bottom of the path.