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<blockquote data-quote="Allen" data-source="post: 485962" data-attributes="member: 389">I have not fished the Hazelton to Fort Rice area this year.&nbsp; I've fished out of the Maclean Bottoms (Rifle Range) boat ramp, but have heard and seen pics of excellent fishing all the way up through Bismarck.&nbsp; I've been out several times this past couple of weeks and it's shaping up to be the best spring fishing on the river since I moved to the Bismarck area in 2003. The males made a mess in the boat this past weekend, but we are also still catching females full of eggs. I started out doing very well with paddle tail style PowerBait, but then where we've been fishing they just shut off on the plastics and it's been a jig with a minnow since last Thursday.&nbsp; They've also become VERY light biters on a retrieve so slow you are almost still fishing.&nbsp; Depths have been everything from 2-20 ft, I even stopped to chat with a crew fishing the 40 ft deep hole across from the Rifle Range ramp.&nbsp; Yep, they were catching as well. I know others who are still doing well on paddle tail plastics, but they are fishing elsewhere.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Allen, post: 485962, member: 389"] I have not fished the Hazelton to Fort Rice area this year. I've fished out of the Maclean Bottoms (Rifle Range) boat ramp, but have heard and seen pics of excellent fishing all the way up through Bismarck. I've been out several times this past couple of weeks and it's shaping up to be the best spring fishing on the river since I moved to the Bismarck area in 2003. The males made a mess in the boat this past weekend, but we are also still catching females full of eggs. I started out doing very well with paddle tail style PowerBait, but then where we've been fishing they just shut off on the plastics and it's been a jig with a minnow since last Thursday. They've also become VERY light biters on a retrieve so slow you are almost still fishing. Depths have been everything from 2-20 ft, I even stopped to chat with a crew fishing the 40 ft deep hole across from the Rifle Range ramp. Yep, they were catching as well. I know others who are still doing well on paddle tail plastics, but they are fishing elsewhere. [/QUOTE]

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