So my father-in-law and I are planning our first fishing trip of the year (thank God its finally here!!!) Because Lake Pepin is further south and the ice is mostly out and allows for catch and release of bass, we will be going there on Monday 4-21. Ive only been fishing for a couple years and have mainly fished just largemouth. I can only assume that Pepin is a smallmouth fishery as its a rocky river Lake, but I don't know much about how to target/pattern them. Anybody be willing to share some tactics or spots specific to Pepin or smallmouths? It would be very much appreciated. It's been about 60 degrees over the weekend with a bit of rain. I'm hoping that the semi warm streak will start moving em up a bit, but it's probably a bit too early for that. Anyways, anything would help. Thanks Guys!

Are you fishing the Wi side or the MN side?

So my father-in-law and I are planning our first fishing trip of the year (thank God its finally here!!!) Because Lake Pepin is further south and the ice is mostly out and allows for catch and release of bass, we will be going there on Monday 4-21. Ive only been fishing for a couple years and have mainly fished just largemouth. I can only assume that Pepin is a smallmouth fishery as its a rocky river Lake, but I don't know much about how to target/pattern them. Anybody be willing to share some tactics or spots specific to Pepin or smallmouths? It would be very much appreciated. It's been about 60 degrees over the weekend with a bit of rain. I'm hoping that the semi warm streak will start moving em up a bit, but it's probably a bit too early for that. Anyways, anything would help. Thanks Guys!

If you can find some shallow flats, a suspending jerkbait should produce well. As for the rocky part, you can't go wrong fishing tubes.