04-21-2019, 12:38 PM
Good report.
My sons and I went there on Wednesday the 17th and it was tough fishing, but we did manage to catch around a dozen smallies and a couple of decent trout. The lake looked like chocolate milk and the river wasn't much better. We brought home 8 smallies between 11-14" for dinner and tossed the others and also kept a 14" rainbow and a 16" brown to eat as well.
The bass were caught on 1/16 and 1/8 ounce jig heads with black shad gulp minnows tipped with worm occasionally and it had to be fished SLOW. It was almost impossible to keep from snagging because of how slow we had to fish it, so we eventually went to using slip bobbers and started catching fish, but it was a tough start. We were there from 12:30 until 4:00. It was a beautiful day though and the fishing will get better as the water clears up.
Mike
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My sons and I went there on Wednesday the 17th and it was tough fishing, but we did manage to catch around a dozen smallies and a couple of decent trout. The lake looked like chocolate milk and the river wasn't much better. We brought home 8 smallies between 11-14" for dinner and tossed the others and also kept a 14" rainbow and a 16" brown to eat as well.
The bass were caught on 1/16 and 1/8 ounce jig heads with black shad gulp minnows tipped with worm occasionally and it had to be fished SLOW. It was almost impossible to keep from snagging because of how slow we had to fish it, so we eventually went to using slip bobbers and started catching fish, but it was a tough start. We were there from 12:30 until 4:00. It was a beautiful day though and the fishing will get better as the water clears up.
Mike
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