09-26-2009, 11:01 AM
Thanks for the advice. I decided to go out to the dam today just to check things out. I arrived about an hour before sunset and ended up fishing just upstream from the boat launch on the downstream side of the dam. I casted out roughly where the slack water from the boat launch area meets the current.
Got three channels, busted off a nice one due to a boneheaded move with the drag. One was just a little fella so I threw him back. Other two I'd guess are probably around 4-5 pounds so I kept them for a fish fry. All of them hit within an hour or two after the sun set. After that, nada. I think it got too cold.
Bites were split evenly between chicken livers and pieces of a pikeminnow I caught last time and was using for cut bait. Let me tell ya... If you hook it through the skin, that fish chunk is NEVER coming off the hook.
Not bad for my first time there. Definitely a shorter drive from Boise than CJ or Brownlee. If anyone has any tips, I'd appreciate it.
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Got three channels, busted off a nice one due to a boneheaded move with the drag. One was just a little fella so I threw him back. Other two I'd guess are probably around 4-5 pounds so I kept them for a fish fry. All of them hit within an hour or two after the sun set. After that, nada. I think it got too cold.
Bites were split evenly between chicken livers and pieces of a pikeminnow I caught last time and was using for cut bait. Let me tell ya... If you hook it through the skin, that fish chunk is NEVER coming off the hook.
Not bad for my first time there. Definitely a shorter drive from Boise than CJ or Brownlee. If anyone has any tips, I'd appreciate it.
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