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I decided to try out some new water today so I headed up north about 15 miles to a place I've been wanting to try out once the water levels lowered and slowed down. I found a place to put in but I was very disappointed to see a bunch of litter, half a container of chicken livers and a catfish head next to a fire pit. The river still looked promising so I paddled upstream through a gentle pool about half a mile before I found a riffle and some faster water.
This place was gorgeous, I could occasionally hear someone on the bike path but other than that no signs of anyone else. In fact I had to search around a little bit just to find one bottle that had obviously been under water for a long time. None of the liveries must go through this segment of the river as there were many trees down some blocking the river.
I picked up some new Sculpins yesterday after work, had a few nibbles on one but I didn't catch anything until I tied on the green pumpkin tube. I had some tugs, caught a couple dinks then landed a hard fighting 12 inch smallie. There was a lot of trees in the water, I was losing a lot of tubes. I probably would have caught a few more but I was spending a lot of time trying to get unsnagged and re-tying lures. On the way back downstream I was throwing a chartreuse/orange rebel craw in the pool and caught the best one of the day, a jumping 16 incher. As it was coming out of the water I could see a second fish about the same size trying to take the bait from it. For a second I thought I had a double. The big one didn't stick around for a photo, I keep my phone in a drybox on the yak and it took too long to get it out with one hand trying to hold the fish with the other and it flopped away.
This place was gorgeous, I could occasionally hear someone on the bike path but other than that no signs of anyone else. In fact I had to search around a little bit just to find one bottle that had obviously been under water for a long time. None of the liveries must go through this segment of the river as there were many trees down some blocking the river.
I picked up some new Sculpins yesterday after work, had a few nibbles on one but I didn't catch anything until I tied on the green pumpkin tube. I had some tugs, caught a couple dinks then landed a hard fighting 12 inch smallie. There was a lot of trees in the water, I was losing a lot of tubes. I probably would have caught a few more but I was spending a lot of time trying to get unsnagged and re-tying lures. On the way back downstream I was throwing a chartreuse/orange rebel craw in the pool and caught the best one of the day, a jumping 16 incher. As it was coming out of the water I could see a second fish about the same size trying to take the bait from it. For a second I thought I had a double. The big one didn't stick around for a photo, I keep my phone in a drybox on the yak and it took too long to get it out with one hand trying to hold the fish with the other and it flopped away.
