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With the river still high and more rain forecasted starting tomorrow, I weighed my options. I really wanted to get out and the river had come down to about 5 feet at POR, but was forecasted to rise to about 6 feet by tonight. I decided to take a chance and go for it. Weather was humid and foggy in the morning, then mostly cloudy and in the mid 80's. I was on the water by 6:00am. It was heavily stained to chocolate milk mostly. I ran up to my usual spot and floated down an island. I lost one fish at the head of the island on a chatterbait, but that was it. I decided to go further up to my high water spot and I at least got some bites. All bites were on a keitech swim bait on a SWM had or swim jig and a tube. Nothing really big, but enough action to keep me interested until lunch time. I also caight one decent rock bass on the tube. Bites were just a tick.
The bite dieed down after lunch and there was muddier water coming down with debris. I moved around and finally decided to run up Goose Creek. I ran to the fast water and was surprised to get some bites on the swim bait. After stealing my bait twice, I finally caught one on the swim jig. It was small, but chunky. I used the tube to catch one more about the same size. After that I ran back toward the ramp. I stopped one more time to hit a swirly spot with some less stained water and caught one more smallie.
I ended up catching 9 fish total. I did not take pictures of the smaller fish. The river will take at least another week to come down and clear. The water felt cool, but I do not have a guage.
Last edited by drxfish (May-30-18 8:00PM)
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Glad you got some....it's supposed to get to 5' tomorrow before spiking up again.
John Lipetz and I are going...after having to cancel 2-3 times!
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I went out today and nada, water is browner and lots of debris. I did not travel far though. Good luck tomorrow!
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Man check out the eyes on some of those fish, really nice bro!
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Way to go get 'em!
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drxfish wrote:
I went out today and nada, water is browner and lots of debris. I did not travel far though. Good luck tomorrow!
I almost called up yesterday until I read this - had the afternoon off
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