Below Chick. Dam 5-26-06

[flip1up]

Started fishing about 10:30 a.m. with artificials, only caught a few spots and 1 small Smallmouth. They started pushing water about 12 or 1, I got some yellowtails, made a few drifts but didnt get bit. I went down river a mile or two, fished in the current around the barge tie offs and started catching good Smallies. I had 4 keepers between 18 and 20 inches, 2 between 17 and 17 3/4, about 5-6 more that were 13-16 inches and 3-4 decent Spots. All these fish were schooled in about a 20-30 yard stretch. Best day for Smallmouth that I have had there yet. No largemouth. All fish were released.

 

[JerDog]

Hey flip, how deep was the water you were in? Was it in the 20ish feet area? I marked lots of fish in that area a couple of weeks ago with none to cooperate.

 

[fisherpal2k]

Good job Flip. Was the yellowtails all that the smallies would hit? Fished down there during the winter but have never tried it during the summer.

 

[flip1up]

After I got the bait and the current was rolling pretty good, I didnt try anything else. Jerdog this school was in 15-17 foot of water. I'm sure they were there because of the current, it was fairly strong.

 

[flip1up]

Went back today ( Sunday), there was suppose to be 2 generators running all day, according to the schedule. There was 1 running, and it wasnt putting out much. Water was way down, I only caught 1 decent size fish, a 16" largemouth that hit a c-rigged centipede, char./pepper, and 5-6 small Spots. With the water so far down I could see the big rocks that I hit before. They are about 30-40 feet straight out from the end of the wall at the lock. Some of them were less than 2 foot under the surface with the water this low, you dont want to run across there with the big motor, I destroyed a prop right there back in the winter.