Melton Hill 8/3/06

[jon the fisherman]

I went to Melton Hill last night about 8:30. Put in at the dam and went up to the reactor bend. Fished with spinnerbaits and TR worms and caught the fire out of the 12-14" bass. I lost count by midnight and that was at least 20. They bit all night, so I stayed out all night. At daylight the white bass started pushing shad onto three points on the main lake. Caught about twenty white bass on a clear spook jr. Left at 9:30 when it was already getting hot. The pic is the biggest bass and was 16 ".

 

[drumking]

What a night, Jon! It's just hard to quit when they are feeding like that. I have never fished Melton Hill, but I hear that it has lots of Stripers there. Have you ever fished for them up there?emoGeezer

 

[jon the fisherman]

Drumking, I used to fish for them all the time at Bull Run steam plant, but I have not in years. I know they are still there because I saw some this morning that looked to be at least 30 lbs. I could not get them to bite the spook, but the little ones would.

 

[drumking]

jon the fisherman - 8/3/2006 10:53 AM

Drumking, I used to fish for them all the time at Bull Run steam plant, but I have not in years. I know they are still there because I saw some this morning that looked to be at least 30 lbs. I could not get them to bite the spook, but the little ones would.

Man, I want to catch one of those things bad, but I am going to be so busy the next 2 months that I won't get a chance to get up there. I'll be free to fish all the time at the end of October.emoGeezer

 

[rsimms]

I'm more interested in those Melton Hill muskies. I've been trying to find someone to take me muskie fishing for a year or two, without success.

 

[J-Dub]

Sounds like a fun night on the Hill. Haven't fished it much in years but I have a small club tourney there during the day in September so I'm sure it'll be tough. I remember quite a few years ago it had grass in it and the fishing seemed to be better then. Maybe that's just me though.

 

[Davo]

Oh the days to be young and single so I could fish all night...........wait a minute, JTF you aren't young or single, what are you doing.

You must be doing what I do. Crawl into bed and say fishing or sex, she'll just tell me to be careful out there.

 

[Bprice]

Hahaha!!! Good one Davo!

 

[jon the fisherman]

Davo - 8/3/2006 2:57 PM

Oh the days to be young and single so I could fish all night...........wait a minute, JTF you aren't young or single, what are you doing.

You must be doing what I do. Crawl into bed and say fishing or sex, she'll just tell me to be careful out there.

emoUpsmile too funny Davo, but also too trueemoDoh

 

[Fat Albert]

Davo, now that's funny..... you must have been married over 10 for her to have that reply.....LOLemoGeezer emoGeezer

 

[fisherpal2k]

Good report JTF. I have fished up there a couple of times but only from the bank. It's an interesting lake to say the least. Rsimms, I have seen a couple of really nice musky from up there too. I think it would be a good place to go in the fall. thats when I have been there anyway.emoThumbsup

 

[jon the fisherman]

Richard, the musky hit real good around the steam plant in the fall, winter, and spring. I would be more than happy to go up there with you one day, but I am not a guideemoLaugh so if we don't catch a musky, don't hold that against me.

 

[rsimms]

jon the fisherman - 8/3/2006 8:10 PM
Richard, the musky hit real good around the steam plant in the fall, winter, and spring. I would be more than happy to go up there with you one day, but I am not a guideemoLaugh so if we don't catch a musky, don't hold that against me.

Oh man... I'm doing a cut & paste & save. I'm going to take you up on that. I just want to see the water & the technique. What do they call Muskie... "the fish of a thousand casts!"

 

[fishinvol]

Dale Hollow has Muskies too,but I think they bite more in the dead of winter than any other time. I would love to catch one othose big ol fish!!

 

[webfoot]

During the summer the muskie are way up the clinch in the cold water. I have never landed one but have hook a couple while trout fishing. Actually while in college me and a roomate were just below peach orchard when he hooked into a nice 14" trout on a large rapala. That fish ripped about 40 yards of line off really quick and then jumped. My friend fought it and got it closer to the boat and it took off again, peeling drag like no other. Finally he got the fish to the boat a hauled it over, when I looked down in the water there was a large muskie that had been trying to eat his trout. I quickly threw it back in the water as my friend yelled "What the @$@%% are you doing?" Then he watched as the muskie spooked and realized what had been happening. When we got the trout back in the boat it had been scaled from that big dude. From then on we fished that section of the river with large trout colored redfins. We never had any luck with them though.

 

[jon the fisherman]

the big striper go up there also during the dog days. I have seen some huge stripe feeding on trout up there when they generate. I would say there are quite a few between the HWY 61 bridge and the steam plant, but I have seen them as far as Clark center aka Carbide Park. I was fishing up there one day in June a couple years ago and the TWRA shock boat was out. We talked to them for a while and went fishing away from them, well thity minutes later they came up to us again. They had shocked a 44" muskie out of one of the trees at the entrance to Carbide. I always look at it different now.

 

[fisherpal2k]

Richard I think its a fish of 10,000 casts, but not sure. At least I know I have thrown that many and haven't got one in yet!..emoLaugh My dad caught one a few years ago up at Hiwassee lake in NC. He caught it in a jiggin spoon while walleye fishing. Now he rubs it in when I mention it to him. It was a nice fish.emoThumbsup