Weekend Report…

How’d you all fair this weekend? I hope you got out there… was some BEAUTIFUL weather… a bit cold, but GORGEOUS… Okay, it was REAL tough Saturday from 6 AM to about 8:30 with the fog… once that got out of here, it got better. Anyone else out in that fog? Almost scary… couldn’t see marker bouys… heck, couldn’t even see the shore!

Fished 8 on Saturday with limited success. Same story for Sunday on Pool 7. We would have been scraping by to get a limit… in fact, we couldn’t catch 8 keepers either day (Fished 6:30-11:00 each day). Plenty of shorts. Fishing seemed to pick up around 10 AM each day… with early morning was tough.

The flow seems to have increased a bit, although water levels seem to be the same, maybe slightly up on 8 and slightly down on 7, but this is only my observation.

The fish we did find were scattered with no concentration of fish, which seems to go against September fishing. Smallies are still absent from most places they traditionally would be… where oh where have the smallies gone (all chime in now…) Okay, I’m admittedly strange…

How’d you all fair? Any consistancy to your findings? Thoughts?

you are right on with your report. I was on pool 10 all weekend. Had about the same success. I did catch some 3 pounders . But they were few and far between. They were in the wood in the sloughs in current. Real unusual September. I don’t find them in the lakes yet either. Maybe in a week or two….

I went out today on pool 10 and pounded the riprap shorelines with not much luck. Got several short fish (mostly largemouth) and had a three pounder come unbuttoned on a crankbait by the boat. Fishing a K-grub produced a couple of shorts on a wingdam, everything else came on cranks. The flow is way up down here compared to last weekend, a ton on eel grass and junk going down. I hit the running sloughs and caught a little bigger and more active fish, but would have struggled to get a limit.

Same results here reel guy. Fished the lake on Saturday. Too foggy and too darned cold to run to the main river. We ended up catching two fish. One short and the other about three pounds. The boy caught both of them. Hope the fishing is better for Saturday.

After a long time away from the river, I finally got back down to pool 10 and did some fishing. After the fog finally lifted Saturday morning I got out fishing and did ok. Caught a lot of shorts, but did manage to get 5 keepers with my brother, that would’ve of weighed around 11 lb. Our two biggest were a 3 lb. largemouth and a 2.5 lb. smallie. All of our fish came off of rock with current. We were using rattle traps and crankbaits.

Spent much of Sunday on pool 10. Started on a few wing dams with limited success. Then moved to the back waters with current. We found fish all day on crankbaits, tubes, and spinner baits, but no size to any of the fish. Very long drive home thinking about what I would have done differently. With a front coming in later on Sunday, I thought we would have done better. We found fish but they were all between 1lb.-1-1/2 lbs. The only thing I can think might have made a difference was the water temperature. 65 degrees was the warmest water we found anywhere.

Which brings up a good point, Crees.

As the water temps fall now, is it important to seek out warmer bays, backwater areas, or is it not that important to fall fishing? Temp is always an ingredient, but will the larger fish migrate to warmer areas, or will they sink to lower, more steady temperature water columns.

The river is unique, in that the backwaters often cool faster than the channel… BUT, in October, backwater fishing (for me) takes the cake. Septemeber fishing has traditionally been confusing, but once figured out, great. Let’s just say I am trying to figure it out! Help!?

I didn’t get a chance to get out this weekend at all. But hopefully will be able to get out this week sometime. Good to see the reports…not good to see that the big ones are nowhere to be found!

I found the fishing on pool eight to be alright. I was able to find a few fish located on wingdams. These were relating to baitfish of coarse. There were many small ones in with these as well. Nothing to great though. I think the biggest we got was about 2 1/2 lbs. We did have some decent numbers considering the running we did looking for bigger fish (none of those to be found by me )

Bassman

I got out on pool 6 for just a bit on sunday. Spent time in backwaters with some lillys. TONS of 2″ shad surfacing everywhere, sounded like rain. But outside of some cookie cutter shorts found the going tough. The ones we caught were on a rattletrap.

Things were about the same on pools 12 & 13. Lots of bass caught this weekend but the keepers were few and far between. Caught most of them on white spinnerbaits on current breaks. Tried some wingdam fishing and caught a couple of small bass and my first walleye it weighed 3.75lbs and hit a storm mag wort.

I guess it is old hat for the you yankees but it was a thrill for this relocated Kentucky boy. Going to have him for dinner tonight.

If you are interested here is our tournament results from this weekend on pool 13.

ABA Dist. 73 Sept 20-21 results