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With the nice weather finally here, I decided to brave the slightly high and stained water to catch some Smallies. I stopped in Goose Creek for a bit, but nothing biting there. I proceeded to my high water spot and it was a good move. I lost 2 hard hitting smallies right off the bat. They liked the swim bait on George's SWM jig. I got the third one, a feisty 14 incher.
Followed that one up with nice 15"er with red eyes.
I lost one more before that spot dried up, so off to spot 2. Turkeys were calling on the island I fished next to, which was pretty cool.
I moved down a bit and settled in to spot 2. Fish did not bite right away. I caught this 17"er the was blind in one eye just slowly swimming the bait back.
I caught a smaller one, about 13", then ate lunch.
After lunch I tried a rebel deep diver, banging it off the rocks. Second cast, in an eddy, I started to reel and this one slammed it and fought hard in the current.
Then I tried a jig Jezur67 from Riversmallies traded me. About my second or third cast, I caught another 13"er that was fat from eating craws.
The bites turned off and I moved to spot 3. It was a smaller eddy with some wood in it toward the end of the island. I was not sure it would hold fish, but cast #2 into the top part of the eddy with a Skinny Dipper got a tap and it was a LM. Just 13", but nice to see up there.
I cast back further behind the wood next to shore and it got a solid hit. It was an 18"er and fought hard in the current. Another fish blind in one eye! It also had something sticking in it's side.
I tried to go back up to spots 1 and 2, but it only resulted in a jammed anchor that I had to cut off to get loose. I started the ride back and tried another island that I fish, but water was too fast. I did get a miraculous recovery after having to break off a crank stuck in a tree branch. It fell in the water and I caught up with it after about 5 minutes.
Eagles were out in numbers, saw 2 small otters or water rats (brown) in Goose Creek. Nice, warm day. I ended up with 8 fish total between 13-18". River should be good by the weekend or next week. Crew Team is working out of Algonkian, which is a pain. They left 3 jon boats blocking the ramp (ugh). Relocated from Beaverdam Reservoir.
Last edited by drxfish (May-02-18 6:33AM)
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Beautiful pics!
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Nice......let's go get 'me on Tuesday!
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Great report and pics, nice smallies too! I haven't done any smallmouth fishing this year, I need to do something about that.
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