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#1 Oct-16-22 1:20PM
- hookup
- Patagonian Toothfish
- Registered: Jan-31-12
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How low can you go?
Started out at o'dark thirty hoping for a great day
Got hammered by dink as soon as we launched but no thunks. Dink bites tap tap tap on almost every cast. I was not ready to down size to catch them though
Some great holes but tap tap tap. I'm sure they were home but not this morning
Notice something I've never seen. The bottom was covered in something - I'm figuring an algae. Tough stuff too. And it looked like it was producing some spores that looked like sea cucumbers. It was low and clear so noticed it for the first couple miles. Also notice neither of us had hook ups. Just tap tap tap.
Finally about mid-day we noticed the algae/moss/crap was gone and we started seeing fish. Lotsa them. Carp, cats and smallies.
And just like that the light bulb turned on
This guy had some ick on its tail
We could sight fish them they were so easy to see. That means they see us too but nows the time they have their feedbags on
Ended up the day with both of us bringing fish to the lip and not getting out of the kayak but scraped allot because of the low water
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#2 Oct-16-22 1:41PM
- drxfish
- Patagonian Toothfish
- From: Sterling
- Registered: Jan-04-14
- Posts: 3022
Re: How low can you go?
Looks like a nice day!
Always wishin' I was fishin'
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#3 Oct-16-22 1:48PM
- Ernie
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- From: Ashburn VA
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Re: How low can you go?
hookup wrote:
Just tap tap tap.
Just like my day on the raft on the 'doah the other day.
hookup wrote:
We could sight fish them they were so easy to see. That means they see us too but nows the time they have their feedbags on
And this is what Greg and I experienced on Friday.
But...being on the water is better than most anything else!!
Time to go fishin' again!
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#4 Oct-17-22 5:37AM
- Bryan
- Patagonian Toothfish
- From: Bealeton, VA
- Registered: Mar-18-11
- Posts: 1204
Re: How low can you go?
Great pics and report. Sight fishing is my favorite way to catch any kind of fish.
tight lines
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#5 Oct-18-22 5:55AM
- hookup
- Patagonian Toothfish
- Registered: Jan-31-12
- Posts: 2348
Re: How low can you go?
Ernie wrote:
But...being on the water is better than most anything else!!
Exactly
Did a 7 mile stretch again yesterday.
No fish caught that were picture worthy so no pix. We caught smallies and large mouth in large mouth-type areas. We ran what's usually a nice fun class II but with the low water it was a bumpy ride through. We both made it but had to bounce our way through the rapid.
The scenery this time of the year is spectacular. Deer, bald eagles were everywhere. Heron were in the trees. Carpets of leaves on the water.
Figured out why the fish are so spooky. We would come across deep area's of the river that were packed with catfish, carp and smallies. Frustrating to see the pigs swimming around and not interested in biting anything. Imagine if all of a sudden your house was 50 percent smaller - in other words the square footage of your house was 1/2 of what is is now and you're still in the house with all your family and stuff. Wouldn't you be frustrated?
With the water so low, that's what happening to the fish. They're so frustrated with the low water that they are freaking out being confined to such small area's.
The good news is I know exactly where the winter holes are now on that stretch so when we get some water and the dinks grow up
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