johndarin

So I went Tuesday evening and tried the ned, super fluke and wiggle wart. Caught 1 on a super fluke right up against the bank and a few more on a wiggle wart including a walleye and a crappie. They were on the medium steep banks, not sure how else to say that. The wiggle wart was the best by far.

Did you catch them on the Ned of crank? What crank were you using?

So I fished for the first time around Diamond City and did not do very well. I fished it like I do on Table Rock this time of year and that was not good (small swimbaits and grubs). Any suggestions?

What has been working up in the Trophy area has been 1/50oz jig under a float or a 1/16oz jig without the float when the water is slow or off. If the generators are running more just up your jig weight so 3/32 or 1/8. Down below Fall Creek dragging worms on the bottom has been the best. The last couple days the Corp has been running half a generator in the morning and the around 1pm turning it up to around 3 generators.

My father-in-law and I got out on Friday (sorry report is late) and caught a few. Still catching them on the 1/4oz jighead with the little swimbait. I did catch one nice smallmouth in the back of a little pocket but the rest were on secondary points keeping the boat in 25-30 foot of water.

My dad and I got out for a couple of hours today. We fished the main lake area throwing 2.8 Keitech's on a 1/4oz jig head. I kept the boat in 30ish feet and cast up towards the bank. Caught mostly k's but also caught smallies and 1 largemouth. The water is super clear. I was watching the fish chasing my swimbait a least 15ft down.

You are right about that!

I fished yesterday for about an hour and a half from Andy's house to the bottom of the narrow. I wanted to throw big streamers so I took my 8wt with 150 grain sink tip line and tied on a Galloups articulated monkey, molted color. Within the first 4 casts I had on small rainbow pretty much right behind Andy's on the bluff side. I had a lot of follows but nothing else until the top of the narrow which was a rainbow about 17in. There were 1.5 generators running which for me is perfect flow and water level for throwing big streamers.

Fished today for about 3 hours. Fished in the trophy area from Trophy Run down to the narrows and caught them pretty good there on a cerise (pink) micro jig about 5 feet under a float. Also caught a few in the same area on apricot supreme McFly foam eggs dragging them on the bottom. After that I moved down to the flat just below short creek and caught them on a salmon/pink Trout Magnet on a 1/50th oz jig head again about 5-6 feet under a float.

I have never fished for stripers and would appreciate some advice or tips. Probably going to be fishing for them more this winter.

I like it! I think that it would be great if you would allow wading. I've always wanted to participate in a wade fishing tournament like that.

I went today and long creek was full of trash! I didn't even try to fish there I just fished a little in cricket creek and caught some.

The water temp at long creek was around 50 but thats at the opposite end of the lake from the james.

Nice DD! Same place right? It was swarming with boats. To many for me thats why we moved to the confluence of the two creeks, no one within about 300 yards.

Thanks DD! I'm not sure about Alaska, I haven't heard anything from them yet about next summer. Are you going back?

Today was a very nice day. I actually got a little hot while I was out fishing today! the fishing was a little slower than yesterday but they were still cooperating. My dad and I fished the same area of Long Creek and caught crappie and white bass but there were a lot of other people in the same area. After a few hours we moved to Cricket Creek just to get away from the crowd but there were a few boats there too. We decided just to fish right where the two creeks come together and it was a good choice. We caught more crappie and white bass. The majority of the fish were in about 24 feet of water. We caught them on swimming minnows on an 1/8oz jig head.

Fishing today was great! The weather was decent but a little cool. The boat ride got a little chilly! We ran from the State Park ramp down to Long Creek and Cricket Creek. Right off the bat we were catching crappie! Kelland caught her first one ever jigging a swimming minnow on a tree right next to the boat! Most of the crappie we caught were on trees that we could see. We did catch a few on trees that we only saw on the graph. We caight them in 13 to 22 feet of water, with the majority in 18 to 19 feet of water. We did catch one that was in about 2 feet of water. The water temp was 48.2 degrees. I did catch one nice white bass close to a big brush pile in about 13 feet of water.

I just got my TWIC card from the office in Kansas City. Took 1 week from start to finish. According to the USCG website for the 6-pack license you have to have a TWIC card in order to get the 6-pack license.

i dont think so but if you bookmark it you can make it an icon like and app

What is he catching them on most of the time?

I got out this morning and fished for maybe 2 hours from 7am till about 9am. I think there were about 2 generators running at that time. Put the boat in at Cooper Creek and ran up to the bottom of Lookout Island. The first drift from there to the Narrows I threw a white articulated Boogie Man on my 8wt with 350 grain sink tip line, which I usually get a couple fish on, but got nothing not even a strike. Streamer fishing here on Taney is not the best but it is still fun and I usually will catch at least 1 brown when I do it. Ran back up a threw an egg (Miracle Fly) on 6x Fluoroflex under a Palsa. I just hit the seams where the fast and slow water meet and caught a couple doing that. I would look for the fish that were midging and the cast right were they came up. The fish were between 12 and 14 inches and all rainbows that I caught. Pic is the Miracle Fly.

The generators have been off for most of the day the last few days. The weather has been a lot cooler and a few have been rainy. On the 7th there was no power generation except for a couple hours in the morning. It was sunny and about 60 degrees. Perfect in my book for wade fishing. I started at about 3 in the afternoon and I only had a couple of hours to fish. I decided to fish around Lookout Island. One of my favorite places to fish is on the backside of the island. I have caught most of my biggest fish in that area. Since the 2011 flood the gravel has been filling it in back there making it really shallow and skinny water but there are a few hole where big fish like to hide. I was hoping to find some nice browns back there but that was not the case. I didn’t even see any browns at all and just a couple rainbows until I got to the lower half of the island. There were a lot of fish there. I was using a 1/100oz yellow egg set under an indicator to where the egg was just off the bottom. The first few fish were small and then, an 18 incher. I thought cool that will be the biggest fish for the day but I was wrong. On the next cast I hooked a female rainbow that was around 24 inches, a guess, but she was really skinny. She came in quickly so I got a couple picks and let her go. She swam off right back to where I caught her from. After that I caught quite a few more small rainbows all on the egg (Miracle Fly). Overall the fishing was great and I am hoping the generators to continue to be off for at least part of the day so I can do some more big fish hunting. The first pic is the 18 inch and the second is the bigger one.