A couple of neighbors planned a trip to TC and invited me and another neighbor, but we declined......daughter just had braces installed At the lst minute, the wife told me we should go and relax for the weekend, so we decided to go.
Thursday after work, we loaded Tim's camper and headed for Table Rock State Park! We were pumped, just the 4 of us, heading for TC to relax and do some fishing, with beautiful weather.......doesn't get any better than that!
Friday, Jimmy and Tim left at 6am to meet with Dave Welch, their guide for the day. They fished from 6-10 and 3-7 and caught many fish. Jimmy is going to post a fishing report, but they caught many fish, but not any lunkers........but Tim did catch a nice 17" smallie up by the wire. I will try to post a pic of that beauty when he sends me a copy. John and I fished between outlet 1 and 2 and later between 2 and 3, but we were skunked! First time at TC that I did not catch a single fish. I threw just about everything in my box, but no luck. I met Tighlines down at outlet 2....was a pleasure metting you. They were running 4 generators until 10pm, which was about 30 minutes after we were sawing logs......yes, we were all very tired.
Saturday morning, we slept in, ate breakfast, showered and heading down to do some fishing. By the time we made it to TC, they were generating. We decided to head over to Lilley's Landing to get some fishing and tying supplies. Phil was there and after talking about some different flies, he suggested we take a boat out and do some fishing because they were probably going to generate the rest of the day (Many thanks to Phil and Marsha). What an excellent decision!!! We fished all afternoon, drifting from the cable, down to Fall Creek and then back again. I have never fished from a boat on TC and what a blast it was. I fished a white jig I bought from Phil and caught fish all afternoon. Jimmy was kind enough to run the trolling motor for us! What a beautiful afternoon! All of the fish I caught were bows ranging from 14-18" and they all had great color. Saturday evening, Jimmy and I went down to TC to see if anyone was fishing, ahhum Leonard. There were about 7 guys fishing, but they were still running 2 gens, so it was still pretty fast. We meet Hoot, who was just calling it quits at outlet 2.
Sunday morning, they were running 2 gens and later opened 1 more. Caught 1 nice bow just past outlet 2 on a tan scud scud size 18........and then it was time to go home!! For those of you that live near TC, you are very fortunate!!
I acutally went to work this morning and I was totally relaxed!