Fishing Report(not Really)

[Trav]

Just went our for a quick cruise to see how the terrain has faired over this past week.

What I observed was confounding.

It was like viewing a totally different set of rules. Flats were chopped in half, holes were filled in. Old reliable cover is missing and drop off edges have either became less defined or moved yards down stream.

I also found points with longer draws and almost at the mouth of every cove and creek I found lots off debris. Good debris though, Piles of sunken logs and more roots balls than I have ever scene in those areas.

Now I looked at all of it as a double edge sword.

On one side. Thirty years of mentally mapping and coursing every hot brownie hole I could find has just been tossed in a blender. All my usual dozen or so daily hits were effected enough that I now question my confidence in them. It was if I woke up and I had to learn how to get dressed all over again. I couldnt help but to feel a bit discouraged because I could already feel my "40+, 20 inch brownies a year average" prowess will finally have to be accomplished by working for them instead of just hitting the spots I nurtured and playing the odds. I felt like a card counter in Vegas when they change the decks and dealers. I felt like I was playing trivial pursuit and someone has put in all new questions to the game I had mastered(memorized) over 20 years.

Then I looked at the time. I had been out on the lake graphing for 2 hours and havnt even wet a hook.

Bringing the reality of the other side. I was excited to see something new as well. I was in awe of the potential of it all and although my confidence was totally gone, the wheels in my head couldnt gear fast enough on how I wanted to adapt to it all. Then I started think that maybe my "one 20 inch brownie per 10 hour average" might improve. Then I started to feel like a guide again. The good side of the biz, not the service side, and then the tourney guy fishing new water popped his head out. I was salivating with the idea of conquering and determination quelled over the discouragement I was feeling not 2 hours earlier. I was actually feeling challenged by a water that I had predisposed as simple. A new fire lit inside of me and I couldnt imagine how sweet it might all be when we are down to 2 or 3 generators. I had a whole new lease of the Lower Taney and I was calculating all the ranch chores I will be able to blow off this summer.

Then I was remembering I had to meet the Lil Lady I started up the old 61' Evinrude to jet back to the dock and when I kicked it in gear. BAM....Broke my shear pin. Reminding me that I still havent fixed my prop yet.

At least some things havent changed.

Haha

I bet when all the water settles, alot of you guys will find your favorite wading spots up there by the Dam have made alot of changes similar to mine.

Hope you have fun with it.

[B1gluke56]

Trav you sound like your the go to guy for south Tany. Im thinking about bringing my boat and wife down for the weekend is tany still fishable? Ive had my boat down their before but in diferent conditions. How far would I have to go to get into good Trout fishing? Im bringing my wife so the eaiser for her to catch fish the better. where would you sugeset we fish And with What?

www.btlures.com

Thanks

[Trav]

Hopefully buy the weekend they will just probably be downs to just all generators. Still pretty high and fast. Most the easy bite will ocurr on the upper end. But the drift with white marabous would be a good start. I personally never fish above roark and tend to pursuit bass instead of trout when the water has been in high water generation for long periods of time.

[Sam]

Does anybody know if it's possible to launch a boat at Rockaway now? In the pictures posted here last week, it didn't look like you could launch.

How about going up Bull Creek? Can that be done? I'm thinking about bass fishing and sucker-grabbing up in there, if the water's cleared up.

[crappiefisherman]

Sam I was thinkin the same thing.I bet we will have a lot of company.Im bettin the launch will be fine at rockaway by the weekend unless it rains like nuts again.

[Trav]

All launcheas are OK! Bull is fine as well. Lower Taney is totally accessable.

[crappiefisherman]

So trav, have you stumbled across any of those ole nasty crappies yet down there? Or have you seen any whites cruising in the shallows up bull? I know if you give me a good answer there will be tons of folks there but .

[Trav]

As I have mentioned in prior posts, I dont really look for crappies or whites. I basically just run into them by accident while Bass Fishing.

Wich I havent been doing alot of latley.

I hopefully will get my property back in order and get my garden sowed(can you believe its not?) within the next week or so to get back into the swim of things.

I am also planning my yearly Bass Cram, am back to plan A(Campbell Point), That still might not happen till the first week of May.

After that, Expect a real surge of reports on the Lower Taney for I will be itching to start disecting the water in my own back yard again.