Cedar Grove To Akers Fishing Report 4/11/09

[jibro]

Hey everyone first time poster here. First let me say I float this section every Easter and I never see to much info posted about it here. Camped at the Cedar Grove bridge Fri night great camping weather that night with a fire but the morning was darn cold and really foggy river was up a bit but not bad at all a little cloudy but still fairly clear. Put in at 9 first spot we stopped at the the first few riffles only 1 fish landed 14" bow. Nothing on the next set of riffles. Hit the first 90 degree bend with a huge boulder coming up pulled out 4 bows between 14-16. One 14" smallie and couple bluegill. The rest of the day we caught more fish then we could even count anymore i think by the end of the day it was around 40+ fish mostly trout in the 14-16" range a handful of goggle eye and the occasional smallie. Normally when we float this section this time of year the avg. size of the trout are 12-14" so the first difference we noticed right away that these fish were a good 2-3" bigger and normal and really fat. Almost all the fish we caught were out of deeper water with steady current. When we hit a hole it we were pullin out 4-5 fish per hole. The bite lasted until about 3:30 then everything shut down not 1 fish from Welch to Akers and that was fine we just had the best day of fishing possible. Every fish we caught was on Gulp alive emerald shiners. We tried multiple baits throughout the day rooster tails, trout worms, small cranks, grubs then only thing they wanted were those darn rubber minnows. Now everyone you ask down there will tell you the best fishing is from Welch to Akers and i have NEVER found this to be true. If you only fish from Welch to Akers you have wasted your day. Now the fishing from Welch to Akers maybe good in the morning but if your floating that really not an option and from what i have seen this year there are PLENTY of really nice size fish to be caught about Welch.