7/13/09

[crawfly]

Went down to the river to test out a new pattern (for me). I fished it down from the bridge and had one strike. I think it was a white bass dink.

The reason I say that is on fishing my way back up I put on a black gurgler and ended up catching 6 white bass dinks and 2 smallies. I trekked upstream from the bridge and caught a couple more smallies but the biggest one for the trip came from right at the bridge. I was surprised by the whites. Didn't think they would be that far up the Finley this late.

[smallmouthjoe]

Nice fish and good report. I keep meaning to hit 160 but I always forget about it until someone on this site mentions it. Thanks for the report.

[crawfly]

If you do 160, go early! I crossed paths with 2 moms and a passle of kids dragging a cooler down the path at 10:30 on a Monday morning.

That spot takes a beating and it shows. At least there was only one dirty diaper this time. Last time I went they were 4 or 5, even on both sides of the river!

[Flysmallie]

It gets a lot of traffic but mostly just swimmers and apparently small children wearing diapers.

It doesn't get much fishing pressure though especially if you get away from the access.

[RSBreth]

As long as there is pretty decent flow in both the James and Finley, there are Whites as far up as they can swim.

Sorry to hear about the diapers, what is wrong with people?

[smallmouthjoe]

Man, whats with the diapers? I went to Bull Creek today and saw a diaper setting on a gravel bar. When I went to The Buffalo a couple of weeks ago someone had literally left a pile of diapers a foot from the stream at Carver. People have no respect for the streams that they enjoy spending time at and it makes me kind of sick.

[Greg]

I used to fish that area a lot when I was younger. Back then (20+ years ago) there were really good numbers of smallmouth and largemouth. As well as channel cats. I used to catch channels occasionally on the rapalas and crankbaits I was throwing. I'm glad to see it still fishes pretty well.

Greg