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Fished The James from Delaware up today. Fished to the old bridge then back down. Caught a nice collection of fish: some decent smallmouth and largemouth, a few little spots, a few rock bass and one really nice walleye. The last fish that I hooked was a two to three foot gar. She pulled me around for about twenty seconds then jumped out of the water a full foot above my head and threw the crank she hit. I was happy to have my crankbait back even if it was a little mangled. Most of the nice fish came on a bandit 200 in brown craw, all the rest of my fish where caught on a 1/8 once spring craw bitsy bug with a paca craw on the back. All the smallies where caught off of wood with a good amount of water moving past them and all the largemouth where caught off of wood in slack water.

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Can you wade there or do you have to have a boat of some sort?

"Of all the liars among mankind, the fisherman is the most trustworthy."

"There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot."

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You can wade it but there is a no swimming sign up. If you do wade it about a half mile up there is a really big and deep run that would be really difficult to get around. I fished from my kayak today and got out and waded when i could.

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A crankbait catching fish in the James? Say it isn't so...

Sorry, just being sarcastic.

Good report.

Another Walleye on the crank get's me thinking about a fish fry...

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Another Walleye on the crank get's me thinking about a fish fry...

That's exactly what I thought while I was holding her. I was thinking about maybe going there sometime and keeping a few of the walleyes and goggleyes, but I've never eaten fish from any river I don't know what to expect. Someone told me that river fish taste different.

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