Fishing Report

[Phil Lilley]

Bill and I launched at Cow Creek and headed up towards the 86 bridge in search of white bass surfacing- and found nothing. I heard of a report and wanted to check it out.

I did though catch a nice smallmouth on a smoke grub running it on the bottom in 20 feet of water off a pea gravel bank. It was 18.5 inches long and fought very hard- jumped 3 times. One other goggleye and that was our morning.

Water is coming up. 3 inches in the past 48 hours. Water looked great- not much debry floating at all.

Bill has the pic- he'll post it when he feels like it.

[Fishin' Freak]

I decided to brave the elements this a.m. and give it a try in the rain. I put in at Joe Bald around 9:15 and headed up to the point 16 area and found some fish surfacing on flat pea gravel. I fished a number of flat areas and only seemed to have luck between the rain showers on my new homemade wiggle diggle (thanks Don H.!!!) I threw a spit shot rig and some grubs in the same areas with no luck. It was a slow morning but very pretty with a light rain coming down. I didn't catch anything with any size but it is always fun to see schooling smallies and spots busting the surface. I spent as much time chasing them as I did catching them but it was fun.

[Bill Babler]

Here is a pic of Phil's nice smallie. Couldn't get the whites to go but they are ready to start a bustin.

[Fishin' Freak]

Nice smallie Phil!!