Whites At The Blunk Hole

[laker67]

Did you see any snaggers that far up?

They are at the outlet after dark.

[Jason Essary]

nope, only other boat was down at longs camp. was a nasty day thou, watched graph and didnt hit any bills that I noticed. Rain and sun, rain and sun, rain and sun.

[CBNMO]

timr0123,

We put in at Flat Creek Resort yesterday and motored up almost to Galena. We could see the train bridge but started back down. River gage at Galena says it was a little lower than 8' when we was there. By my "in dash depth gage", it said most of the river was 6-7 feet deep (in the channel) at the shallowest, except one section that was only about 4' in the deepest part. I started digging gravel when it showed 3'. I'm sure my prop isn't 3' deep so it's off a little.

I think the shallow was up from Blunks a couple miles ? You can tell it's gonna get shallow, going upstream, the river turns to the right and the river widens up. Flooded brush sticking up in the river. Tried the outside section by the bank and it got to 3' and we started grinding gravel. Took the center section and it was deep enough to get through ok. Showed 4' on the depth gage.

We was in a 19' deep V aluminum, 3/4 tank of gas and 4 people with 130 hp 4 stroke. River gage is down to 7' right now but it's starting to rain in Springfield so it should be going back up soon.

If I remember right ? When the river was low, below Blunk the river bed is large flat rocks, not gravel? Maybe the center is gravel? Someone might know better ?

We landed about a 75# sow close to McCord Bend. Lost another nice one and caught a small male and turned it back. Only saw one other fish on a boat and it was real dark so it was probably caught several hours earlier, don't know where?

That was the only other boat we saw snagging above Walnut Springs boat ramp.

[CBNMO]

We was poking along. If your gutsy, you could run on plane ? I'd rather go slow and pick my way through. Did get to see a Bald Eagle sitting in a nest along the way. Pretty cool.

Where is the outlet they are snagging at ?

[timr0123]

timr0123,

We put in at Flat Creek Resort yesterday and motored up almost to Galena. We could see the train bridge but started back down. River gage at Galena says it was a little lower than 8' when we was there. By my "in dash depth gage", it said most of the river was 6-7 feet deep (in the channel) at the shallowest, except one section that was only about 4' in the deepest part. I started digging gravel when it showed 3'. I'm sure my prop isn't 3' deep so it's off a little.

I think the shallow was up from Blunks a couple miles ? You can tell it's gonna get shallow, going upstream, the river turns to the right and the river widens up. Flooded brush sticking up in the river. Tried the outside section by the bank and it got to 3' and we started grinding gravel. Took the center section and it was deep enough to get through ok. Showed 4' on the depth gage.

We was in a 19' deep V aluminum, 3/4 tank of gas and 4 people with 130 hp 4 stroke. River gage is down to 7' right now but it's starting to rain in Springfield so it should be going back up soon.

If I remember right ? When the river was low, below Blunk the river bed is large flat rocks, not gravel? Maybe the center is gravel? Someone might know better ?

We landed about a 75# sow close to McCord Bend. Lost another nice one and caught a small male and turned it back. Only saw one other fish on a boat and it was real dark so it was probably caught several hours earlier, don't know where?

That was the only other boat we saw snagging above Walnut Springs boat ramp.

Thank you for the information. I'm planning on going either tomorrow or this coming Tuesday. Just hope the fish are still there and the river has calmed down from the rain we are getting today and what they are forecasting for this weekend.

[CBNMO]

If you trust th National Weather Service, the forcast for the James River at Galena:

River will drop between now and 7 am to 6.8' (from 7') then start to rise until 6 pm Friday night at 8.3'. Then start going back down. By Tuesday morning it should be close to 6'.

[Kc River Ratt]

I did not get down there till 9 a.m. and as it turned out, it was the tail end of the morning bite for whites.......but I did find something else that wanted to play, and they played till around 2 p.m.........Walleyes were biting good. I ended up putting three keepers in the live well with the largest being 27 inches. That is a new record walleye for me. I did loose one other large one around 24-25 incher right at the side of the boat. That would have made a limit of keepers. I can not imagine how the bite would be after dark and early morning for them if it was that good during the day. Blunk got crowded but it seemed everyone was getting along. Must have been 35 boats from Blunk down to McCord's bend. The whites were starting to bite again as we were leaving around 4 p.m. Gulp 3" minnows on 1/8 oz. jig heads picked up all of our fish today. We caught 7 or 8 spots today with one going about 2 1/2 lbs and one large mouth also.

Nice walleye... gRaTz!!!