Upper James River (Blunk Hole) Whites Biting Again

[duckydoty]

A buddy of mine and his girl friend pulled two limits of whites out of the water this evening. Tomorrow should be some good fishing down at Blunk Hole. Weatherman says it will shut down again on Saturday.

[Sam]

I put in at Bridgeport mid-morning and fished my way up to the top of Asher Cane Bottom. Down near Bridgeport, water temp was 50 and I scoped lots of crappie in some usual places but couldn't get them to bite.

Up at Asher Cane I started out by catching 3 crappie and C/R a 14" bass. One of the crappie was short, but the other two were 11" and 14". Water temp at Asher was 53 and I spent the afternoon casting and slow-trolling a white swimming minnow on a 1/8 oz. jig head. I caught 11 white bass and could have finished a limit if I'd stayed later - I quit about 5 p.m.

Fishing, in the middle of the day, was slow - but they're in there. Lots and lots of boats, both white bass fishermen and spoonbillers. Spoonbill snagging seemed slow too, I saw several boats with one spoonbill but most with none, and none with more than one. There were so many boats it was hard to get between them, and like always some guys go full speed right between boats that are fishing. I took wakes over the front deck three times, and the rest of the day I just got bounced around a lot.

[CollegeFish86]

Where is the Blunk hole from Cape Fair?

[Dutch]

Where is the Blunk hole from Cape Fair?

Down town Galena.

[Sam]

Where is the Blunk hole from Cape Fair?

Upstream - a lot. From Cape Fair going up there's Virgin Bluff, then the highway bridge at Bridgeport where I put in. Going on upstream, there's where Flat Creek comes in (Point 15, I think), Ashercane is maybe 3 miles above that, then Long Camp, McCord Bend, Galena Park, then Blunk Hole at the sharp turn in the river. I'm not good at estimating distance by water, but I guess Blunk is maybe 12 miles up James from Cape Fair.