Where Is Everyone?

[NoLuck]

Sheesh, to look at the Bennett forum you would think the place closed up. Hasn't anyone been down fishing?

[Paola Cat]

Hey NL .... gonna make it down once the LMB, crappie, and whites stop biting.

[laker67]

Sheesh, to look at the Bennett forum you would think the place closed up. Hasn't anyone been down fishing?

I was there this past sunday. It was almost a ghost town for a weekend. The creek is really lacking in numbers of fish. I walked between the upper and middle wingdams, and only counted six small fish. Zone 2 two has fair numbers, but nothing like it should be. I was also there two weeks ago and noticed a reduced number of fish. This season is starting to look like the 04 season.

[NoLuck]

I was down the Saturday before the last and it seemed to me I saw more fish than last year at this time. Zone 2 has quite a few fish but you have to really look for them. The water color makes it tuff to see them. The place I did best was above the dam on a full sink line. I caught about 20 fish in about 1 hour and a half. 2 of those fish I'm pretty certain were over 2 lbs. Most of the fish I have caught other places down there have been pretty small.

PC, I know what you mean about the crappie. I haven't been this year but I need to. Maybe we can hook up this year with BrittsnBirds if he ever gets out again. LOL I gotta get my camper down there so I can have a place to stay when I come down for more than 1 day.

Cya guys soon,

Rich

[fishinwrench]

I kinda miss Bennett, but I'm sticking to my guns and have sworn it off.

Plenty of other places (free of surveillance) to get my fix.

[eric1978]

That's a cool pic, man. Nice mess.

[rollcaster]

I fished Bennett on Tuesday this week and there was a marked reduction in numbers of fisherman as well as fish in the stream. We did manage to catch a few really nice ones in Zone 2 but fishing was slow. Fished Zone 1 above Holland Dam in the afternoon and basically wasted our time. The stream is very thin on numbers of fish. I've been fishing Bennett for over 40 years and never seen it this bad.

[fishinwrench]

I've been fishing Bennett for over 40 years and never seen it this bad.

Wow,that's profound. I guess the timing of my boycott was favorable.

[brittsnbirds]

NoLuck is back?

My cousin and I were down over spring break for a few days. Water was up, color was dark and the fishing sucked as there was a front coming in daily.

Haven't had a chance to get back down. Neighbor is doing some cabinet work on the trout shack hopefully will get back down sometime in the next few weeks??

Dixie told me last night she needs to get out!!

Welcome back to the real world Rich!

[NoLuck]

Hey Pat,

Glad to see you are doing OK. I was kinda wondering where you been. Hope we can get together some weekend or a few weekdays would be even better. Saturday is kids fishing day I think and then there should be plenty of fish in Zone 2 swimming around for the people that have trouble catching fish. LOL

I have to go to Enders NE here in the next couple of weeks for a small job then it looks like it may slow down,I hope. So it looks like it will be the end of May when I should be freed up to maybe get some time off to get in some R&R.

For the people that have been fishing and not seeing any fish, you just have to get down to them. They are there but deep. The fish don't just jump on your hook by no means but you can catch them if you adjust to the conditions. Something to think about is last years fishing conditions. That goes into the average for how many fish get released for this year. It will get better soon. Even though last years high water kept people away, the average will still get more fish in the stream. I didn't catch too many decent sized fish the last trip till I started getting down deep to them with a sinking line. Then most of the fish I caught were better than average.

Hang in there people they are there,

Rich