Fishing On 5/22

[On The Fly 6]

Anyone else planning to fish the river this weekend? I'm hoping they won't be generating, but with all the rain we are getting who knows! The weather should cooperate so let's hope the Corp of engineers does as well!

[GoodFisher]

We will be fishing the LIR this weekend. We hope they are running water! But we will be fishing for different sport fish. Good Luck to you though!

[Zach Bearden]

On The Fly, a friend of mine tells me that at Marval they are catching plenty of trout off the J hook things they threw in there. Even with the water up he tells me they were getting them pretty consistently fishing small nymphs under an indicator and just dead drifting them.

GoodFisher, you guys fishing for striper I guess? Tell me how you do!

Best Regards,

Zach Bearden.

[DaddyO]

Zach,

It's good to see you posting in the forum again. We haven't heard from you in a while.

OTF6,

I wish I had time to come down this weekend, but I have family commitments to keep this weekend. Maybe another time. Good luck!

[ColeM.]

High water all weekend! I am dying to see if the stripers are in the river and with the generation schedule it looks like it could be a couple of weeks before we see some low water again.

GoodFisher: Please let us know how you do.

[GoodFisher]

We camped at Gore landing. The water temp. there was 55 degrees. We set out early sat. morning, finding shad at the opening into the the Arkansas. Bait was easy. The temp. there was 70 degrees. After catching our bait and setting out our juglines we circled the big island and went up into stump creek. Tim's shad was aggressively attacked but lost the big boy on a stump. We got a few more hits back trolling with balloons. But never was able to land one. We worked the whole river but only saw signs of the stripers at the 2 openings into the Arkansas. There was a definate mud line just into the LIR, from the Ark. Our juglines produced three nice blues and one channel cat. As for the stripers, I think maybe a few more weeks of warm temp.'s is all thats needed to get those big guys further up into the LIR. We caught a lot of PEACE and sunshine. We had a wonderful time being back on the LIR and are planning our next trip in a few weeks.

Back at camp a few people told us they had some action at the same places I just described. And felt a few weeks of warm weather is all that is needed to get this season rolling on the LIR!