Any Recent Reports?

[bikehikefish]

I'll be floating from Greer down this weekend and I'm wondering what shape the river is in and how the fishing is. Any advice is appreciated!

[Brian Sloss]

The river is below normal flows and has been a while now. It has been fishing really well lately on my guide trips with Pats rubber leg stones and size 10 prince nymphs drifted deep doing particularly well. Marabou jigs have done well too. Just got back from electro-fishing with the MDC, they will be back at it on Thursday as well. That could adversely effect the fishing for a few days after the shocking. Plenty of in there though.

[jdmidwest]

The river is below normal flows and has been a while now. It has been fishing really well lately on my guide trips with Pats rubber leg stones and size 10 prince nymphs drifted deep doing particularly well. Marabou jigs have done well too. Just got back from electro-fishing with the MDC, they will be back at it on Thursday as well. That could adversely effect the fishing for a few days after the shocking. Plenty of in there though.

The electro fishing project may have the opposite effect, it normally purges their stomach contents and they go on a feed to fill it back up. Any nice ones on the adventure? Any walleye, smallies, goggle eye of any size?

[Tito Degiosio]

Been Ctaching alot of smallies and google eye lately some nice smallies have started to turn up down river and the google have been doing well to late in the evenings Have fished the whole trout river system over the last few days and here is what I determined from it

Greer Crossing to buck Bay(turners) can't keep them off the hook Black rubber legs been my fly of choice size 6 long shank caught alot of fish that were shaped like little footballs also the fish in that section have started showing off there spawning colors really well

also lots of otters in this section now seen three at once at log jam I'm gonna start trapping I think

Turner to whitten Fishing has been great early in the morning hours but coming to almost dead stand still by mid afternoon (Typical)day of fishing that part of the river system found some 5 pound plus trout over the summer including one that would of pushed 8 pounds in tumbling shoals

plenty of fish still in that section but also plenty of other fisherman Fly of choice in that water (Crawdad patterns)and black stones size 8 with

Egg dropper alot of google eye in this section with a few smallies

Now the section I use to know nothing about whitten to halls bay (didn't fish below halls bay)

found one really Big trout Feeding in 3inches of water never hooked her

but did notice quite a few Nice trout were in this section more then I thought I will be back as soon as I get the chance

there was a great spawn last year in this section have caught and seen alot of trout under 5 inches long over the whole river system but mostly from greer to turners and from whitten to halls bay

used sinking line to get down in the deep holes with my normal flies put extra split shot something new I been playing with and have

started to have great success with the deep 10 foot plus holes they hold fish of nice size but swinging a fly though them that deep can be tricky

fished normal floating line in the lower sections of river

Fly of choice Big rubberlegs BLK,BRW

Found some big beavers at the old river talking 60 plus pounds If I had to guess can't wait to catch one in a trap this winter

water levels have been low in places but deeper in others due to the flood last year the shoal below whitten boat ramp has been piled up with gravel and making the big whole in front of the boat ramp deeper this is the case all over the river system now

to sum it up

Get out there and fish they are there and in good numbers

And wackyworm had a great time out there let me know how the rest of your float went and who won the fish a thon

[Tito Degiosio]

The river is below normal flows and has been a while now. It has been fishing really well lately on my guide trips with Pats rubber leg stones and size 10 prince nymphs drifted deep doing particularly well. Marabou jigs have done well too. Just got back from electro-fishing with the MDC, they will be back at it on Thursday as well. That could adversely effect the fishing for a few days after the shocking. Plenty of in there though.

found your brown/white tail with white legs pats rubber legs stuck in a fish looks like brian wises flys caught a few fish on it guess it works thanks for the pattern

[bikehikefish]

Thanks for the information. They shocked it? Just my luck, and not the first time. A few years ago I was fishing the Meramec just below the spring, not catching anything, and a guy in a jon boat checking his traps stopped by and said, "You know, MDC had shocking training in this pool yesterday, they shocked it REAL good!"

But I'll be floating and fishing anyway. If you see three guys in yellow kayaks, say hi.

[Mark]

Great report Tito. The Ste. Gen. boys will be down in a few weeks for our annual fall float, always the same time as Brian's Fall Fly Fishermen BBQ. Can't wait!! The river is always beautiful that time of years with clear water, trees starting to turn colors, not much river traffic with turkey season going on, and cooler temperatures make for great camping

Of course I wouldn't mind being on the river today with temps in the low 90s - too hot for late Sept.

[Brian Sloss]

I generally like to give the fish about two days before I hit an area that has been shocked because of the stress put on the fish by the shocking. By Sat they should be biting well again I would hope. Sounds like you found a girdle bug, which I have started carrying lately and it has shown pretty good results. Glad you did well with it. We found more young of the year trout in this years sample than I have seen in a number of years going along with the electroshock crew. It was what I thought might happen as we have been catching some all summer.

[jdmidwest]

I generally like to give the fish about two days before I hit an area that has been shocked because of the stress put on the fish by the shocking. By Sat they should be biting well again I would hope. Sounds like you found a girdle bug, which I have started carrying lately and it has shown pretty good results. Glad you did well with it. We found more young of the year trout in this years sample than I have seen in a number of years going along with the electroshock crew. It was what I thought might happen as we have been catching some all summer.

What about the other species, smallies, walleye, google eye? I assume it was on the Greer to Turner area? Did the shock crew roll out anything other than rainbow trout?

[FishinCricket]

Don't tell him Brian, make him guess... (snicker)

Thanks for the tips fellas...