Any Fishing Reports? Hybrids?

[coloradofly]

Thinking about heading to beaver tailwaters with an 8wt and 250 grain sink tip to hunt down some stripers or hybrids... Has anyone heard of people catching hybrids and stripers this past week on the tailwaters, or does anyone have a recent fishing report?

[txspecks04]

Bump. Anyone been out there in the last week or so? Is the water still way up? I heard it was pretty bad out there a month or so ago...

[Bill Anderson]

I drove over to Beaver three days ago, and the lake is still very high as is the tailwater. Table Rock is still super high and it still backed up into the Beaver tailwater. If you don't have a boat, you're out of luck. I don't have one, so I'll have to wait until the water levels drop.Corps of Eng. says it may take until early August; hopefully it will drop sooner.I sure miss being able to wade below Beaver.

[Dave Marks]

I was there on the 16th, and did ok trolling deep divers from my 1 man pontoon. Caught half a dozen 13-15 inch rainbow trout and 1 sand bass or small hybrid (i forget how to tell the difference). Water is still extremely high as others have said and shore fishing is very limited. Most of the places where you'd even have a chance to catch something from shore were taken pretty early so if you are going to attempt it from shore get out real early and claim your spot. Road is closed to the handicap accessible area and parking spot that puts you at the big left turn in the river. I think you can still walk down there but fishing space is limited and if the Corps catch you driving past the barricade its a 500 dollar fine I think. I stayed at spider creek 1 night hoping that even with high water I'd be able to fish that great hole right there from shore but no dice. Might be able to fish the creek some but I didn't try. Water is over the driving surface of their little red bridge so you have to take the county road behind the Dam store to get to the other side of the resort.

There were still lots of cicadas on the water, but I saw very few fish rise at all while there and never saw one actually hit a cicada. I tried fly fishing a cicada but no takes or even rises to look at it. People are catching all kinds of stuff that came through the dam, and walleyes are being caught also I heard. As others have said if you have a boat its worth fishing for sure but otherwise probably best to head elsewhere. My 40lbs thrust motor was able to get me upstream even during generation so if your boat is small enough you may not need an outboard but be careful out there kids.