War Eagle Report

[Fishin Hodge]

Well, after great thought and consideration of all the options we decided to hit War Eagle last night. Water was fairly colored at the sidewalk hole, but not nearly as dark as I figured it would be, exactly like the report we had going over. Fished on the flats there for 5 minutes before running up the creek as far as I felt I could get me bass boat. There is a Sycamore almost completely blocking off the creek, went around it about half a mile and started. Caught a few whites along the way, nothing huge, but fun none the less. There were a lot of males stacked up right below the sycamore tree over on the flat side of the creek. Fun but smaller. You could catch a lot of fish there if you wanted to yesterday. Kept moving and never hit the mother load of sows so we went back down to the Sidewalk hole to be sure there wasn't going to be some late evening striper action. Think it is a little to colored because there was no action to speak of other than a couple of carp.

Heard some dock talk that a guy had caught around 60 crappie in the bushes. Two of them were big and the rest were around 8 inches. He was saying you had to yo yo the little jig in the bushes to get bit. He said when he did that he caught a lot, but if he just swam it he wasn't catching anything.

Forgot to add, by the time we got to the back of War Eagle, the water had a nice color with 18-24 inch visibility.

[Stump bumper]

Thanks for the report I have really been wanting to get down there and see what is happening, now I don't feel I an missing that much.