Fishing Report, From Near Hwy 142 Bridge (Narrows)

[LittleRedFisherman]

Made it to the river today finally, as the rains have kept me out of the field so I could go, but also had the river at a high flow still. The water cleared thoughout the day, and looked pretty good by noon, but there was a lot of current that added a lot of difficulty in fishing, especially for the boat handler.. We had a short day because I had to get back to take my little boy to a tee ball game, (can't miss those!). Anyhow, started out pretty good catching some kentuckys and a dandy Largemouth up in a backed out creek, that got things going, but then we focused on trying to pull out a smallie, and boy let me tell ya, they must of had lockjaw, or we didn't find them. Threw everything but the kitchen sink, I had 5 rods rigged and also my TFO 5wt with the jig and float. Tried a lot of soft plastics for awhile in the current, trying to find them behind wooded cover in the current, I tried, worms, chompers, and crawdad imitaitons. Chad tried some of those as well, plus a jig and pig. Caught all my fish but one on a Jerkbait, so I used it more than I planned for in pursuit of the smallie. Chad caught a nice Largemouth on a "Riverbilly from Jennybug bitis out of Thayer MO, trying to support the local cause I guess. It reminds me a lot of a Chomper, which I tried today as well. Got broke in on my new baitcaster, first time in 10 years since I've used one, and loved that, bought a good on this time, think that was my problem years ago. I was a lot more efficient with it on a jerkbait for sure! It was a nice day to be on the river, and caught some pretty good fish, think we needed another day or two possibly before the smallmouth bite to be on? I'm still not to familiar with this area, so maybe I'm missing something, but we sure covered some good looking smallmouth water, although these pics don't show that, we caught the spots and largemouth were you would expect to, in the slack water and eddys. Got some good river footage on my gopro I might edit out someday.

[Brian Sloss]

The upper river from Thomasville to Greer is fishing well for smallies now. Get that new kayak of yours up there if you get a chance.

[LittleRedFisherman]

Thanks Brian, that is something I've got to do soon. Chad is looking at getting a Cuda, so if he gets that, we will be wanting to do that someday, i'll holler at ya when we do! Plan on using mine in the Southfork this summer when we go to Hardy!