Terrierman Posted July 22, 2013 Posted July 22, 2013 I try to give a fishing report of some sort after nearly every trip. Well this one ain't much. Main fishing buddy and I went to one of our absolute favorite spots yesterday morning. We got there when the sun was just coming up. It had rained/sprinkled enough that the road was wet in several spots on the way down. Thunder rumbled a bit in the distance, but no real threatening weather on us. Fished jig and pig, jig and trailer, spinnerbait, topwater bait, husky jerk, rebel crawdad crank, yum craw and finally a really small tube jig. I caught one small goggle eye and one smallmouth about 8 inches long. My buddy caught one smallmouth about the same size. We covered something like 2 miles of water that has plenty of good strong boulders in it and we normally do pretty well there. We came to the conclusion they just weren't biting. So we swam a little bit, enjoyed the river and went home. Nobody got shot or even yelled at.
Justin Spencer Posted July 22, 2013 Posted July 22, 2013 Fishing was tough here too from what I heard even with the rain. I would have thought it would be good. Glad you weren't shot! "The problem with a politician’s quote on Facebook is you don’t know whether or not they really said it." –Abraham Lincoln Tales of an Ozark Campground Proprietor Dead Drift Fly Shop
Al Agnew Posted July 23, 2013 Posted July 23, 2013 I've come that close to being skunked twice in the last 15 or 20 years. One time it was on a small wading creek, the other time it was on the upper Big Piney. I think I caught one or two small smallmouths both times during a full day of fishing. And both times, what struck me was that there were literally hundreds, if not thousands, of crayfish in sight on the bottom, something you just don't usually see during the day. I took that to mean that something had happened to the bass and goggle-eye population in that piece of creek, because otherwise those crawdads wouldn't have been that bold. The only other place I've seen like that was a private lake a year after it was built, before the bass that were stocked in it had a chance to grow big enough to eat adult crawdads.
RSBreth Posted July 23, 2013 Posted July 23, 2013 It happens - but I'm not sure if it's there aren't many Bass there or they just aren't aggressive. I covered about 3-miles of Beaver Creek last month with only a few Bass to show for it - until it started raining. Then it was one after another going back down through the water I'd just fished.
Mitch f Posted July 23, 2013 Posted July 23, 2013 Had the river been falling quickly? Could have turned off the bite. I'm sure more than one of us have seen instances when you literally bumped a lure on the fish's head and they wouldn't take it. "Honor is a man's gift to himself" Rob Roy McGregor
Terrierman Posted July 23, 2013 Author Posted July 23, 2013 It happens - but I'm not sure if it's there aren't many Bass there or they just aren't aggressive. I covered about 3-miles of Beaver Creek last month with only a few Bass to show for it - until it started raining. Then it was one after another going back down through the water I'd just fished. I can't imagine the spot we were in being devoid of fish. I'd mention where it was but my main fishing buddy would probably then be my main person to watch for trying to sneak up on me to strangle the life out of me.
Terrierman Posted July 23, 2013 Author Posted July 23, 2013 Had the river been falling quickly? Could have turned off the bite. I'm sure more than one of us have seen instances when you literally bumped a lure on the fish's head and they wouldn't take it. It's been low for a while. Sometimes they just don't bite, even when WE think they should. Keeps you humble.
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