How To Fishing When The Dam Is Releasing Water

[Wei Guo]

Have no idea about how to fishing when the dam is releasing water. Any big fish under the dam?

[fishinwrench]

Heck Yeah!

Whatcha gotta do is cast up into the lake and feed line down through the turbines.

Be sure to use a quality snap-swivel to ward off line twist, and hold on tight to your gear cuz the bites are ferocious!

[Quillback]

Heck Yeah!

Whatcha gotta do is cast up into the lake and feed line down through the turbines.

Be sure to use a quality snap-swivel to ward off line twist, and hold on tight to your gear cuz the bites are ferocious!

Wrench, you are a bad man.

[Wei Guo]

Heck Yeah!

Whatcha gotta do is cast up into the lake and feed line down through the turbines.

Be sure to use a quality snap-swivel to ward off line twist, and hold on tight to your gear cuz the bites are ferocious!

Thank you. Can I know what baits you recommend and how much weight you use?

I tried super fluke with 1/2 oz jighead and 1oz bucktail. Didn't catch any fish.

Any striper or black bass is under the dam?

[Wei Guo]

Wrench, you are a bad man.

lol why? not a lot of bite?

[fishinwrench]

Ermergerd !

Sorry WeiGoo, I am furloughed clown making tasteless joke.

http://www.oocities.org/yosemite/rapids/9007/tailwaters.html

[Wei Guo]

Ermergerd !

Sorry WeiGoo, I am furloughed clown making tasteless joke.

http://www.oocities.org/yosemite/rapids/9007/tailwaters.html

You are fine. Sorry for my English, jokes are still hard for me to understand with my English level...

Actually, I saw a guy did what you said under the dam. But catch nothing until I left....

[fishinwrench]

Your bait choice is fine for starters, maybe lighten up on the weight some and look for areas where faster current meets slower or no current (known as an "eddy").

Also study the makeup of the banks and concentrate on spots where the shoreline changes (a pile of big rocks along a smooth gravel bank, for example) or anywhere there is an object that fish can get next to. If there are alot of objects then look for the ones that are slightly different. Or something (anything) that alters the current.

It can be really subtle. For example: a pond I fish regularly has a flooded fencerow along one side, there are 9 fence posts that are submerged and two of them are not straight, they are leaning towards the center of the pond. The most consistent bites always come from around those two posts.

[DaddyO]

Wei, you will probably have more luck fishing for stripers and black bass downriver around Gore Landing or just downriver from Marval. If you are after striper, in this river, try fishing just before daylight.

[Wei Guo]

Your bait choice is fine for starters, maybe lighten up on the weight some and look for areas where faster current meets slower or no current (known as an "eddy").

Also study the makeup of the banks and concentrate on spots where the shoreline changes (a pile of big rocks along a smooth gravel bank, for example) or anywhere there is an object that fish can get next to. If there are alot of objects then look for the ones that are slightly different. Or something (anything) that alters the current.

It can be really subtle. For example: a pond I fish regularly has a flooded fencerow along one side, there are 9 fence posts that are submerged and two of them are not straight, they are leaning towards the center of the pond. The most consistent bites always come from around those two posts.

Thank you, you are really good at fishing. I will try to find some eddys and hope can catch a fish.