3 Days On The River

[BATCAB27]

four of us put in at greer and floated to whites creek on friday. caught several trout on the way. fished around whites creek on Saturday and did well. caught all trout on a home made peach colored jig. tried lots of other things but zero results. back to the peachy and kept on catching. floated to riverton on sunday and caught a bunch more trout. tried for some smallies but no good. anybody got any info on small mouths below greer? all in all probably 50 trout caught keep 4 for dinner Saturday . had a great time with the best of friends.

[SmallyWally]

Thanks for sharing BAT.

[Mark]

Sounds like a great trip. I think most people have more luck smallmouth fishing the farther south you get on the river. Not much smallmouth action until you get below Halls Bay, from what others have told me. I've floated from Riverton to Hwy 142 a couple of times with some smallmouth success. I've heard that from the Narrows to Arkansas is the best smallmouth fishing. Definitely a bigger river down south. Talked to a local smallmouth fisherman once at the Hwy 142 bridge who launches there and works upstream and downstream a few miles and consistently catches nice smallies. Guessing much less river traffic and the water warms a bit, although admittedly, the river is not quite as pretty down south. But the few times I have floated below Riverton, you don't see as many people as a whole. But floated there once over 4th of July and it got pretty crazy with lots of jet props with big motors. I would think that weekdays on the southern part of the river would be the ticket. That's also where people catch walleyes.

[2sheds]

My mid-Summer experiences downstream of Greer:

• First good stretch of smallmouth fishing begins below the rapids downstream of Connor Spring.
• Last trout caught around Riverton.
• First walleye around Piney Creek.