An actual (short) fishing report- 6/26 Monte Ne

[bferg]

Does anyone on this site fish anymore!? I needed a report this week!

Finally got out for a couple hours this morning before work. Fished Monte Ne from 5:15-7:30. Water was high and stained and 83 (ish) degrees. I was really looking for a top water bite and stuck with that for most of the short time I was out. Not a single taker. Fished a few docks as well, got desperate and threw Ned for a couple minutes and that yielded one very small spot.

Not sure this helps anyone much as my time on the water was limited...

[Feathers and Fins]

There are NO fish in Beaver lake

But yes I have Report and will post it. been busy with personal stuff though.

[J-Doc]

There are NO fish in Beaver lake

But yes I have Report and will post it. been busy with personal stuff though.

Because the stripers ate them all! LOL!

(kidding)

[J-Doc]

In all honesty, I stopped posting reports. Mainly because I haven't found much worth reporting. This year has been tough on me as I can find fish, just can't always connect on them. I've grown very tired of watching fish on my graph swim up to the bait, look at it and then swim off. I've tried varying baits, retrieves, varying how I present the bait on dropshot (usually how I see fish swim up on the graph) and I either get a bunch of short strikers or I miss the hookset. It's been a tough year for me. I've caught some fish and when I was catching them consistently, I was on some bigger fish.

My last trip (Saturday) was about the straw that broke the camels back.

- Had a ski boat cross my bow by about 30ft sending a 4ft wake over my bow as I was idling (completely didn't care that I was there)

- Had two ski boats come off plane within 60ft before colliding with me and then idle right over my fishing line (thought I was going to get spooled with my line in their prop)

- Had someone pull a tube within 80ft of the ramp I was launching sending my boat up and off the trailer before I was ready(there's not a no wake zone at that ramp)

- So much boat traffic I couldn't stay on plane without beating my boat to death and I can run across rough water pretty easily in my rig but cris-crossing wakes make some steep cresting waves

- And I lost my front graph cover after it flew off from crashing a ski boat wake

- To make matters worse, I dropped live minnows down on fish, watched a small school come up, look at the bait and then swim away

So no reports from me for a while.
Beaver is becoming a ski-boat/cigarette boat lake and it's over-run with boaters. It's making it quite difficult to fish these days. Even other anglers are spot jumping each other more frequently, waking each other, etc.

[Feathers and Fins]

What he just said is echoed by many people I have talked with. It is really getting to the point even on weekdays its insanity of rudeness and inconsideration. I fear it will be until School goes back in session and THE VAST MAJORITY of boaters I am seeing midweek are in their teens and early twenty's, Many I wonder if they are even legal to be driving.

The best fishing reports have all been 4am launch and back at the ramp by 11am latest on week days or week ends till 9am. Most fishermen are wanting nothing to do with the lake after that myself included. But there is good fishing to be had during those times

[bferg]

Well I was kidding about the report thing... I know we are in the middle of the summer where fishing is rough for all the reasons mentioned above. But we had Monte Ne to ourself this morning.

Next Thursday I have a day off and I am thinking of heading up to the dam area (which I have hardly ever fished). Any help on a smallie patter up there would be much appreciated. Or I might head to Rocky Branch...which I am much more familiar with. Any reports from either area?

[Feathers and Fins]

Smallies on the rip rap.

[J-Doc]

Rocky B. I'd avoid the dam. Been there 3-4 times now. Confirmed why I don't fish there much.

[Stump bumper]

I was at Rocky Branch last weekend and the really big boats were out playing. I could not set on a deep point until dark and there was nothing hitting up in the coves besides bluegils. I am not good at night fishing, I need to get on that sunrise bite with this cold front but just could not get going at 4am.

Might go try the tail waters tomorrow.