Snagging Opener

[Seth]

Came down for our annual trip and did really well. We never ended up with any giants, but caught a lot of small males with a few sows up to 56#. On the first night/morning, we boated 15 between 12am-4am. On the second night, we caught four more between 12-2am. They weren't nearly as concentrated as the night before. I'm sure the pressure from the daylight snaggers had the fish stirred up a bit. Everything was caught above point 15. I also caught my first tagged fish. My buddy caught one too. We kept six the first night, but never messed with keeping any the second night. My decks were a solid sheet of ice where we were pulling the fish in to the boat after a few hours of snagging on the first night.

We also trout fished on Taneycomo during the day on the 15th. I posted a report for that in the Upper Taneycomo section.

[dtrs5kprs]

You had to really be into it to do it at night. 

[Seth]

10 minutes ago, dtrs5kprs said:

You had to really be into it to do it at night. 

Once boat traffic dies down, we snag during the day. We always go right when it opens to get first dibs on the fish. The fish become a lot tougher to find and snag even after the first day. It will pick back up when the water warms up again and new fish move up. New fish won't be moving up much with the water being 45-48 degrees though. I should have taken screen shots of how stacked we found them the first night and then compared it to the second night.

[Chris89]

Seth are you talking about point 15 as in the river or towards Bridgeport

 

 

[Seth]

Point 15 of James River arm so up river from Bridgeport.

[Chris89]

K so up towards walnut springs heard its shallow up there

[Seth]

It is shallow, but you can just get up there fine if you know the channel. My Lakemaster chip made running from Bridgeport to McCords Bend MUCH easier, especially in the dark. There's a lot of stobs up that way though. Those are what will get you.

[Chris89]

Thanks Seth do you remember  about how deep it is around there

 

[Seth]

It was 10-12' most of the way up until you get to the Walnut Springs Ramp. Once above that, it was more like 5-6' and then drops down a few more feet once you get up river to where it necks down. You can't make it all the way to McCords without a jet boat though. It's just a riffle once you get up to a certain point.

[Champ188]

You guys are way madder at those spoonbills than I've ever been at any fish to get out there and run that skinny, stumpy water at night. Hope you are exercising extreme care.