fishing in general over the summer

[merc1997 Bo]

hurray!  labor day weekend is just about gone, and hopefully some of barge boats that are just about as destructive as hurricane driven winds.  went do to the dam area friday night, and it was a darn good chore just to stay in the seat and not get thrown off the deck, and there was not really many boats out.  gives you a good idea of the problem when there is.

anyway, the summer has been pretty productive as far as numbers and numbers of keepers.  there a few better quality bass to be caught, but the amount of boats on the water definitely  makes the go into hiding.  there some deeper bass to be had, but mostly in the daytime.  right now there is a very thin thermocline around 28 ft. in the dam are, but i have found very few fish in contact with anything that depth at night.  the lake as a whole has fished very shallow for me.  goes to show what high water will do, and also not having any clear water.  other than in the winter, i doubt we will ever see summer bass hardly ever past 20 ft.

i have been busy transplanting brownies all summer.  when eagle rock is only 13 miles from the house, it sure would be nice to have a good brownie population up this way.  someone posted just a while back that they had tangled with a 3 lb. brownie at eagle rock, but it got off.  see, it is already working.

night fishing will still remain very good on up into november, but will cooler daytime temps and a lot of boat traffic not on the water, i do still enjoy daytime fishing.  will be interesting to see how fall turnover develops this year, since what thermocline there was never got very deep.  heck champ you could be in luck this fall, and they all stay shallow.  wherever all the baits ends up will always be the deciding factor.

bo

 

 

[Sprint21fter]

We have a guy in our bass club that has transplanted Brownies in the upper Kings and it has been productive. Last November when FLW had their Championship Cody Bird almost won it running way up the river catching Brownies.

[176champion]

I don't know if the pleasure boaters are going to be done after labor day...i have a buddy that has a marine repair shop and has not done one winterzation on a boat yet so far, he says which is strange as he usually has had a couple by now...