Fishing report 09-08-17 morning & afternoon

[crazy4fishin]

Started out a bit later - around 6:45 a.m. and boated up to the short creek area. There was a pontoon full of folks already having some fun!

There were a few others in that area so I went up lake a bit and sat in 4' of water casting into the deeper area. Float set at 6' give or take and there was great action - just a bit slower than the past few mornings (see fishing report made simple for the rig used). Many were easily keepers with plenty of fight! One thing I did notice this morning was that you had to pay attention to the float as it truly was an indicator to what was happening - if you made it dance some it usually triggered the bite. 

If a float and pink worm is not your thing the next best thing is a night crawler on a drift rig - please note that when the water is not running you do not need much to get the bait down to fish level. Many times i noticed big rigs and the trout would do what they always do when they have time and that is to swallow the bait! Many small ones had to be kept because of that problem. 

If I was so inclined I would try the split shot route..... 

I will post pictures later - pic posted.... 

C4F

AFTERNOON report:

4 Units running!!! Duane finally convinced me to go up to the cable.....crank bait bite......yeah.....I made a couple passes from look out down to Fall Creek and NADA.....of course the way the water was flowing that took all of thirty four seconds....not really but it was moving fast and I wasn't as sure in my own abilities as I needed to be to concentrate on where I was - how I should be fishing etc. etc.

So the last pass I floated down and right across from Fall Creek Marina I hooked a nice 1.5 lb Rainbow on a spoon - I even weighed it on my scale! Fun times but sorry no pics of that guy  Tried the spoon all the way back to Lilleys and had a couple of strikes but nothing to the boat. 

O and if you are docking your boat when the water is running at 4 units....and you haven't done it in a year or so.....you had better be darn good at hitting your target! Sorry to the poor folks on the dock as I pin balled a bit....nothing a little rubbing compound cant get out

C4F