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I guess I don't really know at what level you guys have launched in the past. Just looked awful low to me and I didn't see any bigger boats putting in. I do know for sure that it isn't even close to be full blown yet. One good indicator is there were no fish cleaned by the ramp!!

"you can always beat the keeper, but you can never beat the post"

There are only three things in life that are certain : death, taxes, and the wind blowing at Capps Creek!

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On 3/13/2023 at 5:48 AM, ollie said:

Went by there on Saturday and the water was still pretty low. Didn't look like a fun time launching a boat! I think I could have waded out to the first pillar and probably only get wet up to my waist. 

          Thanks Ollie. Waist would get it off the trailer. Problem is the blow out mound of gravel out from the ramp where outboards are gunned getting boat on trailer. 

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52 minutes ago, Phil Lilley said:

You guys still concerned about sugar in gas.... slashed tires?  I assume you're talking about 10C bridge.

            Neither of those problems for me but something quite different.  During the big run there are so many people in and out all day long and do not think there is a big problem in that instance. So, when I launch from that ramp when no one is around I do something else. I am sure Les and I are not the only ones that have had problems there before.

"We have met the enemy and it is us",

Pogo

   If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend"

Lefty Kreh

    " Never display your knowledge, you only share it"

Lefty Kreh

         "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!"

BilletHead

    " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting"

BilletHead

  P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs"

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I have not personally had any problems down there, but I could see where there could be with the location of it and such. Only once did I have a problem and it was fairly tame. Had a guy on meth try to pimp his girlfriend/ wife out to just about anyone who would listen to him. I just kept walking away and he left me alone and went on to the next guy. Other than that episode I haven't encountered anything about sugar in gas or slashed tires. Of course maybe they just target the trucks with trailers?

"you can always beat the keeper, but you can never beat the post"

There are only three things in life that are certain : death, taxes, and the wind blowing at Capps Creek!

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 Still downstream.

  After a phone call and some coaxing from @curtisce Tuesday evening the decision was made to head over to the spring river for recon. We did not really figure to be there early. Greeted at the ramp with 13 vehicles parked with empty trailers. We launched the jet and made decision to go upstream. There we seen a half dozen others trying the same. No hits and no other fish landed as far as we could tell. WT 47. Others started filtering out as we did after a good try.  Headed down again by ramp with more trying. All you have to do Is look for boats gathering to find the fish. Curt and I were using fly gear and this proved to be a challenge in the deeper water. Both using sink tips. Everyone fishing around 15 foot of water a bit more or less. I ran a single clouser and Curt running tandem clousers. Curt struck the first two. It took awhile but I fell into my groove finally. You had to be on the bottom. Throw out, swing the fly letting it sink then retrieve back to boat from directly down stream. Hot color for us was a firetiger I tye. Out of the mix of fish I tallied there was five hybrid and two crappie plus whites. One crappie was a 12 incher. Combined mid forty or less caught. I call the day a good trip considering what we did for deeper fish. My best day fishing deep with fly gear. Pulled out about 2:30 with WT 49 degrees. It's going to get better. A couple more weeks looking forward to thinner faster water to fish for them. 

. I was throwing a 7wt with Rio predator elite S5 S7 line Curt a 7 full sink. I only lost one fly and I don't think Curt any. Pretty clean bottom. Lots of spin fisherpeople throwing towards the bank with brush. We stayed deeper.

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"We have met the enemy and it is us",

Pogo

   If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend"

Lefty Kreh

    " Never display your knowledge, you only share it"

Lefty Kreh

         "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!"

BilletHead

    " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting"

BilletHead

  P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs"

BilletHead

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Glad you found them and got into some! I seriously thought about going down there after work on Tuesday but decided against it. Kind of glad I did now since I would have been upstream from the bridge just getting my line wet for nothing!  lol You are right though, in a couple more weeks it should be pretty good.

"you can always beat the keeper, but you can never beat the post"

There are only three things in life that are certain : death, taxes, and the wind blowing at Capps Creek!

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1 hour ago, Bgctrading said:

I went today got 50 in 3 hours. They are on bottom and reel SLOW.

          Still deep by the dock houses?

"We have met the enemy and it is us",

Pogo

   If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend"

Lefty Kreh

    " Never display your knowledge, you only share it"

Lefty Kreh

         "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!"

BilletHead

    " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting"

BilletHead

  P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs"

BilletHead

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