JORDANELLE RESERVOIR
Over the years I have avoided the nelle, mainly for the consumption advisorys that are posted for the SMB's and Brown Trout. Utgolf wanted to see what the fish were up to in that lake, so a bright and early (5:15am) trip was planned. When we got the lake we found 3 spear fisherman that had good things to say about Deer Creek. We parted from the friendly guys and made haste for the water. There was tons of good structure, just no hungery bass......well at least for what we were throwing.
Tried flies, spinnerbaits, crawdad plastics, senkos...all gave no love. Finally I switched to a 2 inch Yellow Perch swimbait made by Storm. Got several small bass till I lost the swimbait on a snag. I switched to a CD 7 Yellow Perch Rapala and got more bass to hand, no of which were over 13 inches.
On our way to the inlet we tried everywhere else, with no luck. Just before calling it quits we stopped by the spear fishing trio....apparently they got a few dinks and a 17 incher. They told us they saw lots of small bass and tons of 1-4inch yellow perch hugging the bottom in 14 feet of water. Good to know!
DEER CREEK
Went to DC to see what we could get. I lost a good sized SMB on a large purple fly and just as we were about to leave, Utgolf scored a nice sized (for DC anyway) Largemouth. Of interest notice that his username is printed on his shirt.....when do I get me a shirt like that?
Over the years I have avoided the nelle, mainly for the consumption advisorys that are posted for the SMB's and Brown Trout. Utgolf wanted to see what the fish were up to in that lake, so a bright and early (5:15am) trip was planned. When we got the lake we found 3 spear fisherman that had good things to say about Deer Creek. We parted from the friendly guys and made haste for the water. There was tons of good structure, just no hungery bass......well at least for what we were throwing.
Tried flies, spinnerbaits, crawdad plastics, senkos...all gave no love. Finally I switched to a 2 inch Yellow Perch swimbait made by Storm. Got several small bass till I lost the swimbait on a snag. I switched to a CD 7 Yellow Perch Rapala and got more bass to hand, no of which were over 13 inches.
On our way to the inlet we tried everywhere else, with no luck. Just before calling it quits we stopped by the spear fishing trio....apparently they got a few dinks and a 17 incher. They told us they saw lots of small bass and tons of 1-4inch yellow perch hugging the bottom in 14 feet of water. Good to know!
DEER CREEK
Went to DC to see what we could get. I lost a good sized SMB on a large purple fly and just as we were about to leave, Utgolf scored a nice sized (for DC anyway) Largemouth. Of interest notice that his username is printed on his shirt.....when do I get me a shirt like that?