Thread: Greers Ferry is whipping me

Thanks. I've given up on the trout. To watch them just ignore everything from trout magnets, minnow looking soft plastics, the trout marshmallows, and a rooster tail, just made me realize they aren't for me. They're also 35 mins from where we are staying and I can be in the water under 10 mins.

Tomorrow will be jug fishing and drowning minnows for crappie. I'm going to try a minnow tipped jig behind a 2 ounce bottom bouncer for the ones hugging the bottom. Otherwise, I'll use 1 ounce torpedo weights with jigs or cranks.

Congrats Greer's Ferry, you've won.

They say that success is when preparation meets opportunity. I prepared for this trip. I was prepared to catch fish as deep as 20', perhaps 30. The opportunity was 35-70 feet.

I couldn't even find shad in less than. 20 feet. There are areas that are less than 20 feet, but I couldn't find fish in less than 30+. It's the darnedest thing I've ever seen. Normally on lakes 70-100 feet, a lot of the fish stay shallow, but I just couldn't find any groups of fish at depths I'm comfortable with. I had a good plan for today but launched into nasty wind on the other end of the lake.

Total for 5 days on the water -- 2 catfish, 3 under limit largemouth.

I did get comfortable with methods I don't prefer, such as trolling.

"That's why they call it fishing instead of catching"... But I wanted to CATCH!

They don't call it the dead Sea for nothing!!

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The clear water conditions for that body of water can make it very difficult for sure. Like I said, I haven't fished the lake since about 1983, and then we trolled crankbaits that would dive to about 15 feet and caught a mixed bag of walleye, bass, and crappie. I hate trolling, but that did catch us some fish. As for the trout, sight fishing is very difficult as they are extremely wary if they can see you. I have caught some on dry flies there that way, but I had to approach them from down stream and make at least 60 foot casts - and the fly had to resemble what they were feeding on. On the surface of that river it has generally been little blue winged olive may flies (size 20), or the very occasional brown caddis (size 16). However, most of the trout are bottom oriented with the predominant food being sow bugs (which is also the most popular nymph type fly by far). Bouncing a bait along the bottom will almost always work for the stocked rainbows.

Are you still there Smoopie?

No, I'm back home now.

Originally Posted by LowePro

Are you still there Smoopie?