Acton 9/4 & Rush Run 9/5

Crappie fishing continues to be slow at Acton, although it's picking up some from what it was mid-August. Most caught were small, but Doug boated one 11 1/2 incher. They were hitting a black and bright green tube tipped with a minnow, but we didn't catch any on a deadlined minnow. Lots of crappie are still hanging right on the edge of the drop off along the west side of the lake south of the Sugar Camp. Water temp was 76. We saw some nice bass taken out of the weedbed at Sugar Camp.

We went to Rush Run Sunday evening to fish for bluegill using flys tipped with waxies or white crappie nibbles and pulled a couple of dozen out of the timber. Visiblity is to about three feet, so jigs or bait need to be dropped well down to hit the strike zone. Most were in the clumps of trees in the middle of the old creek beds where there's good current. Water temp was 81. I also picked up a small bass on a fly and we overheard someone say he caught some crappie on waxies. Crappie are few and far between at Rush Run. - Roberta

Has the water temp started to drop @ Acton with the past several cool nights? At what temp will they head for the shallow water?

We had so many nasty cold fronts in August with highs only in the sixties, that water temps were in the low seventies, but the warm spel lwe had last week brought it back up a little. It's been cool the last couple of nights with predicted lows inthe fifties for the rest of the week,so I expect to see another drop when we head out on Saturday.

Right now, we're finding plenty of fish from 5 to 8 feet deep in 14 feet of water along the west side of the channel, but the only ones we've caught so far in less than ten feet of water have been dinks, even early in the day. There was a huge shad spawn again this year and we think that may have contributed to the slow bite. = Roberta