My Fishing Reports
7/28- 5 pm - Whitewater Creek - Breezy. Fished rr bridge on river first - three spots on sinking line w/ clouser around pilings - no topwater action on rip-rap. Moved up creek - only scattered schooling at mouth of creek - more fishermen than fish. Up Turkey Creek to long point - two largemouth, 16" & 19", still w/sinking line at about 20'. Saw schooling hybrid w/ bait pushed all the way top back of cove - no time to change line - caught 8 before they left town. Back to creek mouth to check - about the same, 1/2 dozen boats, few fish. Up Whitewater Creek to long shoal - fished sinker for a while and changed to popper as scattered hybrid and spots started to come up over channel. Caught a few small fish, and then about 8:45 fairly large school came up and stayed - caught hybrid on virtually every cast, not counting one 17" largemouth who had crashed this "shad party". At nine they were gone - fun while it lasted.
7/28- 7 pm - Whitewater Creek - this report I hate to give, but... Went out late w/friend. He outfished me 10-0 with white roostertail vs my fly rod (Fishing is not a competitive sport!). Of course, we were in his boat and he's a master at positioning it - tho it has to be mentioned, I did put him on the fish. Anyhow, we fished WW mouth (no schooling there) then moved up Turkey Creek and found small hybrid schooling in shallow inlet where he nailed `em w/ roostertail.
7/28- 5:30 am - River @ RR and Whitewater Creek - beautiful out here before daylight - caught 2 largemouth (15-16") off WW boat ramp before launching by moonlight. Moved to rip rap at RR bridge - caught several small spots, some swirling bait on top. Back up WW & Turkey Creek - took nice LM of boat dock on white popper. Then found small hybrid schools in shallows (nothing like 24th, unfortunately). For a change of pace and some shade, moved to cove and tied on longer tippet and trout flies, and caught brim like crazy - almost had forgotten how much fun they are - may be small, but when the fly lands they take like a 20 lb. snook!
7/24- 6 pm - River @ RR and Whitewater Creek - weather still a bit unsettled after hurricane passed through. Fished rip-rap at railroad bridge - lots of shad around - caught 2 largemouth & 1 spot chasing bait on top. Moved up to mouth of WW Creek about 7:30 and hybrid were busting top bigtime - good sized fish (14-18") that stayed up on top in larger schools. Best i've seen it this year - caught a bunch, plus 2 nice largemouth who crashed the party. Caught em til right at dark in same general spot. Maybe the hurricane season has got them started - let's hope so.
7/20 - 4:15am - Yellow Jacket Creek - full moon out, almost like daylight (or even better). Took 3 largemouth almost right at ramp - 18"+ beside dock, 16" on right ramp, and 17" off left ramp. Moved to rip-rap and took another 16" (all on white foam popper). I love fishing in the dark - casting the fly line by sound & feel, working fly, and then hearing the fish (taking your popper?), then strip-setting the hook and finding that yes! he did take your fly.
At first light moved to cove mouth and took several spots and nice LM casting to surface swirls. Then down to mouth of Yellow Jacket to surface schooling spots - they're small, but lots of fun. Whites & hybrid are usually here by this time of year, but haven't seen them yet.
7/3-7/5 - Chattooga River - Camped couple miles south of Burrells Ford, just north of gorge - surprisingly little traffic for holiday weekend. Never fished this section much as I normally go north from ford. River low and clear - caught browns and many rainbow to 13". Browns mainly on #12 yellow wooly worm and tan emerger, tho' one nailed #14 elkhair caddis. Took rainbows on both flys - my experience generally is fish here are not especially selective, and if you get the fly to them, they'll take. Bigger fish from deep runs mainly, but a couple, including fat brown, from shallow, undercut bank.This is great summertime fishing.
About ten Friday morn, I was back in camp fixing a breakfast of coffee, trout and English muffins (a hat tip to our flyfishing heritage, huh) when a huge doe slid down the bank into the river about 20 yards above my camp and forded across right in front of me. I was downwind, so my fire didn't bother her. She waded and swam nonchalantly over to a huge boulder on the other side and scrambled out and up the mountain. Deer aren't especially pretty here in West Georgia as we normally see them in our flowers or our headlights (or on the roadside after meeting someone's car), but in country like this they are beautiful. I can still hear her hooves on the rock.
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