08-23-2004, 01:59 PM
Fishing success was slow to fair. Started fishing the dam approximately at 10 am and my partner and I hooked onto a few perch right away. After 5 perch were caught between the two of us, bites stopped. I took this time to bring out my pontoon so I could get a bit deeper and out there more. Just then the rain gods kicked in and we got dumped on for about 40 minutes. I went out approximately 300 feet from the dam and started using some spinners to try and trigger some bites. Nothing.
We packed up the pontoon (approximately 2 PM) and moved down to the mid-south end and fished some areas that had cover as well as some rocky areas with depth change. Right away my partner hooked into a dink smallmouth. Had several bites between 5-8 PM but did not land anything til around 9 PM when I caught a 16 inch Rainbow sinking a worm. Then we called it quits.
Overall the time spent fishing was slow. We tried everything from worms, to grubs, to Rapalas, to spinners with very little success. Success was brought from a make-shift carolina rig, 2 foot leader and a 2 inch piece of worm on the end.
Photo below of a rainbow above Rockport just after the rain.
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We packed up the pontoon (approximately 2 PM) and moved down to the mid-south end and fished some areas that had cover as well as some rocky areas with depth change. Right away my partner hooked into a dink smallmouth. Had several bites between 5-8 PM but did not land anything til around 9 PM when I caught a 16 inch Rainbow sinking a worm. Then we called it quits.
Overall the time spent fishing was slow. We tried everything from worms, to grubs, to Rapalas, to spinners with very little success. Success was brought from a make-shift carolina rig, 2 foot leader and a 2 inch piece of worm on the end.
Photo below of a rainbow above Rockport just after the rain.
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