5-4-08 Fox River and a Fox creek
Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 7:34 am
Got out Sunday morning at sunrise knowing the high skies would make for tough fishing and I was right. Picked up 4 smallies, two just over 16 inches, a walleye, largemouth and a crappie.
Went to the creek first only to find hordes of quillback carp suckers heading up stream. Their pointed quills sticking out of the shallow riffles like shark fins. Till the migrations of carp, suckers and quillbacks end, smallies will be hard to come by. The migrations should end soon.
On the Fox next along a wall and a natural shoreline. All fish came tight to the wall, on a current seam or in quiet pools. Cast down stream. let your lure get close to shore or seams and very slowly reel back in.
I know how fast and how hard 3200 cubic feet a second can push you around, but I forgot how deep that is. Now I remember. I still stand by a simple fact, if you don't know the water you're stepping into, then don't step in the water. More rain this week, so even though it's dropping, watch the levels before going in the water this coming weekend.
Went to the creek first only to find hordes of quillback carp suckers heading up stream. Their pointed quills sticking out of the shallow riffles like shark fins. Till the migrations of carp, suckers and quillbacks end, smallies will be hard to come by. The migrations should end soon.
On the Fox next along a wall and a natural shoreline. All fish came tight to the wall, on a current seam or in quiet pools. Cast down stream. let your lure get close to shore or seams and very slowly reel back in.
I know how fast and how hard 3200 cubic feet a second can push you around, but I forgot how deep that is. Now I remember. I still stand by a simple fact, if you don't know the water you're stepping into, then don't step in the water. More rain this week, so even though it's dropping, watch the levels before going in the water this coming weekend.