Garner with a nice Hooch Brown
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Chattahoochee 08-20-11
Fished a few hours above Abbotts bridge. The fog is still pretty dense up until around lunch time. Boaters be careful out there in this dense fog. The day started out great with a nice brown trout on a #18 sowbug variation. Around lunch the fish were rising everywhere to small midges. Started catching a lot on tiny emerger patterns, then switched to a Griffith’s knat. The water was low and very clear was using 6x fluro all day.
Cumberland River
Spent the past few days up on the Cumberland fishing. The water definately looked better from the last trip I had up there. The COE has got the lake down around the 682 ft mark, so the heavy generation is gone for now. The fishing was ok, no really big fish. Caught one brown around the 16″ mark. Caught a few brook trout which was cool. Had a blast up by the dam catching stripers on the 6wt. The stripers were on fire late in the evening up there. Had a fish on every other cast. Biggest striper was around 8-9 lbs. , most of the stripers were small around a 1lb or so. Hopefully the lake level will stay down so we can enjoy some fall fishing here in a couple of months.
New Ride!
Just got a G3 1652 with a Mercury 60/40 jet a couple of weeks ago. I have had the boat out a few times on the Hooch and very happy with the performance. I plan on customizing the layout with adding a floor and some oars. This boat can run in some really skinny water!
Running boat on the Hooch
Running boat on Hooch
Chattahoochee River
Garner Reid and I fished above Abbotts bridge today and wore them out on nymphs. This is a picture of one of many nice fish brought to hand today.
Chattahoochee above Abbotts Bridge
The fish were on fire all day. Fished solo and took out the River Hawk for a change of pace. The river is starting to look really good!
Saltwater Trips
Have not posted anything in awhile. I have been spending a lot of time down in Savannah doing the saltwater thing. I also spent a few days down in Pine Island, FL catching redfish and snook. I was on the Hooch this past Saturday around Jones Bridge and the trout are really starting to turn on, even brought a few to hand on dries. If only these storms would let up and allow us to fish. Be on the look out for reports on the Hooch.
Delayed Harvest Float
Fished the delayed harvest for a few hours today. Floated from just above 75 bridge to Paces. We caught around 30 fish. Most all fish came on a custom olive wooly bugger that I have been tying up. It was cold with the wind whipping. Looking forward to a little warmer weather.
See ya on the river.
Chattahoochee Delayed Harvest Float
Floated from Johnson Ferry to Paces today. Water was off color pretty bad from the snow melt. We picked up around 20 or so fish all on streamers. My buddy pick up a nice brown just below Whitewater. The ramp at Paces this morning was still pretty iced over, but turned to slush before we took out this evening. Great day on the river.
Hooch Brown
