Fishing News - 3/3/03
Lake Weiss Fishing Report
DATE: 3-3-04
LAKE LEVEL: 564.9
NORMAL FULL POOL: 564.0
SURFACE TEMP: 51 2 foot down on top is 47
SURFACE TEMP: 51 2 foot down on top is 47
WATER CLARITY: some places good, some places not
so good.
Lets talk about where you can fish and what to
expect:
Up river, Trotters is not bad, Dead Boy fishable,
Waterhouse ? I haven't been in there.
Godfrey's Island the nicest water on the whole
lake.
Three Mile Creek beautiful. Cowan & Spring,
parts of it fishable and parts not.
Little River Nice, Chatooga is a bit rough, Yellow
Creek is nice, Crazy Woman most of it is good. The noses, part of them good
but part not so good. Sailboat is fishable, Ransom is fishable, Anderson is
kinda-sorta, Churchouse is fishable in the back end, Tucker is kinda-sorta,
and Powerhouse, right side fishable. Bay Springs is pretty good.
CRAPPIE: Catching a lot of fish. A few good ones.
A lot of short ones. Yesterday I was trolling 1 1/32, we caught suspended fish
2 foot deep in 16 feet of water. The color yesterday was triple blue and
blue/green/blue. I was a cloudy, windy day. Today I went into Bay Springs and
the suspended in the am at 8-11 feet in 17-20 foot of water. By mid morning
they had moved up to 5-6 feet in the same water. We were pulling am 1 1/16th
trolling at about 1.0.Mid morning we were trolling 2 1/32 at 1.4 to 1.5.Early
we were using blue/green/blue, as the fish moved up it turned out to be
green/green/green and bubble gum. Lake still high and mid channel still
rolling mud. Watch out for the stumps and trees floating.
BASS: Bass fishing is slow but some can be taken
off rip-rap adjacent to deep water. Crawdad Pig-n-Jig still working. Broke
tail Shad-Rap.
STRIPE: We have picked up 1 or 2 in the mouth of
Churchouse trolling for crappie. We have a lot of birds but with the cold
weather we have had a small shad kill and they are cleaning up the easy ones.
It won't be long and they will run out of these fish and they will have to
start diving on stripe. Once the channel clears and they slow down some of the
pulling they should go back to their old haunts.
WHITE BASS: Some in the back end of Dead Boy. I
haven't been in Waterhouse but I bet they are in there too. Small jigs and
minnows work well. The birds will be diving some in both those places but it
will probably be white bass and not stripe.
CATFISH: For you catfish fishermen the best place
for you to catch big ones (20-40)lbs is any fish cleaning station. I will name
them for you. JR's, Riverside, Pruett's(wherever Johnny is dumping the
carcasses,) Bay Springs.
I am going to talk a little bit about Neely Henry:
Schoal Creek is dingy, bridge creek dingy, otter
dingy, beaver creek half is fishable other is not. Greens creek dingy. Canoe
Creek is dingy. Some of the smaller coves are clearing rapidly. Techniques we
use on Weiss Lake will work on Neely Henry. Crappie are going to be suspended
in the mouths of most of the coves and creeks. As the day goes on they will
move back shallower. If you cannot see them on your depth finder it could be
one of four things. 1.Fish aren't there. But you cannot take that for granted.
You have to fish it anyway.2. they may be so shallow you cannot see them on
your depth finder or they may be right on the bottom and you still cannot see
them. 3.You may have a piece of junk as a depth finder, may find depth OK but
just doesn't see fish.4.Before you leave the lake, check the surface temp in
the front of the cove and in the back of the cove. Fish the warmest water you
can find. Best color for jigs is triple blue, triple green, and bubble gum.
Be careful out there. Weiss is over pool with a
lot of trees and trash floating and so does Neely Henry.
Sincerely, Steve
www.lakeweissguideservice.com 256-927-6617
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