Well, our annual CL/CR fishing trip was a great success! Thanks to those who helped with some last minute information...always appreciated. We found EXCELLENT striper jump fishing between Jamestown and the mouth of Beaver....mornings and evenings. The fish seemed to migrate more towards the mouth of Beaver with each cooler day. On our last day, they were right in the mouth of Beaver. We limited out all three days within 30 minutes! It was incredible! Some of the jumps were MASSIVE...covering 100yds and lasting a long time. Fish were aggressively hitting our 1/2oz bucktails white/chart w/white grub trailer. We also picked up some nice keeper smallies while casting bucktails in the jumps. My father-in-laws depth finder doesn't produce an accurate water temp, so I have no report there. The water was nice and the weather did get a little frigid near the end of our trip.
As for the CR...we had great success fly fishing at the Hatchery Creek/CR convergence. Yellow glow bugs and bh zebra midges were the ticket there, as well as a #24 griffiths gnat. I caught a 20" brown, full of eggs, on the fly rod....what a fight!
That fish made the trip for me. She was released to do her thing...
. Lots of 10-14" inch rainbows, one 2lb smallie (first one I have ever caught in the CR), lots of skipjacks, a couple sauger, some white bass, bluegills, and a walleye.....quite the multi-specie trip to the CR! Good times with good friends...until next year!
Oh yeah...as soon as I figure out how to take the pics off my cell phone...I'll post some pics.
-Rich