No fishing?

Sounds like the cabin fever will last longer. Taylorsville is a mess like most lakes I suspect be. More rain and storms for saturday.

ACE report shows Taylorsville its 15+ feet over winter pool and rising. River is 19 ft may crest at 24 or so. So much for late winter fishing.

May be spring before stable conditions appear. I was hoping to use the last week of my fishing license but it's expired now.

Cursed rain!!! I should be on Rough tearing up the hybrids right now, but noooooo....its the Willey Wonka Chocolate River! :D

-Rich

I've actually had some GREAT fishing on Taylorsville after a rain where it was up around 6-8 ft but there was a lot of debris and I was afraid my water pump was gonna get nailed. Went back a few days later and it had risen another 6-8 ft and it had killed the fishing. The spot I was heading to..Van Buren, was completely inaccessible b/c of debris. I saw a pontoon brave it and 3 hours later he was getting towed back...water pump took a dump on him.

I went to Rough River yesterday and it was mud soup back up in tulles creeks but on the way out we found some stripers feeding on shad and picked up a few small ones.We mostly fished for crappie and bass but never caught the first 1. The stripers I did find on my new Humminbird 596c HD were mainly in the creek channels coming out of tulles creek going back to axtel and were holding in 15' of water.. Water temps were from 48 to 54 F .. The water was real merky even out towards the main lake water clarity was from 1 inch to 4 inches any were i went.. The stripes may be hitting better on the main lake close to the dam..
If you go there this week end watch for floaters man they are every were I watched this big cruiser boat go fling down the river and I could here him hitting logs a half mile away

Rob went the day before ( Tuesday) and his new Yamaha motor ( 18 hours on it) water pump took a dump on him and he had to paddle 2 miles back to the ramp. He said there was aluminum cans by the thousands floating on the water.

[QUOTE=KYCatfish;443926]I've actually had some GREAT fishing on Taylorsville after a rain where it was up around 6-8 ft but there was a lot of debris and I was afraid my water pump was gonna get nailed. Went back a few days later and it had risen another 6-8 ft and it had killed the fishing. The spot I was heading to..Van Buren, was completely inaccessible b/c of debris. I saw a pontoon brave it and 3 hours later he was getting towed back...water pump took a dump on him.[/QUOTE]

I can see fishing with Taylorsville up 6 ft over winter pool... but it's 17 ft over pool today and still rising some. River is no better, lock 4 at 18 feet super fast current with not only muddy conditions but drift is thick. Good news is that Elkhorn creek is coming down, so the river could drop as fast as it came up if we don't get anothe 3-5 inches of rain over the entire basin.