To the point to where I have left them alone for awhile......good post man.Originally Posted by jcb
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To the point to where I have left them alone for awhile......good post man.
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When the creek is low i always have great luck above the dams for catfishing but as for bass i find any riffle with rock around it and bounce a small paca chunk on a regular jig head about 1/16 ounce and wear them out also another trick when wading elkhorn i always keep a 1/8 ounce buzz bait handy and a rebel pop r but one of the best baits to use this time of year is a bitsy tube with just a bronze bait holder hook on the insode of it and just toss it near wood and twitch it like a fluke ive slayed the fish doing that trick but the parts i wade is down below great crossings and from 25 dam in georgetown down to behind the colony which is a good half to full day wade
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Floated the "Whitewater" section of Elkhorn early this month. Water was very low and I had to get out and float my kayak through almost every single riffle. Only caught 6 average bass, but I honestly didn't have a whole lot of time to fish. Had to keep moving. Water was very clear. I did see some very nice smallmouth. Some huge drum also. A 4 ft. Gar came out of nowhere and grabbed a bass I was reeling in. I lost that battle, but did salvage the topwater lure I was using. Very exciting for a few moments! An exhausting but beautiful and rewarding trip. I now have paddled all of the Elkhorn from the forks to the Ky River. I eventually want to paddle all of the section between Georgetown and the Forks.
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As far as i know the only trully shallow spot is down below robinson dam in gtown anf a few spots behind cardome and the colony but that stretch of the creek if you wanna fish it the trick is small paca chunks and bitsy tubes rigged weightless and drifted with a jig head
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If you're going to wade with it this hot/low/clear...you better be as quiet as possible. The fish will hear you coming from a good clip. I like to try to stay on the bank as much as I can, and I like making LONG BOMB casts with stuff like big topwater plugs.
When it gets this low though, I tend to leave them alone as a couple others have said. Hard to fish ankle deep water with anything other than topwater, really.
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Perfect time for wading, or at least it has been in the Franklin Co. area of the main creek. Fished smallies there for the last few weekends and a usual day spent there has typically been netting 20 fish on fly tackle. Most of those are in the 7-11 inch range with usually two to three a day in the 12-16" slot. Water had been pretty clear until this weekend due to the rains but the fish were biting well. Water levels being low have definitely been good for the wading fisherman. Good luck out there if you go.
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How on earth did u get away with wading in frankfort i waded up to the dam a few years back had the best small mouth fishing day in my life also got swamped by the state boys and sheriffs saying i was trespassing and i was fishing with a kdwfr worker who works at the mollusk conservation center and they still ran us off and we was in the middle of the creek that town has some of the stupidest rules ive ever heard of when it comes to wading
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Check again... Those rules have been changed to reflect that since Elkhorn Creek is deemed to be a navigable waterway and your entry point into the creek is legal (VPA or permissible private property) a Franklin co judge has ruled that you are perfectly legal in your fishing practice of wading the creek wherever you wish, so long as you stay in the ceek. So while it used to be crazy for waders... that has since changed. Here is an article I found on that in a magazine. http://southsidermagazine.com/2013/1...r-strike-zone/
Just scroll down to Elkhorn and the Note section there.
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Hey,
Waded Saturday,6:00 AM till 11:00AM.Only caught one,but it was a nice,healthy 15 inch smallmouth,caught and released unharmed on a good old wacky rigged Senko worm.That made the whole trip worthwhile.The fish seemed active to me-I saw some hogs jump.I also tried tubes and a small blue topwater Rapala.The water was low and clear ,so I probably was spooking the fish.I've been using 8 Lb braid with an 8 Lb fluorocarbon leader and it seems like I can't cast the braid as far.Also,I didn't cover a lot of water because I didn't want to stray too far from the VPA where I started because I wasn't sure about the trespassing laws and how they apply to waders.So I never fished near any ripples etc.Anyway,Thanks to all of you for your advice and information.
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Good deal bud! Glad to hear ya got a good one. From what I have seen in about a total of 5 weeks within 2 months though... you are very permitted to go where you would like. Nice to see another here though that seems to want to follow laws rather than what you would like the law to be. Hats off for that! As far as what is legal and what is not... all I can tell you is that I have Never seen a warden even when I wish I had. I've seen many that were disrespectful of a beautiful fishery, and I wish more would adhere to this: Clean up the trash you see on the creek, take only what is legal and take your own trash home and come back the next week to something better than how you left it. (My wife and I typically take a trashbag scpecifically for others trash.)
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I never ever go above 6 lb on elkhorn even carp fishing lol what am i saying i dont go above 6 lb line anywere anytime of the year
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I know one thing that needs to happen bad on that creek. They need to get some CO's down there and check some **** stringers. Some of the Hilljacks I see down there keep everything they catch and have no idea what a slot limit is and don't give a crap either. I questioned two of them in a canoe when they were bragging about their stringer. One held it up and said mostly Redeye on there......................Uhh no you have a crap ton of baby smallmouth on there bud did you guys know thats illegal in this creek. They had slot fish on that stringer to. I have read the rules and it does not state you can keep under 12 inch bass anywhere in the state unless I am reading it wrong or of course unless they are Kentucky spotted bass.
They couldn't have cared less. When I caught and released a very nice largehead in front of them, I hear...'' MAN thats a goodun..............dang man you are letting that fish go''............I say ''I never keep bass out of this creek because I want to keep it strong hopefully forever''.............They laugh at me and and go on clunking down the creek keeping every 6 inch smallmouth they caught......I wish I would have had a grenade...............Frickin non caring act like their starving or something Hilljacks....it pisses me off.
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