Falls of the Ohio

[WacoWildcat]

What is the falls of the Ohio? I've fished up in the area and don't recall any waterfalls. I am up to try any new fishing area especially if it's close. Please inform me.

[birdstrike]

Not really falls anymore, thanks to a couple of dams and a barge lock. It is the area or the river near the Falls of the Ohio interpretive center just off I65 in Indiana. Or at least that is the best way to access the area. I would love to see some pictures of what it looked like before the river was dammed up. Neat place to explore when the water is low.

[artcarney_agr]

It's a great place to catch a large variety of fish! As stated above, the best access is to park by the train bridge just before you get to the interpretive center. There's a well beaten path that leads to the best fishing area. I've caught sauger, white bass, stripers, catfish, and drum regularly in the area. Your best bet it to use some small white curly tail jigs and you'll catch about anything down there. The catfish I've caught down there were all foul hooked, mainly because there's so many of them down there! It a lot of fun! Don't be scared to get too close to the dam.....that's where they hang out at!

[mastin03]

As previously stated....the falls really arent falls at all. In fact they were (before the river was dammed) the only unpassable stretch of the Ohio by boat. The elevation of the river drops something like 30 feet in a couple miles. So the "falls" are pretty much just a steep section of the Ohio right here in L'ville.

[WacoWildcat]

Thanks for the info guys. I think I will mapquest it and try to figure out where to go. Is it best from the bank or from a boat? Is it good any time of the year or just now?

[artcarney_agr]

Shoot, I didn't really explore it until last summer. I went down there one evening and piddled around, and then mainly just watched what people were doing. The next day I went back, a little more prepared, and had a ball catching fish! I ended up fishing every evening of that week! I'd say it's good anytime of year. That dam is a natural obstruction in which fish cannot pass, so they just hang out there in the white water. Probably the most difficult decision is how to rig......you can rig light for curly tail jigs for the sauger and white bass, or you can go heavy with 20lb test and sling swim baits for stripers and catfish......only problem with going light is that you always end up hooking a monster that you just can't beat with light line! It's a reallly great place to fish, and with it being so close to town it just seems weird too!

[riverrat12]

SSSSHHHHHH,don't tell everybody...This is my hole lol...Bottom line from the ville or Lagrange,where Im at nolin,rough,green,2 hour . THE BIG C 2 1/2 hours+ Dale 3 andKY and barkley well dang WK parkway is long!!! The falls= My back yard...And I'll go out on a limb here and say all that fishin time lost traveling= to 1 extra day fishin at the falls and you will catch more fish with alittle practice...sometimes its just one fish that make your extra day/year!!Had a few..Hey Art you ever see a long blond haired dude down there ????It's me...chuck FnF ...Fish iN the Falls

[artcarney_agr]

I think I just might have seen you down there!