Yep, own a jet and am on the river about 3-5 times a week. Didn't mean any disrespect, but with a screen name like fish4food I ain't in no hurry to help ya out on a body of water I hold near and dear to my heart.

I have seen that river in the high of it's glory and chest deep in cold ass water dipping out dead fish from the kill. I don't remember seeing any guides out there helping haul off the tons of fish that were killed by Guide Corp. Actualy, I don't remember seeing a lot of fishermen period. Most who volunteered lived on the river. Now that the river has been restocked and on it's way back to some resemblance of what it used to be many years ago guides are popping up a dime a dozen to fill their pockets from everyone else's hard work.

They're is a site for Indiana Smallies and a lot of the guys fish nothing but moving water. If you are catch and release you can learn a lot from these guys. An added bonus is, once ya get to know some of them flowing water smallies are your oyster. I have traveled from one end of this state to the other chasing smallies and through the guys I met on the smallie site, I have never paid for a motel, I have rarely not been fed by hospitable host. I have been shown some of the best smallmouth water a man could ever imagine.

Showing respect for your resource will get much farther than jumping on some message board and just asking every fishermen within keyboards reach to tell ya where their honey holes are that they worked years to find.

If your a sincere catch and release fisherman, send me an e-mail and I will point you in the right direction if it is smallies you seek. If your not ethical or C&R, don't bother typing. And to partialy answer your question sorta, yeah I have sunk my boat before. I think they're is more JB Weld than aluminum left on the bottom. You hit enough rocks bad things happen.

Other than the occasional Tuesday nighter @ Geist you couldn't give me 5 new boats to go back fishing the overcrowded lakes in Indiana. Some of the places I go on the river your lucky to see 1 or 2 people and entire weekend. Get near the public access areas and it is loaded with people, mainly Julio and his buddy's with their buckets keeping any and every fish they catch.


Ray Rigby