Cumberland River

[Chubminnow]

striper? - that would be some serious fun in a float tube.
skipjack?

Are you kidding? You'd find yourself somewhere's down stream of Nashville if you ever hooked into one of those monsters in a float tube. But what a ride it would be!

[FishFry]

We saw someone catch or boated ourselves a largemouth (a 3 incher), a few white bass, many rainbows, some browns, a nice keeper crappie, small bluegill, a nice channel catfish (a 6 lber), and a walleye, lots caught on nightcrawlers and powerbait (yellow superdough with the stripper glitter that you will get all over the place). Also tried cranks and in line spinners with a little luck on blue fox spinners.

[Lowerider]

Don't forget Carp!

-Rich

I'll never forget the trip I mistakenly took a giant school of spawning carp as a school of striper. I about wet myself coming down river thinking I was headed for PAYDAY. They were in a run exploding everywhere and when 3 to 4 of them stick together like they do they look like one giant 50+ pound fish under the water. Talk about going from Happy to SAD real quick...lol.

Aside from all the fish already listed in this post I can add smallmouth to the list. A 2.5 pounder ate a 10 inch sucker I was pulling on a board down around Cloyds Landing a few years back. I've never caught crappie/largemouth/catfish out of the river before. I think the warmer water brings up all kinds of species.

[troutcrazy]

We took a guy who asked are there any largemouth in the CR? I said..."No". First fish he caught was a largemouth. So my large mouth was full of foot!

[BurleyDog]

It was tough out on the ol Cumberland this weekend. Floated from the dam to Winfreys Ferry (about 18 miles I think). I caught 40 trout and my two friends caught 20 each. The biggest of the day was a 19" brown that was pretty fat.

Did best on fly fishing gear, especially zebra midges.

Also caught a bonus big ol 14 inch crappie.

[troutcrazy]

It was tough out on the ol Cumberland this weekend. Floated from the dam to Winfreys Ferry (about 18 miles I think). I caught 40 trout and my two friends caught 20 each. The biggest of the day was a 19" brown that was pretty fat.

Did best on fly fishing gear, especially zebra midges.

Also caught a bonus big ol 14 inch crappie.

That's a little over 4 per mile...that's not too bad

[GeoFisher]

It was tough out on the ol Cumberland this weekend. Floated from the dam to Winfreys Ferry (about 18 miles I think). I caught 40 trout and my two friends caught 20 each. The biggest of the day was a 19" brown that was pretty fat.

Did best on fly fishing gear, especially zebra midges.

Also caught a bonus big ol 14 inch crappie.

If you had to.......could you paddle back up the ole river?

Later,

Geo

[flyfish]

80 trout is nothing to complain about!

[BurleyDog]

Not complaining about 80 trout. But I have had days of over 80 per person.

No way could you paddle up it in my opinion. Too swift and too far, even for a two mile stretch.

I used Julio's shuttle service and have no complaints.

[RICHYD4U]

It was tough out on the ol Cumberland this weekend. Floated from the dam to Winfreys Ferry (about 18 miles I think). I caught 40 trout and my two friends caught 20 each. The biggest of the day was a 19" brown that was pretty fat.

Did best on fly fishing gear, especially zebra midges.

Also caught a bonus big ol 14 inch crappie.

BurleyDog-
Glad to hear that the fly was producing. You can't beat zebra midges on the CR, great all round fly. I've also had great success with a #20BH copperjohn, you might want to give that a try next time too. Works well when they are a little bit fidgety. Thanks for the report!

Can't wait for October on the CR! Should be good this year!

-Rich

[GeoFisher]

Not complaining about 80 trout. But I have had days of over 80 per person.

No way could you paddle up it in my opinion. Too swift and too far, even for a two mile stretch.

I used Julio's shuttle service and have no complaints.

Do you have contact info for Julio's.

Thanks,

Geo

[RICHYD4U]

Yeah, I'm interested in that Julio's transport as well. Always needed a way to float in my canoe, just didn't want to paddle all the way back up stream! This would work great!

-Rich