Nolin Bass Jumps 16 July

[HURRICANEBOB]

Ramped in at Wax, ran all over the lake from 4 pm to 7 pm trying to find somewhere reasonably calm to fish. Tons of boaters out, most very courteous and cautious, but still alot of wake to try to fish comfortably along the banks with the wife.

At 7 pm entered the mouth of Conoloway Creek, and the bass were pushing shad up and surface feeding on them. We fished there till 9 pm, and stayed close to the point and mud line right at the mouth on the right side as you enter.

Small Kastmaster spoons with a white feather tail, Small White poppers with sparkle finnish and a white feather tail, small Chrome torpedo baits with the prop tail, and Chrome Zora spooks netted us about 18 Largemouth, 12-14 inches. When they were up they would hit the Zora, and the Torpedo, when they went down the Kastmaster and the White poppers seem best to keep them biting.

Didn't see any other jumps, but then again this was the area we stumbled on and then sat on. Seemed like the best bite was right at the edge of the mud line where the bass seemed to be piling up to bushwack the shad fingerlings as they came out for cleaner water.

Kinda wish I had forgone this trip, and gone early Sunday morning instead. Less boat traffic at dawn on a Sunday, and I think that area would have really boiled up.

[coombro]

RichyD got another one going.

[HURRICANEBOB]

Wow, my bad, thought you'd all like to know. Won't happen again.

[raincheck]

I hit NRL from a ramp that i thought was private but its a goverment owned ramp.Its on a point up from the dam ramp by the little island.Headed down to the 1st cove that i aways had luck at.Couldn't get too any jumps but did see a few.I did catch 1 LM that was 15 1/2 inchs & weight was 2.1 lb.I was in my kayak and had alot of blow ups on a buzz bait but only caught the 1.Later in the day a few of us went back too see the water fall in that cove & John Beaver using my old town kayak caught a small bass right under the water fall.I think i'll be back but i'm not in a hurry because this river rat is heading too Mi. & Wi. too fish the rivers.See you all next month i'm out of this hot box.
River Basser
Terry Adolph

[restornator]

I hit NRL from a ramp that i thought was private but its a goverment owned ramp.Its on a point up from the dam ramp by the little island.Headed down to the 1st cove that i aways had luck at.Couldn't get too any jumps but did see a few.I did catch 1 LM that was 15 1/2 inchs & weight was 2.1 lb.I was in my kayak and had alot of blow ups on a buzz bait but only caught the 1.Later in the day a few of us went back too see the water fall in that cove & John Beaver using my old town kayak caught a small bass right under the water fall.I think i'll be back but i'm not in a hurry because this river rat is heading too Mi. & Wi. too fish the rivers.See you all next month i'm out of this hot box.
River Basser
Terry Adolph

This is the Cave Hollow Bay ramp and it is private. that doesn't prevent cheap asses from saving $3 and launching their boat there, and then using MY dock as a courtesy. There's no respect for private property, why not just pay the dam ramp fee?

[RICHYD4U]

This is the Cave Hollow Bay ramp and it is private. that doesn't prevent cheap asses from saving $3 and launching their boat there, and then using MY dock as a courtesy. There's no respect for private property, why not just pay the dam ramp fee?

I boat by the ramp all the time, and it always seems there are a dozen people swimming right there......very dangerous spot to be swimming IMO with that point and how boats fly around it.

-Rich

[21XRD300]

I boat by the ramp all the time, and it always seems there are a dozen people swimming right there......very dangerous spot to be swimming IMO with that point and how boats fly around it.

-Rich

Our place is accross the bay from that ramp. We get to watch all the traffic from our dock accross the bay.

Me (Ed) and my brother might be on the water tomorrow afternoon till dark. If youall see us say howdy. White 21' Bullet, Dual Console, 300 ProMax on the back.

[CTFSHWHISKER]

This is the Cave Hollow Bay ramp and it is private. that doesn't prevent cheap asses from saving $3 and launching their boat there, and then using MY dock as a courtesy. There's no respect for private property, why not just pay the dam ramp fee?

when i lived at red rock we,the neighborhood,wanted to put in a small ramp so we did not have to go to moutiedier,when we inquired about we was told we could apply for the permit,put it in according to corp instructions,they told us there was no such thing as a 'private' ramp per say,if we put it in any one could use it,even though we had to maintain it.was like 98-99 don't know how they do it now.we did not because we didn't want all the traffic and garbage,they since put one back in the creek.

[coombro]

when i lived at red rock we,the neighborhood,wanted to put in a small ramp so we did not have to go to moutiedier,when we inquired about we was told we could apply for the permit,put it in according to corp instructions,they told us there was no such thing as a 'private' ramp per say,if we put it in any one could use it,even though we had to maintain it.was like 98-99 don't know how they do it now.we did not because we didn't want all the traffic and garbage,they since put one back in the creek.

My thoughts exactly never heard of a private ramp on Nolin. Once you get past the red line all is Corps. property. Like Conalaway ramp it's not maintained by the corp. Like Wax and others yet the have a donation box set up on the honor system as the residents there maintain it. Was wondering how it could be private when it's the Govt.s property?

[Ranger492]

My thoughts exactly never heard of a private ramp on Nolin. Once you get past the red line all is Corps. property. Like Conalaway ramp it's not maintained by the corp. Like Wax and others yet the have a donation box set up on the honor system as the residents there maintain it. Was wondering how it could be private when it's the Govt.s property?

I believe you guys are correct, as far as I know, there are no truly "private" ramps....however, it would probably piss me off a bit if I had a subdivision ramp that I had "paid" for and helped to maintain and outsiders used them all the time. The couple of ones like this that I know in Dog Creek are usually pretty well respected by non-residents. I use one that I'm not a resident of a few times a year because a couple of my fishin partners live in there and I pick them up. Were it not for that, I would probably ask permission from someone before launching...not that I would be "required" to, just seems like the decent thing to do (along with not abusing the privelage if granted. $0.02

[Rudypoo4444]

This is the Cave Hollow Bay ramp and it is private. that doesn't prevent cheap asses from saving $3 and launching their boat there, and then using MY dock as a courtesy. There's no respect for private property, why not just pay the dam ramp fee?

Looks like I just found a new ramp to launch from on Nolin! YAY!

[09Z7SC]

This is the Cave Hollow Bay ramp and it is private. that doesn't prevent cheap asses from saving $3 and launching their boat there, and then using MY dock as a courtesy. There's no respect for private property, why not just pay the dam ramp fee?

I agree that no one should be using your dock as a courtesy dock, but I beleive that the corps made it illegal to operate private ramps on Nolin, therefore making all of them public. My neighbors have a house in a gated community in Brier Creek and the corps told them, in order to leave the gate up, that they had to destroy the ramp. So the corps brought down a bulldozer and tore it up.

That is what I have been told anyway.

I just buy one of those $30 access passes, I fish Nolin all the time, and it is way cheaper than paying $3 everytime. BTW, there is no fee at the State Park ramp, the ramp is just too small and they have not fixed the courtesy dock since the flood, took out a small peice of fiberglass on my boat last month.