The Falls

[riverrat12]

Chuck does that new boat seat three??? lol

im gonna see if my buddy wants to go friday he has a boat and fishes over with me a lot but had sugery a few weeks ago. ill see if hes up for it and may meet up with you guiys friday. I need to get myself a 60 pounder along with Mark. looks like my motor is shot so i think im stuck on the bank until october when i get my truck and the rest of theese old credit card bills paid for and then its my time to get a new rig!!

Jason, I'm sure at some point we will all hook up, heck when all of us get together for our Fri. nighters again there's allway's an open seat somewhere. For that matter I can pick you up and we can all go out on the rock at the lower dam for some stripe action. I might have to twist ole Marks arm to catch them critters but I think it's a good possibility LOL. We'll get together at some point I promise...Chuck

[BASSKING]

ill get down there sooner or later. sill havent got the final word on my engiene yet but if the guy can find the parts he can fix it. ive been searching for theese parts fo a while. even went to Ohio to get a few of them i found at an old marine shop. money is just not there right now to get a ne motor.

i might be down there this friday if i can talk this guy into gettin his lazy butt off his couch. he had hernia sugery about 4 weeks ago and hes really babying it but its driving him nuts not fishin. so might see ya downthere friday.

Jason

[Tyme2fish]

The river looks even better today and the boats are STACKED up down there right now. At least 7 or 8 that I can see.

They just got POURED on but the sun is out and shining right now and I am completely jelous!

I was one of the guys that got poured on. At least I had my rain jacket. My partner just got soaked. Yep, the sun then came out and all was well.

[JD7.62]

I was one of the guys that got poured on. At least I had my rain jacket. My partner just got soaked. Yep, the sun then came out and all was well.

How'd yall do?


At one point it was raining so hard I couldnt even see the train bridge!

[Tyme2fish]

We had some "mushy" liver so our bait wasn't the greatest. We did manage to catch a bunch of cats.

Lots of rough fish rolling all over the place. It looked like a pod of dolphins surfing out there !!

[JD7.62]

We had some "mushy" liver so our bait wasn't the greatest. We did manage to catch a bunch of cats.

Lots of rough fish rolling all over the place. It looked like a pod of dolphins surfing out there !!

Asian Carp mostly.

Sometime I wish I could just blow em all up when they are that thick up there like that.

I have a BAD feeling that these guys are going to cause a serious problem for us in the next 2-3years.

[riverrat12]

Asian Carp mostly.

Sometime I wish I could just blow em all up when they are that thick up there like that.

I have a BAD feeling that these guys are going to cause a serious problem for us in the next 2-3years.

Jason, I think it's allready pretty bad , a couple years ago I walked over on the rock below the second dam when they had it shut down looking for some shad. When I got right behind the dam there were hundreds of them, all 2 to 4ft long everywhere. The guy's up on the dam with a better view where shouting at me saying look at that. I just nodded and threw my 1oz rooster tail out for some fun, when it hit the water it was like a bomb going off , they shot out of there some airborne ....scary stuff right there...Sad part is we can't even snagg for them anymore on the Ind. side so they have the run of the mill.Chuck

[SKIPJACK]

Big Skippies still hitting good! Even caught a few Moon eye today.

[JD7.62]

Jason, I think it's allready pretty bad , a couple years ago I walked over on the rock below the second dam when they had it shut down looking for some shad. When I got right behind the dam there were hundreds of them, all 2 to 4ft long everywhere. The guy's up on the dam with a better view where shouting at me saying look at that. I just nodded and threw my 1oz rooster tail out for some fun, when it hit the water it was like a bomb going off , they shot out of there some airborne ....scary stuff right there...Sad part is we can't even snagg for them anymore on the Ind. side so they have the run of the mill.Chuck

Its a shame.

I just hope they dont get so bad that our native filter feeders (these Asian carp are filter feeders) such as shad and paddlefish do not suffer. Even our juvy sport fish rely on the same food source as an 80lb big head and needless to say, an 80lb bighead takes away ALOT of food from a fry.

Also its going to **** when you are running up river at 50MPH and one of these beasts skys out and knocks you out of your boat! And this has happened before where these guys have taken over!

Oh well enough doom and gloom...

When do yall think the hybrids and stripe will show up in full force?

Also, are there any tips or tricks to catching LARGE stripe at the falls?

Most of the TRUE stripe I catch are less then 12" with my biggest being less then 24". Ive managed several hawg hybrids out of there but Id really like to target some big stripe this year, especially once I get my boat going!

[fisheater]

Ill take you out and show you what we do.Im like you though most of the true stripes i catch are smaller.Theres no real way i know to target one or the other because they all run in the same areas.

[riverrat12]

Ill take you out and show you what we do.Im like you though most of the true stripes i catch are smaller.Theres no real way i know to target one or the other because they all run in the same areas.

John, you guy's going to make down tomorrow??? Chuck

[fisheater]

It depends,i might have an appointment to see a house tommorow.If not it will toward the evening when i get down there.