Just got back from the tailrace. They must have known I was coming because they dropped the discharge from 6.5 to 2.5 last night/this morning.
I drove up anyway, picked up a dozen minnows at Woody's and had at it. There were probably 15-20 people fishing the chute - all on the east side.
There were gar everywhere, and a school of shad so large and thick that they darkened the water. I saw all of the usual big river fish caught except
walleye or stripers. I caught a bunch of crappie - mostly small- with a few nice ones tossed in and an 18 inch largemouth. Almost all were caught
dead drifting a live minnow through the current seams. When I ran out of minnows, I tossed a 1/4 oz ball head jig with a 2.5 " white twister tail. This
caught larger crappie than the minnows did.
Got in a solid 3 hours of fishin'
fish on,
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