Looking for a report....

[buckstar25]

Can anyone give me a river report for the river in and around Marrietta? I am planning on going down in the a.m. I have heard 2 different reports, High water for one report, and great fishing for the other. I am not too worried about the rain, but if th water is blown out and muddied up I will stay closer to home.

[Dissident]

Everyones bein pretty tight lipped lately. Sure been alot of people out. The peir's on the dam's have been quite busy.

[buckstar25]

anybody been fishin the river? no reports anywhere, gonna head down tomorrow. The river levels are looking good and it has been a few weeks since I have been down.:)

[TheCream]

I can't speak for the Ohio, but the Hocking around Athens is clean and at normal flows for the first time since March. If it is good, I would anticipate/guess the Ohio would be good. But, that's just a guess...:coco:

[buckstar25]

Wow, I checked the levels last night and thought Marrietta would be good. Went to Davola, all I could catch were Carp. Big Carp! They were actually hitting jigs, I swear I saw them coming to the surface sucking up whatever frye was in the river. I have not seen that much bait in one spot. It was at least 3" deep for at least 20yds of shoreline and I don't know how far out it went. I saw Crappie slamming the scholls of frye, Smallmouth plowing into them, White Bass, which i did catch 2 were also feeding on them. There were 2 guys on the rock using Minnies and I only saw them catch one or two, I am blaming it on all of the bait in the water. Ended up with about 12 fish, mixed bag. 4 Carp, 1 Crappie, 2 White Bass, 3 small Smallmouth, 1 largemouth, and a Sauger. Oh and I forgot about the big Drum so make it 13. I only have pics from cell phone of the 2 Carp.

[buckstar25]

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w261/gotwipers/100_3079.jpg

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w261/gotwipers/100_3080.jpg

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w261/gotwipers/100_3081.jpg That big root ball was almost completely under water the last time I was down there. I know because my boat was VERY close to it!!

With the water down and this high pressure thing going on, I think maybe I should have taken the boat down. I will definitely be adding a note in the journal for today! I was targeting Hybrids, maybe they come in close to feed in early morning and evening when the water is this low. A guy beside me did catch 2 decent Hybrids in the whitewater though. Must not have been my day to catch one. I still had a good time, beautiful day for sure!:)

[TheCream]

Cool, good you caught some fish, at least!

I've been to that dam 2 or 3 times...maybe it's just my timing, but I have never been impressed. I've fished the dam up at Malta on the Muskingum and we do much better up there. The water seems a little deeper up there. At Devola it seemed like everywhere we fished it was 2' deep! :irked:

[buckstar25]

Cream, you are right about the depth. It is very shallow, but there are some good holes that are about 7-9'. It's just when the water is down you can't get to them from the point. We always do better when the water is up. Here are pics of Mr. Bugle Lips.....

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w261/gotwipers/buglelips.jpg

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w261/gotwipers/buglelips2.jpg