Gorge today

[perchy]

Caught a few slow rolling spinnerbaits today
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[Cowpokey]

Those are healthy looking fish!

[DanMarino]

Nice fish Perchy and a beautiful day out. What color spinner baits are working for you? How deep are you catching them?

[perchy]

Tom, I'm using 3/4 oz terminator colorado willow spinnerbaits. You can order them here: http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Termi...e-TT1CWSB.html

Dave posted a link to a youtube video that Jeff Little made about the technique. The fish were caught along drop offs in 5-15 ft of water.

The hot shad and yellow perch colors have both worked for me.

[BassMoore]

was the water level down? few of my buddys just left there saying the water level was down about 3 feet

[deleonjo]

Nice fish, Perchy! Sounds like the WSSC reservoirs have turned on. Triadelphia was about 3-3.5 ft low when I was there last Sunday 9/14/14.

[DrJoel]

was the water level down? few of my buddys just left there saying the water level was down about 3 feet

I was out last Saturday and again on Thursday (Gorge, between Browns Bridge and 29). It was noticeably lower on Thursday. 3 feet sounds about right, maybe a little more.

[perchy]

Yeah the water level was definitely drawn down about 3 ft. Here is one I caught a while back slow rolling. The 3/4 oz weight and larger profile seems to get these lures noticed and they can be fished slower than crankbaits and are heavy enough to stay deep.

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[justacanoe]

In July 2006, using a 3/4oz spinnerbait, I paddle trolled up a 4.8 lb LMB at dawn off the shallow mainlake shelf/point just downriver from the stumpfield. Some guys at the stumpfield were gracious enough to weigh and photo it for me after I paddled furiously up on them in excitement. Thought it was a five for sure... but they said "Nope!" (you're still a patzer). At the time I thought I found a secret weapon. They work for sure.

[imagine29028]

Went today...tried to launch at Brown's no dice....no water. Went to Scotts...1st cast got a 13 incher, nothing after that. Once the sun came out everything shut off. Should of gotten there earlier w/ the fog & overcast conditions.

Was there a few weeks ago and today I was getting depths 5-7 lower today...Res has dropped significantly.

[CAGE RATTLER]

Launched at Scotts cove today myself. Was gonna try BB but after reading about the low water decided not. Didn't get there till about 10:30 and fished till about 5.
We got 6 LMB's but all were small. Also caught a small WP and 14.5" crappie.

Got the crappie on the 1st cast of the day tossing a chrome rattle trap near a laydown and a real nice size bass was following the crappie in. Thought right away this was gonna be a great day but didn't work out that way. Probably stayed in that cove to long hoping for more. It was about the only cove with decent laydowns with the low water. We had a school of big carp swimming around us in the shallows but couldn't get them to take anything. Kept trying to snag one with the rattle trap....lol. I guess they were carp. Only fish I know of with yellow lips.

Finally left the cove and decided to see how far it was to the 29 bridge so I trolled the rattle trap and a fire tiger crankbait. Picked up another small LMB on the rattle trap on the way. Went under the bridge and picked up another small lmb just passed the bridge.

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[CAGE RATTLER]

A couple pics I snapped the ramp.

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[perchy]

Went out before sunset and caught two more on the spinnebait... Here is the larger one:

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[BeyondTheBounds]

Good to know. I've fished the gorge twice from browns bridge launch. Will be giving the spinner a bit more play in the future. Haven't launched from Scott's yet, but that is the plan for next time. Good lookin catches.