Anyone wanna hit Triadelphia on Sunday 29 November?

[mudskipper]

I’m going in the morning. Gonna try to be at the Greenbridge ramp around 8am. Hoping to catch a northern or some bass. Second to last day before the reservoir closes for the season on Tuesday.

I’ll be on a Ocean Kayak Trident 13, white/gray camo

-James

[mudskipper]

Well, today was a waste of a morning. Another skunk.

[rugbyfish]

Triadelphia is a tough fishery in my experience. I grew up about 10 minutes from there and fished it quite a bit when I first got into kayak fishing. There are some nice fish there, but more often than not I caught very little.

[mike o]

Sorry to hear about the skunk. If I had seen your post earlier I probably would have gone with you.

[mudskipper]

Well, I’m glad you spared yourself a skunk, lolz.

[mudskipper]

Triadelphia is a tough fishery in my experience. I grew up about 10 minutes from there and fished it quite a bit when I first got into kayak fishing. There are some nice fish there, but more often than not I caught very little.

Yeah, I’ve ignored it for at least a decade, maybe longer. But I got an interest in it again lately after hearing it was slowly refilling after being down for several years, and seeing the catch reports on DNR’s Angler’s Log.

Figured it was worth a shot today. I fished a variety of different spots, using large (5-6”) live shiners, both under a float and on the bottom in deep water. Also threw a few spinner baits and paddle tails, to no effect. I was really surprised nothing hit the shiners. I’ve never seen a predator fish that passes up a big live minnow, so clearly I was in the wrong spots today.

I believe it’s got serious potential in the next 2-3 years, the amount of brush structure that’s being submerged up in the backs of the coves is unbelievable. Plus the two large “flats” in the lower end of the lake will soon be under water again and providing spawning habitat, so next spring should have the best bass spawn in many years.

I’ll try it again in the spring. I’ve got a good supply of big bait minnows here in a local creek, and I still think they’re the ticket. Just gotta figure out where the fish are.

[therevolution]

I had multiple 25+ fish days at triadelphia this fall. Most bass were 10-12 inches, with the biggest coming in around 14”. Multiple pike each trip and lots of perch. The bite in the creek arms has slowed down as the main lake temps are now higher. I fished those main lake points you mentioned last week and got some nice crappies, and small bass. Fished really slowlyy and tipped jigs with worms helped.

Spoke to a guy at the greenbridge launch back in september that showed me pictures of the tiger muskys he’s caught there this year. I think he was up to 5 over 40” at that point.

Wssc is leaving both rocky and triadelphia open over the winter for shore fishing, just fyi