With turbidity in the low 20's I decided to give the flats a shot yesterday anyway. I planned on fishing the last 2 hours of the outgoing tide. This was only my second time out in the Hobie and I thought my FF was glitchy showing 5mph with little effort as I headed south. I found out the hard way that the dam was running 5-7 gates, so it wasn't just the outgoing tide I that I was riding. Boy was that current miserable to pedal back against as I struggled to maintain 2.5mph.
With all of the gates open, the turbidity was around 36 by the time I got back to the ramp. By the end of the day it was in the 60's! Between the turbidity and the debris, I definitely chose the wrong place to fish.
I didn't exactly skunk though. "Caught" my 1st fish on the Hobie! IMG_20150412_100057.jpg
No one I saw or talked to seemed to have any better luck than I did.
Two guys launched in yellow PA's as I was getting ready and I'm guessing they went east. If that was anyone here, were the conditions any better away from the flow from the dam?
With all of the gates open, the turbidity was around 36 by the time I got back to the ramp. By the end of the day it was in the 60's! Between the turbidity and the debris, I definitely chose the wrong place to fish.
I didn't exactly skunk though. "Caught" my 1st fish on the Hobie! IMG_20150412_100057.jpg
No one I saw or talked to seemed to have any better luck than I did.
Two guys launched in yellow PA's as I was getting ready and I'm guessing they went east. If that was anyone here, were the conditions any better away from the flow from the dam?
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