4MR has been good to me lately. Last week I hooked into a big blue catfish right under the water discharge. I wasn't expecting anything big, so I was fishing with my 5 wt. After about 15 minutes I finally landed him. He measured 33" and I'm guessing about 20 pounds.
I was there again tonight (Nov 22) from about 4:30 to 7. I started with a small popper on the south bank and landed a miniscule blue gill. If we're being generous it was about 2". I started having trouble seeing the popper and put on an olive and white clouser. When I got down to the bridge some guys were fishing there already, so I walked across the bridge and went to fish from the north side near the power pole. I pulled out two crappie on back to back casts. First crappie on a fly, so I was starting to feel pretty good.
I walked down the path there towards the water discharge to finish up the night. I missed a pretty good strike on my first cast there, but about 10 minutes later I got another chance. I landed what I believe to be a walleye (can someone confirm based on the pic?) I've never caught one before, and I didn't think 4MR is somewhere I'd find them. At this point it was dark and I was wearing a headlamp, scanning across the water there were several sets of eyes that looked just like the walleye I had just pulled in at the bottom of the small pool there. I fished for another 30 minutes or so hoping to get another, but to no avail.
Anyway, gotta enjoy this weather while it lasts!
-- I was there again tonight (Nov 22) from about 4:30 to 7. I started with a small popper on the south bank and landed a miniscule blue gill. If we're being generous it was about 2". I started having trouble seeing the popper and put on an olive and white clouser. When I got down to the bridge some guys were fishing there already, so I walked across the bridge and went to fish from the north side near the power pole. I pulled out two crappie on back to back casts. First crappie on a fly, so I was starting to feel pretty good.
I walked down the path there towards the water discharge to finish up the night. I missed a pretty good strike on my first cast there, but about 10 minutes later I got another chance. I landed what I believe to be a walleye (can someone confirm based on the pic?) I've never caught one before, and I didn't think 4MR is somewhere I'd find them. At this point it was dark and I was wearing a headlamp, scanning across the water there were several sets of eyes that looked just like the walleye I had just pulled in at the bottom of the small pool there. I fished for another 30 minutes or so hoping to get another, but to no avail.
Anyway, gotta enjoy this weather while it lasts!
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