Saturday, November 3, 2012

Mountwood.

Today Nic and I headed out to Mountwood park to fish the lakes unexplored tail waters.  Unsure of where the dam even was, I headed on to Google earth to explore. Soon, I found it to be a small creek exiting the side of a earthen dam built back in the 1960's to create the lake. After hiking the 2 mile trail back to the dam, we both broke into the foodstuff and had a short lunch right there of half a peanut butter sandwich and some lays(very healthy hikin' food isn't it?), but soon continued onward's down the creek.  It is a shallow freestone/tailwater, with some moderately deep holes and quite a few riffles although it does not hold hardly any snags. For anyone not wanting to bushwhack it like we did, you can follow the tomahawk trail near the beginning of the dam, although this doesn't give you very much scenery in the way of water or animals.  Although it did not hold hardly any game fish ( 'Cept Blue-Gill) we both did have our five weights doubled over at one point in time or another. By what you might ask?  By Creek Chubs of course! 
Now imagine one as big as a 1 pound bass-
                     -Best Catch of the day. 
I on the other hand only managed to catch one about half that size.  All in all though, was quite a trip, the briers are pretty bad back in there right now though, so you will defiantly want to wear a pair of thick jeans and some waterproof shoes.

2 comments:

  1. That is a creek chub (semotilis atromaculatus), no fall fish occur in the watershed that mountwood is part of.

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  2. Sorry mate, figured this out a while ago. Thanks for reminding me to correct this. Have a great day.

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