luvinbluegills
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when you guys talk about muddy creek, are you talking about that part of the lake by the dam or the actual creek itself? I have never fished up that side of the lake and am totally unfamiliar, I usually just launch the canoe around mcdanels and paddle around from there. thanks IC
I am off tomorrow and might scout out the area. Does anyone have any suggestions? I am not looking for your honeyhole or favorite bait, just a general on that area of the lake and fishing it from shore.
Anywhere there's a handicapped access pier can provide good fishing around the perimiter of the pier. Generally though I've found that shoreline fishing on Arthur is all the same: big stretches of water that seem to hold nothing but have tiny features that concentrate fish. The approach to take to any new shoreline there (and this works most places) is to use your confidence lure or bait and work every inch of the shoreline as far as you can reach.
This is something I learned from my older brother. Anytime I'd take him to one of my spots he'd tie on his favorite Panther Martin and start fancasting. Then he'd start workign down the shore until I pretty much lost sight of him. Then he'd work his way back and go the other way. It's work, but it works.
It's a nice feeling when you walk past 12 other fishermen workign the same stretch of shore, start casting to that one small area and while they sit bored you're racking up points fish after fish, and the whole shoreline of Arthur can be that way.
Every piece of shore has what seems like dead stretches, but at the same time, every piece of shoreline I've fished has spots that concentrate fish. Look for oddities in the make up of the shore that might lead to underwater structure. Pay close attention to the weeds on your hook. There's one area I know of that seemingly concentrates all the fish in an area the size of my living room. It took me a while to figure out why but the answer was a change in the type of weeds on the bottom in that area.
Also, look for the weedlines. In one of the drought years about 10 years ago or so, in the Bear Run boat launch area the weeds managed to grow all the way to the surface. Now I know where the weedline runs and was able to identify the depth on a topo map. Now I just cast that distance and don't waste much time in between. I caught my biggest Bluegill finding those weeds and near limits of Crappie. The thing is, I haven't seen the weeds at the surface there even once since that summer.
Another surprise to me is that fishing slowly seems to be the ticket far, far moer often than goign quickly. That probably happens elsewhere too, but in fishign there, Hereford, the 3 rivers and Erie, it seems most important there.
Wade too. You can find out a lot about structure stepping into a hole, a sudden mud pit or off the edge of a road bed! :)
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RE: Arthur - 
Made my day. 
RE: Arthur - 
. Might want to add a inline fuse just in case? Rippinlip said we could stream fish durin the heat of the day then we could hit Arthur on the boat. 
Got a feelin' it's gonna be in alot ov pain the next 10 wks. 
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