Lake Arthur report 8/9

Arthur finally lived up to its dead zone reputation for us today.  Water was murky, pretty much everywhere.  At 8am the water was 74 degrees and by 3pm it was 80.  No idea where the fish are or why they aren't biting.  We managed one cat for the box and barely anything else.
 
Still a great day on the lake.  Nice breeze, temps weren't too hot until later in the afternoon.  Needs to stop raining so the lake can return to normal.

Porktown
We couldn't keep the cats off of the hook last weekend, in between showers and some thunder.  Seemed like they were on like crazy when it wasn't raining and stopped when it was.  I opted to try the Yough this weekend instead.  Big mistake.  Not even a bite.  Water was brown, but didn't seem too high.  Some fish jumping, talked to a few guys and none of them catching.  Sounds like my day would have been similar at the lake.  A few more weeks and fishing should start heating up just about everywhere.

Yough Reservoir or river?

Accountant
 
on a side note, its good to see that our friend zelie sam didnt threaten anyone with physical harm in this thread...

...yet

Hmm.  I floated a portion just upstream of you & I wouldn't have called it brown.  Pretty much how it always looks, or rather, it doesn't get a lot clearer down that far.

It was definitely more stained than the past few times fishing there. I know it's never clear, but it was pretty dark and brown, with some sort of stuff mixed in with the water. Not sure what the stuff was. A guy on a nice float boat that I chatted with mentioned the color being off. It didn't seem up, maybe 2 feet of visibility.

Where do you launch at? I'll have to try my fly skills out on my tin jalopy. Not as much stuff to hang up on as my other boat. Can always get out and wade areas as well on the Yough. I'm not a great caster by any means, and sitting down casting is pretty bad for me, usually hitting water on my back cast. My tin boat is not made for standing... I have some glass minnows that I tied for use at the beach this year, that I think would mimic some of the shiners that I've caught in the Yough many years ago. Guessing they are still part of the forage base.

Couldn't buy a bite at Arthur yesterday for my son and nephew.

Chris, I'll look you up in Oct./Nov. if I can make it up that way. I didn't realize how much fishing time a dog would cut into... Hopefully in a few years he calms down enough to take along.

We managed three nice cats between 8 and 9pm but once the sun dropped the lake was dead.  Maybe caught 6 small bullheads by 1:30am then we fled before that monster storm hit.  Just what the lake needed... more rain.  Water looked like pea soup.  
 
Thought about fishing 528/prop but I don't know that area and hate to try new lake in the dark.  Better to play it safe.