Stumped on the river

[Peter E.]

Well ladies and gents I am stumped, doesn't happen very often but it happens. So therefore I am all about some help. Let me tell you about the river and you can give me some feed back.

The Cahaba River as it runs close to my home is low due to the drought in Alabama. It still has a fairly good current and a decent depth running from 2 feet to 20. Of course an undammed water way does that. But even with the low water and stable conditions there is only about 1 foot of visibility. On the banks that curve WITH the river there are soap stone walls, the other side is a gradual tapered muddy sides. As one can imagine the river is littered with old fallen trees and stumps. Normally I would think that this sort of place would suite me fine. But for the past two days I have been stumped and granted I have only been able to fish it about an hour each day. All the same I would love the insight.

The forage in the river are the ussual suspects: shad, blue gill, crawfish, and now the new mayfly hatch. One thing to add here is that there are largemouth, spotted and striped bass in this area. Well just trying to paint a good picture. Thanks for the in-put.

Peter

[justfishin]

Get below anything blocking the current and creating a break in the current. Throw a tube straight up river to the current break, not sideways but, STRAIGHT UP RIVER. Start at the bottom of the break and work your way up. Let your tube do the work. Just stay with the basic Green Pumpkin Tube and a 1/8oz jig head. You will  catch some. Just hole hop. Work each hole for ten minutes or so and if you do not get any bites, move to the next one. Good luck.

[Guest avid]

Where there is current,

there will bass be..........................................Yoda

[WBFishing]

I live in the Birmingham Area.  I fished an tournament out on Holt Lake this morning.  No one has a fish to weight in.  My partner and I were on a bar fishing for spots at 5:45, there were monster spots blowing shad out of the lake but we could not make them hit anything.  We threw spooks, frogs, spinnerbaits, poppers, buzzbaits, could make them hit.  So we move locations and everywhere this morning bass were killing shad but would not hit anything. Everything in the boat got wet.  The only bites would could get was flipping grass, but they were not even keeper fish.  At about 12:00, we run into some of the other guys and stop to talk for a minute, they have indentical stories. No one had a keeper fish and it was getting hotter and the bite was shut down, so we put them on the trailer.  No one fishing the tournament had a keeper fish.  And it is a bad day when you can't get bit on a shakyhead and you start throwing homemade spoons to try to get 1  12'er to actually get some points.

I think this drought has all the water systems in the area messed up.  When you figure out how to get on em let me know.