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Comment by clint johnson on June 10, 2011 at 5:09pm

Mr Hillard, not sure how I didn't see you today, put in at bozeman at daylight. Fished down almost to the bay.like you, we fished till about 230 today. Had to workfor the 19 fish shellcracker,bream,and some big stumpknockers. It seemed. Like we had better luck above where smokehouse goes into river.sorry if I passed you and didn't reconize you

Comment by J. B. Hillard on June 10, 2011 at 4:39pm

Was at Smoke House at 5:10 this morning , but was not the first. A couple of rigs had already launced.  Fished all day. Loaded up at 4PM.  A much longer than than normal for me. I usualy quit by noon.  Had to really work but got a decent catch of 21 bream that included  warmouth and shellcrackers. 15 were really nice big ones. Also got a 2 pound jack and one small cat. Have learned how to clean a jack so kept him. The are not as good as bream, but ok.   Made a couple of picture but for some reason can't get them off my camer onto the computer. Have been having some issues with the camera. Now it looks like I will have to see about repair.

 

 

Comment by J. B. Hillard on June 9, 2011 at 8:35am

Welcome to Copperhead John:  Now those copperhears are something else. There is only one place I have caught them. They grow big.

 

Well Clint I'm not much on salt water either but a friend who is a tackle manfacturere does a lot of testing of his products in areas where you can catch bass/reds/ and specks in the same brackish water. This is around the mouths of the rivers. Shellcrackes are along the reed/grass banks down there too.  He has been catching enough to keep a trip interesting.    You have to be careful with salt water. Start hitting reds and gator trout and it becomes addictive chasing those big ones.

Comment by clint johnson on June 9, 2011 at 7:46am

not much of a salt water fisherman either, limits and size and type of fish you can keep seems to change every year .Nerver know if im legal or not.

Comment by J. B. Hillard on June 8, 2011 at 4:26pm

Friday I will be going out of Black Creek and work the various mouths going into the bay. A few keeper specks and reds are being caught, but it's spotty.  Haven't fished salt water in a long time so don't expect much, but will see.

If that doesn't work I might run up to Fish Lake and try for shellcrackers.

Comment by clint johnson on June 8, 2011 at 2:31pm

im going fri morn. hope to catch some ,maybe they will bite. it would be nice to catch a good mess of fish for a change.

Comment by J. B. Hillard on June 7, 2011 at 5:24pm

Got to Smoke Hoselanding at  5:15 but there were 3 already launched and 2   moving out. when I got there.  Folks are getting out early.  Went up to Stump Mouth looking for deep deep water back in the swamp. Deepest I found was 5 ft. Water line down about 18 inches on trees.  Keepers were 7 bream, 2 warmouth on fly rod,  2 nice shellcrackers, and 2 small cats..........that was it.  Probably caught 30 plus total.  Stump Mouth is first lake on the left after you turn upriver from the Smoke House run.

 

About 10;30 it was getting hot so made a run to cool off and went up  the river and found a lake on the right.  Don't know the name but it's a nice place. Way back in there it opens to a small round lake.  Saw one humongous gator that cam eswimming by behind me. He was about 30 feet from the boat and I was up under some trees. Those things swimming are silent and it startled me.  He was way up out of the water and looked at least 7 to 8 ft. Caught the warmouth here in this lake on flyroy. .  Then back down the Choctaw to  East River  and ran up it maybe 3/4 mile.  Didn't catch a fish.  Only saw two other boats on the water.

This I will concentrate on the lower river for a while since there is some have decent water down there. It's close to several river mouths that empty into the bay so specks and reds are a good alternative if nothing is going on with bream or shell crackers.

Comment by J. B. Hillard on June 6, 2011 at 1:37pm

Will be going out of  Smoke House Tuesday morning, early.  I haven't been there in many decades, but neighbor who has a camp there told me where to go with this low water.  I'm ready to try just about anything to find fish....  <g>  

Comment by clint johnson on June 4, 2011 at 5:02pm

think i will try this one day this week also thanks for the update on the landings

Comment by J. B. Hillard on June 4, 2011 at 3:24pm

Clint:  Gave you incorrect directions to Bozemans, etc.  Here is the right stuff.

1. Go down hwy 3280 1.7 mi to BMS Rd on the left. You will see Bozemans sign . Dirt Road, you will come to a pole in center of road so go around to right. There is a Bozemans sign directing to right. Concrete Ramp is not as steep as I though. In pretty good shape but I could not tell about the drop off. Plenty of parking for maybe a dozen rigs down by the river, but more up on top of the hill.  There were 4 or 5 trailers there about 2:30 this afternoon.  $3 box at top of hill before you drop down to river level.

2. Simplers - back on 3280 and down about another mile or so turn on McCewen St. Simplers sign there. Ramp in good shape. To get to river go to right of ramp. There is supposed to be a sand bar at river so go around the end. Several camps at this ramp. This is only about  a half mile downriver  below Bozemans.   $3.oo box

3. Rooks Bluff. This is on down 3280 a little further. There is a Coke sign at the turn off. Forget trying to launch here.

4. Smoke House.  On down 3280 another 2 or 3 miles. Turn left on Smoke House Rd. This is paved. Ramp at end of the road. This is the best of all I visited. To get to the river go to left. It's a couple of miles to the river. You go through two lakes on the way. From what I have been told there is good fishing all the way to the river. The water is higher here. I'm going to hit this place next week.   $3.00 box.

 

5. Cowford. Today at 2PM there were 16 rigs parked under the hwy20 bridge and one in the new ramp parking lot. The new ramp is out of the water and rip rap at end doesn't look good. Everyone is using the hard sand launch by the bridge which is the old ramp area.  There must have been many more rigs there this morning. 16 at 2PM is a lot.  Fish must be biting or maybe it's the weekend.

I walked out maybe 50 feet on sand bar into the river. Hard pack sand and dry.

 

I'm going to Bozemans one day and fish down river as my buddy told me.   This will take me past Simplers  and Rooks Bluff.on the way. He said down about a mile ans start fishing.

Then another trip to SmokeHouse later in the week.  

 

I have some pictures of the trip today and will get them on photobucket. Having some camera upload issues but will get there.

 

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