Well the best made plans always have a way of going sour if you know what I mean. I had been planning for weeks to camp at Idong and fish at night with the catfish rods baited with live bluegill. We went to Idong Wednesday and it was WAY down. The water was dirty, smelly and just horrible. I have never seen it like that. Neither me nor my daughter wanted to stay and I don’t think I could have caught a bluegill if I tried. We went home and I quickly changed gears for a beach trip. We went back to Taean National Seashore and camped at Mongsanpo beach campground. It was pretty fun. While there I got a few sunset pix. I also checked out the harbor for some possible deep sea fishing info. The comercial boats were coming in loaded with some big fish. Got a few promising phone numbers. We’ll see if that pans out. We woke up the next morning and headed back up to Gungpyeong. I had noticed on Google that the harbor there was about done. I hadn’t fished there in over a year and a half. When I arrived, things had changed quite a bit. There is now a HUGE fish market there. Plus they constructed an American style fishing pier there. A very nice large Y-head pier jutting out from the harbor wall and it was free. I couldn’t pass it up, so we fished for a few hours. It reminded me of fishing on the Gulf Coast. I haven’t seen anything like this before in Korea. We had a few bites on cut squid, but no one was really catching anything except for small bait stealers. We then went and fished the rocks on the other side of the seawall where we had done well before and began to slay the small flatheads. My daughter caught about 2 dozen in an hour (3-6 inches). It got me thinking that maybe we shoud go there in the afternoon and load up on some small flatheads for bait and take them to the new pier for a night trip. The new pier was a pleasant surprise. At only 55 min from the house, I can see me using that a few times. I bet it gets CROWDED on the weekends though. Anyway the fishing wasn’t so great, but I got even more phone numbers in Gungpyeong as well. Soon I will find a decent offshore charter close by without having to drive all the way to Busan.
Dave
Nice pics Dave!!
Rob, Thanks for posting and have a safe trip.
No problem at all Dave, and thanks!
I’m assuming you were at or near the north end of the lake, where that creek runs into the lake? It’s been a few weeks since I’ve been at Idong, but the water was really clear on the south side.
That’s a nice looking pier, don’t think I’ve seen anything like it over here.
No we were on the main lake. You know where you drive the dirt road over hill and end up at that cove where the cabins are. I have never seen the lake like that. Things should be different now with all the rain we had yesterday.
Great photos Dave, looks like a lot of fun.
looks like a lot of fun to me
Dave,
Wow, that’s hard to believe because that’s usually the cleanest part of the lake, especially from the cove on down to the dam, where it’s the deepest. Some friends of mine camped out there Friday night and they said they caught some small bass and 10 decent bluegill but once the sun went down, the bite completely stopped, which is odd.
great outdoor shots! looking forward to do fishing together oneday.