I‘m off all this week, so yesterday I bought myself a few Mepps inline spinners and some 6-pound line to put on my ultra-light rig and at 10 this morning I took a quick drive to try my luck.  We had some hard rain just the other day so I was worried that the river would be a little muddy and high; the streams around here tend to rise rather quick after any amount of rain.  Here are a few pics:

The water was higher than last Sunday, a bit on the stained side and the current was running pretty strong as well but it’s been so long since I wet a line, I just had to try my luck.  I walked a good bit of shore and threw some different colored inline spinners, and even tried a 4-inch Senko and a small jig near some downed trees where the current wasn’t so strong, but not a bite.  On the way back to the car, I saw a guy fishing with his two kids and when I asked him what kind of fish there were in this river, he told me that now is a bad time except for trout, and that during the warmer months, one can catch red-eye bass (no idea what those area), bluegill, crappie, large and small mouth bass, and catfish.  He also told me he’s out there at that park almost every other day no matter what.  I noticed he was using power bait and he said with the water as stained and the strong current, that was the best bet for trout right now so maybe I’ll have to stop by K-Mart this afternoon to pick some up and maybe give it another shot tomorrow since it’s supposed to get up to 60 tomorrow.  This is a possibility for EMB except I’m not so sure I want to walk around the local waters in the dark; they have some snakes here I’d rather not tangle with.

And here’s one for Rob:  On the way into the park, it’s about a 2-mile stretch of narrow road and on the way in, a car came from the other direction and the driver waved at me.  I thought, “Do I know that guy?” and then it hit me, people down south tend to wave at other drivers on the country roads and sure enough, on the way out a pickup truck came my way and the driver did the same thing but this time I was ready and gave him “the wave” and “the nod” back

We hit Kunsan Saturday morning and fished all day and we only fished this reservoir but we caught fish all day. Only a couple big ones were landed with Jerry catching 8 and I caught at least 20 but lost count. It was a good day out there and believe it or not the Koreans are finding out about this place because there were probably 8 to 10 that I seen throughout the day.  Enjoy the pics

We visited the river on 4 November to find out it was hard to fish and Jerry was the only one to land this bass. Big enough for the only catch of the day.

I fished this reservoir at Kunsan on the 12th and only caught three bass. Only one was pic worthy and the water was way down just like everywhere else. The lake looked really good and had a track going over it which was really cool.

I fished a different reservoir on the 13th at Kunsan and caught about 30 Bass and 10 were in the same casting spot. It was fun! Here are a few pics.

Here are a few we pulled in at the 2nd Rest Stop. Frank you know this spot well. Pic 71 was a 3 pounder and after I landed this one I get a phone call from Jerry saying he needed some help, No help was needed he just wanted to show off his 4 pounder that he pulled in in pic 72.

I went to the 2nd rest stop this evening to try my skills out and low and behold I hooked this 5 pounder on a black and yellow spinner which has been my favorite spinner this year. I don’t have a fancy scale like you but I did put it on my tube scale but the pic didn’t turn out clear. I was able to run down a adoshi and have him take my pic though. If you remember right, last year on our last trip out I hooked a 4.4 on a jig head. I’m taking Friday off and going to try that rest stop again. Enjoy the pic Nomad!

The park itself isn’t that big, maybe 1/2 a mile or so long and there are 2 parking areas, one of which has a nice big concrete ramp.  We saw several boats cruising on the river but only one was a bass boat, the others looked to be pleasure boats.  I have no idea what the fishing is like in the Cumberland since I still haven’t had time to get a fishing license (sad, right?) and I still don’t have most of my gear…but our household shipment is scheduled to be delivered on the 14th so unless the movers lost or broke all my rods, the fishing should commence shortly.

Oh,and look at what I saw right across the street from my office:

That was on my first day of work, around 8 in the morning (crappy pic, taken with my iPhone).  A little later, I saw 5 turkeys in the same area and since then, I’ve seen more deer on a few days…they come out of the woods and feed right there.

You did well, Ty. If I was there, I’d give you a high five

Went out to Andong with Tony Rodriguez on 1-2 Sep for two days of fishing at Andong. We were supposed to be there for 3 days but Tony was only able to get out of the dog house for a 2 day trip.  We got there at about 1000 and only fished for several hours as it was extremely hot.  We came back later in the evening and fished until night and ended up with about 10 fish for the day. I caught the largest fish of the day on the very last cast while it was dark. The next morning was supposed to be us at the lake in the boat by 0500 but ended up being 0700 as we divulged the night before on a meal of BBQ pork guts and massive amounts of cold beverages. It’s usually what happens when Momma gives you a hall pass. Day two was strange as we did not even get a bite until the sun came out and it started getting hot.  We caught about 10 in about one hour, all on wacky style robo worms. I also caught my very first sogari, which Tony did not take a picture of. We took a break and came back at about 1600 and fished from the banks as it was way too hot to get on the inflatable boat. We started casting heavy texas rigged 10 inch ribbontail worms as far as we could and caught several more to include 3 that went over 3 pounds. The water was the highest I have ever seen it at and there were trucks and tractors all over the boat launch area cleaning mountains of trash and wood debris. Next trip is Pusan for Amberjacks with maybe a trip or two or three to the Pyongtaek river in between.

First of all, Dae Ho Man is pretty darned big and it was a little intimidating to fish a body of water that large without knowing where to fish.  Add to that that there’s no cover or structure, nothing but flat shoreline with no or little rocks/brush/trees, a high pressure system which gave us blue skies with lots of sun plus the water being green from the algae growth, and you have a challenge, to say the least.  Without a fish finder, we also had no way to know how deep the water was or what the bottom looked like beneath us so we sort of stuck close to the bank, fishing the hydrilla we saw floating near shore.  That produced lots of dinks, mostly on Senkos fished wacky (Rob did really well with the baby bass color).  I did manage to catch that one bass in the last pic on a jig (jigs, baby!) when I cast out near a weed bed and Rob caught one about the same size on a Senko which he didn’t take a pic of.  I think had the water been clearer so we could see where the weed beds were, we could have done a lot better but the algae growth had turned the water a greenish color and that hampered our fishing.  IMO, Dae Ho would be great during the spring when the water is clear and you can see the weed beds but right now it’s a tough lake to fish unless you know exactly where to go and what to use, which we didn’t.  But, as always, we had a great time and I’m glad I finally had the chance to fish there and  I’m looking forward to some fishing reports from next spring.  Thanks, Rob!

I started out with a spinnerbait while it was still dark, hoping to catch a fish but nothing doing.  Then I switched to Senkos and caught the above, on a 4” Senko (black with blue flakes).  Then I switched to a drop shot hook with no weight, with a watermelon seed-colored finesse worm on it and once again, I hooked into a nice fish which took me into the rocks and broke my line.  BTW, the water is so clear at the point I fish that I could see about 4 feet down and could watch the bass heading for and into the rocks.

After that I put on a Big Ika (smoke with silver flecks) and caught these 3 all within about 15 minutes.  Unfortunately, by then it was time to head in to work.  Not sure what the deal is with spinnerbaits this year, I just haven’t had much luck with them at all, and it sure wasn’t for lack of trying.

At one point, we were having a contest to see who could catch the smallest fish…it was close, I’ll let you decide who won:

Ty’s is on the left, mine is on the right.  I think mine is smaller. (And Steve, as you can see, there was no problem with that little dink biting a Big Ika )

The above was the biggest one caught today, on a green Bitsy Bug Jig, right under that debris you see floating against the shore.  What really made today different besides the number of bass we caught was that for the first time that I can remember, the bass were biting jigs better than they were biting Senkos or other worms/lures.  We probably caught 95% of our fish on jigs today, which was just unreal.  Luckily, Ty had some jigs along because mine are all on their way to Tennessee.  This is probably the last trip I get to take in the SS Netcutter and I have to say, what a good memory this will be.  Thanks, Ty, and sorry I forgot the sandwiches!

I started out catching dinks again…

Above is the biggest of the 4 dinks I caught.  After catching that one, I switched to a spinnerbait and chatterbait, then a 10.5” ‘Ol Monster worm, with no luck.  Then 5 minutes before it was time for me go get my morning exercise in before work, I threw on a 4” Senko (black with blue flakes)

And I caught this nice healthy bass which weighed in at 3 1/2 pounds.  Life is good