Grand river report (1pic)

[jediangler]

Sunday morning at 8am the Shipper & I put our boats in the river behind the Grand Hotel. The river is at late summer low levels and we scratched our boat bottoms in several sections of the river. The most productive stretches of river were behind the Lanc Hotel and behind the Humane Society. I ended up with 11 smallies none bigger than 12", all were hooked on a 1/16oz jig & grub combo.. The Shipper caught 6 smallies, all on a bitsy bug with a double tailed bungee grub. His biggest was this 16" smallie.

We pulled out at the Freeport bridge at 4pm. It was a long hot ride down the ole Grand, but enjoyable none the less.

[Stoty]

Sounds like a good time on the water.

no matter the size of a smallie, they always put up one heck of a fight!!

 

Fishing with ultralight gear makes it that much more enjoyable!

 

Cheers!

[snag]

I had an invite up there from friends who live in Rockwood,

Looks like I should go!

 

Thanks for the heads up.

[mattyk]

nice smallie!

[fishindevil]

Nice fishing/canoe trip down the river, and thats a decent catch,must have been really hot with no wind eh???? well thanks for sharing nice smallie as well cheers

[Guest Johnny Bass]

Smallies are always a fiesty catch. I didnt know the grand got that shallow.

[jediangler]

The Grand gets as shallow as 6" in some spots we travelled. The most productive depths were between 3-5' with rocky bottom. We don't usually have to worry about shallow water till the end of August. The fact that it is so dry already makes me wonder how deep it will be in August. We need some rain in a bad way.