Last week I decided to dust off my Hobie Kayak and head to McInnish Park and put in at the small boat ramp off the river. This was my first time fishing this part of the river. My game plan was to target crappie in timber. I wanted to share my experience, with the hope of someone else sharing there experience as well. So on Day 1 (Dec 11), I fished mostly the West bank of the river from 11 am to 3pm and managed to pickup a really nice white bass and nothing else. I eventually made it to the deep hole where Denton Creek joins Elm Fork. I cannot express enough the number of shad that appeared on my fish finder in this deep hole, It was roughly about 25 to 28 feet at this location. I tried jigging this deep hole, but no luck. On day 2, fished the same time frame, however I noticed a small water channel in Denton Creek that leads to huge pond that I fished for about 2 hours. Same results, numerous shad with no takes. I was completely skunked and ego hurt. LOL. Anyways, It was a beautiful day on the water and extremely gorgeous part of the river. God is Great ! Always willing to meetup at this river, just PM. Fish on my brothers !

Thanks for the report capt! was there any current to the river & did you find any structure?

Yea. No current. Water was flat.

I have fished this area several times, almost always in the spring/early summer. I have never crushed it, but always seem to find a few small spotted bass and have gotten into some decent (but not huge) crappie and sand bass on road runners and jigs.

I have done well where you drew the arrow. Have also done well in Denton Creek where the small feeder leads to the pond... this area is very small, but something holds the fish there. I have never done great in the pond, not sure why because it seems to have plenty of depth to hold fish year-round. I have seen a lot of big gar in there, this certainly doesn't help.

In short, you seem to have focused on the right areas. You probably just hit it on an off weekend... this time of year is day by day.

Will give it a try again this weekend, will have a update within couple of days.

I’m out of town this weekend but I’d be down to paddle around a little bit and see what we could get into. I’ll shoot you a message when we’re back and we can try to make something work!