Live perch an lil carp suckers and i dont use jugs just r&r yea i know right were you are talking about gotta go aways down river best if you got a kyak i have caught some big ones there it real shallow for the first few hundred yards then drops off deep 10 -20 ihave got big yellows outta there pushin 40-50 and have seen bigger the water gets real clear after a rain an the settimeant clears im talkin i got a 9 foot paddle an i can see bottom but i cant touch it with the paddle if your lookin for a good trip take the lil boat or the kyak an put in there at 971 and when you hit the T go left you end up at 29 at makins crossing a few places where you gotta get out and walk it but all and all you can float it in my 14 v bottom with 3 guys we gotta get out but one in a yak would do good i would think that river holds big bass to biggest ive seen is 16.5 my dad caught an that was the smallest of the three pm me and ill tell you the the good holes were they sit but have a vehicle waiting on you at 29 at makins crossing you wont have time to make it back up

Stink that is pretty awesome sounding and the fact it's so close blows me away. I am from Lubbock and it's right in the middle of some good fishing. We used to say "Hell yeah, you can drive 300 miles in any direction and be on some good fish"

To be honest I think the biggest cat I have ever caught would go around 10 pounds or so. This is estimated. I have caught a ton of them 3-4 but those 30-50#..... Holy Krap! You would see me smiling like a kid who just reeled in their first fish. I'm serious. I know for the ACAT guys they would be like.......meh. Whatever.

We really need to talk about this spot. The idea of being about to just float down the river sounds like a pretty good day to me. The clarity you describe is unreal. I am used to being in rivers that look like chocolate milk.

I am feeling a LOT better today and I can finally walk pretty well again. Was nervous as heck yesterday about this. I hope I am good to go this weekend. Will hit you up about those good holes. Thanks for the reply. Very exciting to me.

Scott

Hope the rest of you are out getting your arm broke today if you are on the water!

Yea guy let me know i know b4 the rain it wasnt to clear but now after the flooding we just had it will be a while b4 it clears up but dosent mean the fish arnet bitting i know in that river the fish always bite better when the river is on a rise or just plain flooded i caught big yellows in the river when there are logs floatin past my line yea i cant wait let me know when

Will do for sure. Is there a place you can launch a 16 ft aluminum? 50Merc? Might be flooded enough right now for a no walk float? What'cha think?

No not in the gabe there is to many sand bars and a lot of structure

That's cool...... been wet before. I am still jazzed to get out there. What would you think about right where the river feeds the lake? Good spot or ?

yea take the river up towards the steps there is a good hole over there it will be by county road 391 fish that area not to sure how to get there from the lake on a boat see boats up there but im not sure i just enter that spot through the core property ive done really good when the river is high or comin down off a big rise i dont do to well there on normal conditions

Man all y'all talking about fishing the Gabriel makes me home sick. I used to go tubing down from 29 to Rowe Valley back in high school. We'd fish from Rowe Valley to Jonah. Leave north of that to the Georgetown boys. We'd not be to serious about it but would catch a few to 20lbs. Dads place he rented had a mile of river front. Some good holes but access to it was seasonal. When we got serious we'd fish down stream of circleville store. Thought we had boats come check our lines at midnight so we camped out and caught a boat. Best was 48 lbs on a throw line. After that we gave the river back to the poachers and found a new river.