vernonia report 7/11

[codeman]

Hey spent 6 hours there today. I have never seen the water so green. The algae has really gone crazy since i was there last about 3 weeks ago. The water felt somewhere in the 70s (at least at the surface). I really focused on crappie the first two hours, working the woody structure hard and could only eek out 11 of them. Caught a few blue gill, perch, and small bass in between. Decided to target blue gill specifically since the crappie was so slow. Took me about an hour of probing my usually hot spots before i found the fish. There was a couple of huge schools directly across the lake from the ramp right up against the heavy reeds. It was pretty much a fish on as soon as my little black jig hit the water. Caught 200 blue gills in the last 3.5 hours i was there. If any one's little kids want to catch fish, i would recommend taking them there with some worms and a bobber. there are several little "channels" through the reeds on the far side of the lake that you could fish from the shore. if you have a little boat, you can let your kids catch hundreds, especially fun in the evening when it cools down a little bit.

[viettony]

is there a lot of channel catfish in there, i love fishing for channel catfish but most place i go only have the bullhead catfish.I live in beaverton and is it pretty easy getting there.any information about this place would be very helpful.

[codeman]

sorry, no channels. There are only brown bullheads. However, they are the largest bull heads i've ever seen. Most fish will be your typical ones, but i have caught a few (off of jigs while fishing for crappie) and seen several more that were over 3 pounds. The water is farely warm and a lot of the fish I catch have sores on them. Not sure if i would eat too many fish out of there, even if they are fine they probably wouldn't taste very good. I would try the tualitin or the upper willamette above the falls. I haven't fished it in years, but we used to catch tons of nice channels up there when i was a kid.