6/21/08 Willy Salem

[1bigfish]

I haven't been posting all my reports lately but I thought I would toss this out there as an FYI.

Water temp 58* in the main channel. Color was pretty clear.
Fished 8 till 11am. Caught only 10 samllies Big was 2lb 6oz.

The smallies were on a crank bite but there was a problem. WEEDS. There were so many weeds floating down the river I couldn't keep my crankbait clean long enough to catch fish. I would make a cast and if I could reel it in for more the 15 yard without hitting a floating weed I hooked up everytime. But 90% of my cast I would real for no more then 5 yards and get caught in a weed. I eventually switched to plastics but only got two dinks.

I must have cleaned about 100lbs of weeds off my line.
Not sure where they all were coming from but I even had to pull the electic motor a couple of time to clean it.

[arkansasbasser]

Same thing I ran into at the Cascade Locks on Saturday. Was it coontail moss? I think we will have a lot of it this year due to the high water.

[1bigfish]

I'm not really up to speed on the names of weeds. It was long, thin, stringy, and green. Some of it was as long as 30inches. None of it was atached to the bottom it was just floating down the river.

[Willie Ketchum]

Same here re moss, fished Sunday the 22nd out of Wheatland, plenty moss, few SMBs. Temp was 59. What's the size limit on that moss? I might have accidently kept a couple oversize.

[arkansasbasser]

Originally Posted by 1bigfish

I'm not really up to speed on the names of weeds. It was long, thin, stringy, and green. Some of it was as long as 30inches. None of it was atached to the bottom it was just floating down the river.

Coontail moss is the kind that grows from the bottom and lays on top and looks like, well, a coons tail, sorta. Doesn't sound like the salad that you were in.