Coal Creek slough

Midnghtshdow · 10-30-2008, 06:50 PM

Hey, guys me and and Hinderager are going to coal creek slough this sat! It is located off the Columbia River. It averages around 20 to 40 ft deep. It is loaded with bass. I have never fished it befor. The water temp is not bad its around the 50's. There is all kinds of cover and rip rap and points. What do you guys suggest we use for the presentation. The water is stained pretty good in some places. Just would like some good ideas. To up our odds.

arkansasbasser · 10-31-2008, 04:31 AM

Coal Creek Sough is not that deep. Average depth is probably 8 feet. It is not loaded with bass. It has some bass. If it was loaded, bassers from around here would not go up to Silver Lake. They would just go there.

Plastics and jigs pitched into downed trees and worked very slowly. At low tide it is very hard to get around in, so timing is important. Rising tide is best. Those bass have seen it all too. So natural, quiet presentations are required.

ExBassGuide · 11-05-2008, 03:22 AM

If you have gone to Silver Lake you may have met John S. He fishes Silver more than anyone. He has landed two 8 pounders in one day from Coal creek. But I too would be fishing Silver right now! Roger

arkansasbasser · 11-05-2008, 08:05 AM

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Originally Posted by ExBassGuide

If you have gone to Silver Lake you may have met John S. He fishes Silver more than anyone. He has landed two 8 pounders in one day from Coal creek. But I too would be fishing Silver right now! Roger

Is John S. an IFish member? I know that there are some pigs in those sloughs. Just not the numbers like at Silver.

MolaJoe · 11-05-2008, 05:25 PM

I tried fishing this slough this past Summer. I had to pull the boat back on the trailer when I found out the water was only 10 inches deep in front of the launch ramp. If you fish this spot in the Summer, be careful about the tides. If you launch at the high, you may not make it back in when it drops.

arkansasbasser · 11-05-2008, 06:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Midnghtshdow

Hey, guys me and and Hinderager are going to coal creek slough this sat! It is located off the Columbia River. It averages around 20 to 40 ft deep. It is loaded with bass. I have never fished it befor. The water temp is not bad its around the 50's. There is all kinds of cover and rip rap and points. What do you guys suggest we use for the presentation. The water is stained pretty good in some places. Just would like some good ideas. To up our odds.

So, how'd ya do??

Midnghtshdow · 11-06-2008, 04:14 PM

Ah not so good. The water was pretty deep! the shallowest it got was 3 ft and we did not make it far cause of a wind storm and I did not hook my trolling motor back up right and lost power so we called it a day. I have been havin a hard time getting my trollin motor to work how its supposed too.

arkansasbasser · 11-06-2008, 07:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Midnghtshdow

Ah not so good. The water was pretty deep! the shallowest it got was 3 ft and we did not make it far cause of a wind storm and I did not hook my trolling motor back up right and lost power so we called it a day. I have been havin a hard time getting my trollin motor to work how its supposed too.

Wow! So I'm not the only one that has days like that.

jbooth · 11-07-2008, 08:03 AM

Coal creek is nothing like it used to be, I guess you could say it used to be loaded with bass but now it is not that great. Seems to have a decent average size though. I usually launch from willow grove and come in because the launch is usually full of meth heads and is hard to launch a bass boat out of. You need to be really careful running is a lot of stuff to hit and it is definately not 20-30ft deep.

Midnghtshdow · 11-07-2008, 04:35 PM

Ah see you guys are just lookin at one end of the slough. It exstends all the way to the river! YA! the willow boat launch looks good when the tide is up, but when you see a dude stayin in his rv and looks scetchy you really dont want to leave you stuff thier. So we launched at willow. I wish i could find the schematics for wiring a t motor up for 24/12 v on a 4 prong plug. I found one but it seems not to work.

arkansasbasser · 11-09-2008, 07:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Midnghtshdow

Ah see you guys are just lookin at one end of the slough. It exstends all the way to the river! YA! the willow boat launch looks good when the tide is up, but when you see a dude stayin in his rv and looks scetchy you really dont want to leave you stuff thier. So we launched at willow. I wish i could find the schematics for wiring a t motor up for 24/12 v on a 4 prong plug. I found one but it seems not to work.

I saw that same guy in the RV. Stopped and talked to him. Really nice fella. He was telling me how a fish draged his rod into the water and he fished it out with another rod with a treble hook on. Turned out to be a big carp that he offered me. I politely declined.

You are correct in that the big slough coming in from Stella is much deeper. But that's not where the bass are.

You might post a question about your t motor on the boating section here on IFish.