A friend of mine and I fished Deer Creek today from our kick boats. We launched at the "Dock of the Bay" ramp and fished the bay from the island and south. We were using fly tackle with sinking lines for #4 to #7 and various leeches, crystal buggers, and woolly bugger patterns in ginger, green/tan, pink, and olive. We had the best luck out in 20' - 40' of water but the fish were hooked in the upper 10' of the water column. All we caught were rainbows from 12" to 17" long. The water temperature was 37-38 degrees. The air temp was in the 20's when we got there at 8:30 and in the 40's when we left at around 2:30. The reservoir is 80% full and rising with no ice except up on the Charleston end. It was a beautiful day after the fog burned off and the fishing wasn't bad either.[
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Outstanding! Nice pics!
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Sweet![cool] I really need to get my toon out and ready to go.
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Looks like we still have a little open water left. Thanks for report.
Nice pictures
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Thanks.
Pretty much the whole reservoir is open water and the ramp where we put in was dry so there would be no problem launching any size boat.
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Wow I thought it was iced up. Good news. Thanks. Up2 if you wanna try give me a shout.
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Well I know where you're heading saturday[
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Here is a link to a live camera mounted at the top of the boat ramp. You can always check out the conditions before you go.
[url "http://www.livelakeview.com/lakes/deercreek/"]http://www.livelakeview.com/lakes/deercreek/[/url]
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Great news and thanks for the report. Hoping to get up there on Sunday with the pontoon. I've tried that camera link before and can never get it to work for some reason. I guess I'll just have to go see for myself. Thanks again.
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We drove by last night after a tubing trip (to Soldier Hollow on snow, not fishing).
The lake is still in the condition pictured above. The ice is creeping its way from Charleston but still mostly open water.
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Probably won't be able to get up there until Tuesday, hopefully it will still be open
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For what it's worth, Google chrome works every time, while IE never works.
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Thanks. I was using IE on both computers.
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Google Chrome works for the video link. Thanks
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[quote gofish435]Here is a link to a live camera mounted at the top of the boat ramp. You can always check out the conditions before you go.
[url "http://www.livelakeview.com/lakes/deercreek/"]http://www.livelakeview.com/lakes/deercreek/[/url][/quote]
Thats nice, thanks for the link. Looking at it this morning certainly won't have to worry about a parking place or a fishing spot. Looked pretty quiet on the lake, with one vehicle in the parking lot .
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Give the word. Boats are packed up but all accessible.
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Same here ,but can get loaded in a hurry.
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