Preston Area Reservoirs?

[duksnfish]

I tried about every color just to see and red/white was the best thing tipped with night crawler. If you do go, dont forget to get your boat inspected at one of the inspection stations before you get to Glendale and then cough up $20 buck

Red and white, I haven't tried that color in a while, thanks for the info. $20 for an inspection, that would get expensive it you went there often but good to know, thanks.

The 20 is for out of county folks, it's 10 for in county. And many of us tried to push a different approach to this many years ago but didnt succeed. We tried for half that for everyone and said that the amount of revenue would go way above and beyond what they are collecting now, but, it didnt work.  And, this is all part of the reasoning that the County and City of Preston stopped giving the canal companies any seed money to help try to offset costs of having people at the boat launch sites.  But, the cost of not getting any money from outside sources came with a cost.  The waters started closing earlier and earlier in August instead of after Labor day.  One advantage it did have was the out of state families who came up almost every day with their tube and ski boats has really slowed down.  In fact I didnt see one of them when I was there the other day and it was the warmest day in a long time. 

And the 20 isnt the most expensive part of it either.  Having to drive to Franklin, if your not near another inspections station, gets expensive driving an additional 20 or so miles towing the boat, to Franklin and back, in cost of vehicle gas money.  Ok ill stop on this as I get my blood to boil on it as it was a passion that I've always had since they started the check system and I've had to just put it off and decided that it was a cost of doing fishing if I wanted to catch any pan fish on this side of the state.  Good luck on the jigs, and I was also using a small medium size lead head jig, cant remember the weight, but let it sink to about 6-8 feet either cast and retrieve or troll slow enough to keep it at about that depth.  Have fun.