Fishing Lake Gaston at the end of July. Anyone have luck around Great Creek area? We're staying in the west side across from Great Creek and am wondering if there will be good bass fishing. I don't hear too much about the apparent thermocline that limits the bass fishing below 20'.

I was working on a customer's house on Great Creek all week. The Creek was very busy with PWC, wake boarders, and skiers. It may have just the week it was. I got out on the water for about six hours on Friday didn't do anything on the main lake, very hard to fish with all the traffic. We made our way into Six Pound Creek and caught three small spotted bass on the points. I talked to another guy  that was there all week, he said he never really got on them. He did better running up the river.

I'm going back down there in two weeks to work again. So I'm going to take another swing at them. I met a guy that just moved down there and he is trying to figure them out as well,  so I'm going out with and we scratch our heads together. 

Good luck, let us know how you do.

in general on Gaston I've had best luck finding rocks and fishing them. There is a TON of grass all along the shore throughout gaston and makes it hard to pick apart. Best bet is to find flats to ledges from the shore, if it has rocks even better, some cover better than nothing. 

 

As mentioned wake boat traffic might dictate where you wont be fishing.