So, in a never-ending cycle to find places me and one of my buddies can go fish that doesn't require a boat, we found a shallow part of the local river that we can actually walk through.  We tend to walk straight out to the middle and then head up and down the river fishing fallen trees and other structure that, combined with the current over it, causes deeper holes even in the shallower water conditions.  The water is beautiful, clear and warm, and the fishing has been pretty good.  Only draw back was that we forgot bug spray the first night and on the way back we were eaten up before we reached the car.

So another great area to fish, that has definitely been productive.  Brighter colored lizards seem to work wonders and top water lures produce as well.  We went back up there last night (prepared with bug spray this time) and had another good night.  My buddy picked up one with a popper frog and another with a lime green ribbon tail worm.  I picked up 3, 2 on a "camo" (blue and redish laminate with flakes) baby bush hog and 1 on a junebug/char tail lizard.  On the way back to the boat ramp where we went in I decided to make one last cast into what I thought was a nice pocket.  I noticed my line was moving down river even though I know the lure had hit the bottom and shouldn't be moving.  I felt the fish and set the hook, and saw a beautiful flash below the surface of the water.  I start reeling in only to notice two logs under the water.  Before I could get full control of the fish, he dove back down, up and over the two logs...  by the time I made it over to where he was, he had gotten free and my lure was stuck between two logs.  It was kind of a let down to lose a fish that way, but it's happened before and I'm sure it will happen again.

Here is one fish from last night.

That's beautiful!

8-)

Must be nice, you step in the water around here and theres a good chance your gonna lose a leg.

Must be nice, you step in the water around here and theres a good chance your gonna lose a leg.

Or more (referring to Florida fishing)  

Looks like a beautiful place to fish!   I grew up next to the Neversink river in NY state and would wade fish different sections of the river...cept, back then I didn't know what a bass was.  

Man! That is some beautiful water !!!

                As Ever,

                 skillet

Yeah we have been lucky.  Due to the drought the reservoirs up the river have been holding more water in apparently.  It's the clearest it's been in years.

What river are you fishing? I fish the Yadkin sometimes...

That would be the Tar River, it flows right through Greenville, NC which is about 10-15 min from where I live.  It's a good 30 minutes to this spot in Falkland though.  But it's been productive each time.

The Yadkin is over near Albemarle, iirc, which is a good 3-3 1/2 hour drive from where I'm at.  I drive over it if I take highway 64/49 to Charlotte (family that way).  How's the fishing there?

We have come up with a few rules though, like get out of the water well before dark... two things happen when the sun goes down and the moon comes up (things you think we would have been obvious in the first place) - massive amounts of mosquitoes that weren't around before and water snakes.

the mosquitos would bother me more then the water snakes.  Looks like a nice peaceful place to fish.

I fish the Yadkin river where it separates Yadkin County from Forsyth County. (NorthWest NC) We have land that joins the river, and I am close enough I can ride my 4-wheeler there. The fishing here is decent. I am still learning how to fish rivers!

Yeah that is pretty far from here, the Yadkin is a big river.

And I'm still learning a bit as well.  Biggest thing I've learned recently is that structure is of course great in rivers as well, even when they get shallow.  That current flowing over the structure causes pockets under and on the other side.  Great places for fish to hide.  That and learning to compensate for the current pulling your bait down river are really the two big things I'm working on right now.

Yeah that is pretty far from here, the Yadkin is a big river.

And I'm still learning a bit as well. Biggest thing I've learned recently is that structure is of course great in rivers as well, even when they get shallow. That current flowing over the structure causes pockets under and on the other side. Great places for fish to hide. That and learning to compensate for the current pulling your bait down river are really the two big things I'm working on right now.

True that!!