I was invited to fish the Etowah River Sunday 6/3/04 in one of my buddies little Jon boat and ive never really fished the rivers much I don't know what to fish I would guess a jig pitched in to some blow downs would work pretty good. But that's about all I could think of but any advice would be great.

Thanks.

Fat Ika, Gitzit, grub, lizard.

you just through all that in blow downs or in the river channel. thanks for the tip RW

I got hooked on bass fishing when a bud took me fishing on a river for smallmouth in MD.  We had a Yum Dinger worm rigged with the hook poked through the middle. Senkos are the same thing it seems. From reading the boards we had our worms rigged wacky style and would toss them up stream and let em float down and twitch em every so often.

Worked like a champ

I fish the Alabama and Tombigbee Rivers here in Bama.My best baits are soft plastics and jigs around blowdowns.Having some chartruese and yellow dip or plastics that come with chart or yellow tails is the key here because the main forage is threadfin shad.

Let us know how you did and what worked.  The river could be a quiet place to fish now that the jet skis are on the lakes.

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Let us know how you did and what worked.  The river could be a quiet place to fish now that the jet skis are on the lakes.

yea thats one of the resones I really jumped on this invation lol. dose a wacky rigged senko not get hung up with all the brus in the rivers. thanks for all the help guys

I'd have checked river flow rates at somewhere like http://www.wetdawg.com/pages/white_dir_list.php?s=GA and have some idea about water movement on whatever part of the system I was going to. It looks to me like there was enough current in some places to fish eddies. If enough current to make eddies along the river I'd be watching for anything along the banks blocking current, where largemouths would be found. Jigs, stick baits, worms, whatever would be tried, swam downstream into the eddies.

Jim

white 4" lizards have been pretty lucky for me lately in the rivers.. come to think of it, those lizards got mixed in with some chartreuse worms and got faded....

i think i just answered my question - white/chartreuse would probably be the colors.

honestly, last time i fished this river a 1/8oz strike king spinnerbait in blue/chart/clear caught all kinds of fish all day long cuz that was the only thing i could get the bass to hit.

Go Wacky style with your Senko but turn the hook and put the tip back in the worm to make it weedless.

You will still get hung up but the percentage of getting hungup reduces greatly by fishing your Wacky rig weedless.

i would go with a slider rig, finesse worms, small grubs, finesse/spider jigs..