I went today 3/10/21 to arrowhead. Wanted to get there at 9 am but was on my brothers time so we got there at close to 1. About 2 ft of draw down on the bank and no water movement. The shad were steady on sabikis and catchable on grubs. My brother, my dad and i went and the old man cleaned house. He caught probably 25 shad 4 herring and a cat, bro caught 5 or 6 shad a cat and 4 herring and i got 5 or 6 shad. The old man had different sabikis and weight throughout the day so it was how he jigged it. Cats on cut herring on a carolina rig tossed in the middle only cat fished for about an hr. The guy in front of us was the hot boat and he was chumming with garlic. 100 percent chumming with garlic. Pouring it on his sabiki and in the water and he was out catching everyone about 5 to 1 most of the time i was there until my old man went from steady to hot and cleaned up on them toward the end. He was imo the best spot and we were in the second best. I think we might of got the down stream chum effect.
My thoughts on the bite. Mid day high sun mirror calm slowed the bite more then the lack of water flow did.The shad may bite wind related and light related more then current related when currents are slow. Most our bites came when a breeze came and after noticing the pattern it happened 3 more times. Air pressure, a little wind current, ripple effect idk but it happened a total of 6 times that i counted. Once the sun started to fall the bite improved. After 3 oclock the herring showed up slowly as it got they seemed to be more active as did the shad. After 4 they were busting the surface all over as we were leaving to head to Music Man BBQ. Dnr trucks parked around but no officers to be seen.
If you have thoughts about going go. The morning and afternoon have better bites most the time.
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Some big girls there still.
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Don’t go on a Thursday, I was there from daylight til 1400 and it sucked.Got six total with one small roe.Water was running when I got there and then they cut it off at 1130.Damifino?Worst day I’ve had since they started running water thru arrowhead.Every dog has his day I reckon.haha
Nobody else was doing any good either you smart dicks.There was a fella fishing off the bank by the track,had a helluva fine looking broad with him,was that you ted?
Thursday could of sucked because Wednesday afternoon they cut the water on at wilsons landing. It was insane how much current it had. It was dead water up stream from arrowhead and absolutely ripping from the landing down.
Got to fish the Veterans Event at the dam on the rediversion. Epic is an understatement, limit of Shad in no time. 12 nice stripers released & if I would’ve brought catfish stuff I could’ve filled a cooler. Some big cats caught.
Arrow head 4 6 21 high water heavy current and steady wind fished around 10 minutes with no action left side by the bridge if your facing the bridge. Talked to a few people and looked at what a few others were fishing the crowd is split and thinned way out. Half shad and herring fishers, half striper and cat fish. Some older gentlemen i asked for a report from asked if i wanted some fish. They gave me some shad and herring so i got what i came for.
Pulling the rods out the boat in a nat storm and bang. Popped the sabiki and bent the hooks so it was hard to pull out. Had to pull till it unbent to push it out
Hey stlhunr ,you and red better get out there and get some of them big redbreast before they all get caught out.They was biting yesterday. I could not start a new topic.
