Thread: Stump thumpin'

In 1993 a fellow fisher taught me this tecnique on Wiess lk. Al. fall fishing.
On a lot of the creek channels on this lake, they cut timber right down to the bank of the creek before they filled it up. With 65' water in Oct. We slayed em' by taking a tandum straightline rig with minnows, and dropped it straight to the stumps and bounced it off of the top of them. Catching doubles was not uncommon. We fish Russell mainly since it filled, and I have not found similar structure on any of the creeks. As I can't look at the depthfinder all day, I was thinking maybe some of you may have found such. I was told that almost all small timber was left uncut. Although before they filled it up, I saw huge acreage cut out down to stumps. Who Knows?

Lots and lots of standing timber. Before the lake filled a few of us did a good bit of turkey hunting in coves where the lake was to be and everything in those coves were bulldozered. I cannot remember anywhere where trees were cut leaving stumps standing.

Although.......now that I think about it, I do remember the corps having an auction in Calhoun Falls, SC selling a fleet of tree topping alum. boats and motors, along with some badly abused chainsaws many years ago. I was told that as the lake filled there were crews topping trees. I dont know where all this was supposed to be happening though. I never will forget those boats though. Back in the day, a jon boat was just a jon boat. Those things they were selling were HUGH and looked to weigh a ton. If I remember correctly they were probably 16' long and about 6'-8' wide. I dont know...but you could contact the corp of Eng.'s and see if they can tell ya anything about the topping going on when the lake was filling up.

welcome from,al

Thank you. The only vivid memories I have are; Wilson cr & r.r. where in the back mile they dozed the creek banks in some areas, and cut to stumps on the shallow banks. The Ga. side of gregg shoals dam area in the flats s.e. of the mouth of pickens creek, was a mixture of dozing and topping young trees, they harvested most of the big trees. And of course the big water area at the dam a lot of dozing.
I wonder if anyone at the corp. is old enough to remember? I'll give it a try though.
If you ever get the opportunity to fish a lake with stumpy creek channels, 12-20' deep, It's a bet in the fall. And prespawn I would imagine.