OH Dam 5-21-14
 

I fished the dam yesterday morning for the first time with a buddy. Launched the boat at 5:15 and fished until about 8. I wish I could say that we caught a bunch of fish but neither one of us put a single fish in the boat.

I came back after work looking for a little redemption. Every cow in every field was up grazing and I saw 8 or so deer on the way in. Thought maybe it was Mother Nature's way of telling me I was in for some fine fishing...NOPE! I threw everything I had at them until about 9 when I decided to call it a day fish-less (not even a skippie). I had one good bite on a white buck tail jig but it spit the hook after a couple short pulls of drag.

One other boat showed up around sunset. They blew the generator horn right when they got there so I fell back. They moved right up next to the 2nd generator as it came online and dropped anchor...

Seemed like everyone else there was fishing some sort of river rig. Big heavy weight with a spoon or something below it? Saw a couple fish caught but nothing huge. Water temp was 65.

Ill be back at it first of the week trying to get this monkey off my back.

-Alex

Were they also sluicing some or just generating?

I went to the dam on my lunchbreak yesterday and fished from the bank near the platform. I caught 1 white bass - probably 2 pounds+. There was a very small amount of water coming through 1 of the gates, but not enough to create any current.

Just generating 1 in the am that turned off at 8. Then two running when I got there in evening. Where is the sluice discharge?

Have they put a sluice on OH Dam?...or you all talking about spilling....as in spillways are open?



Regards

Not sure. If they have added one it wasnt running. And they certainly weren't spilling or I wouldn't have been down there.

-Alex

Do what yer name says as that area is a hot spot for Largemouth and smallies just float down stream and work the rocky sides.

Use grub tails... you will hang up but that is river fishing.

Alex, you want the gates to be spilling. That's what brings the stripers in to feed.
Anything around 20,000 cfs, get right up against the spilling gates and cast 5-6 inch white flukes on a 1/2-1 oz weighted head. and jig it back to the boat.
Can't be afraid of the swift water. If you are, you won't catch stripers at the dam.

Ask Mike Ernst or jad2t. Watched Mike wear'em out one day like that. First three casts, three rockfish....18-10-13#lb'ers. Next 30 minutes, he boated three cats 10-12 lbs. ea.

Me, I boated on scrawny 11 lb.'er.

Jad2t, best ask him!

No sluice discharge at OH. If they have to they open the spillway gates for oxygenation of the water or navigation levels. Generators run for power generation to reduce unneeded wear and tear on the units at normal water levels.

I am aware of the use of generators...spill gates....their use and such.....I think someone in the post has confused sluice with spilling. They do have a small sluice on JPP but I didn't think OH had a sluice gate as there is no need for one on that dam.



Regards

No sluice gates on OH. Just spillway gates to quickly dump water to keep lake levels constant to protect shoreline homes.

Four generators to generate electricity, six spillway gates to control water flow and elevations.

When they're spilling do they count this water/flow within the CFS reading with the generation?

Yep.


Mike