Stoner Creek - Just down from PP Dam

[JKTrevecca]

Hello all. You don't know me but I've been following your forums since 2009 most every week. I'd love to meet some of you guys and put faces with names.

I thought I'd share a little for the first time just for the heck of it.

Cabin fever got the best of me yesterday so I headed out in the rain, wind, and cold to the stones river. I put in at the heartland park ramp, fished the points where the stones dumps into the cumberland for about an hour with no luck. Fired up the boat and headed up-stream. WOW! That was a ton of fun. I caught 2 nice size hybrids/white bass, a ton of blue gill, and a regular size white bass.

I was fishing ultralight tackle with a strike king bitsy minnow. I have very little skill so anytime I find a mess of fish that are willing to bite, I feel like I'm in heaven. Even if I am soaking wet and freezing cold.

thanks for reading. hope ya'll are having a great evening and good luck out there!

[nofish]

Great post! Congratulations on your catches. I'm in the same boat as you. I've always been scared to take my boat that far up the stones due to the low water. When I was a teenager me and my best friend used to go down river road off of Lebanon rd by ravenwood country club and fish with nightcrawlers under bobbers. Every now and then we would get into schools of white bass and boy was it a blast. We would carry 4-6 poles and they would hit em so fast we couldn't keep up.

[j19bill]

Love when i find a mess of hungry fish. Congrats!

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[nofish]

Originally Posted by JKTrevecca

Hello all. You don't know me but I've been following your forums since 2009 most every week. I'd love to meet some of you guys and put faces with names.

I thought I'd share a little for the first time just for the heck of it.

Cabin fever got the best of me yesterday so I headed out in the rain, wind, and cold to the stones river. I put in at the heartland park ramp, fished the points where the stones dumps into the cumberland for about an hour with no luck. Fired up the boat and headed up-stream towards the dam. Immediately after passing under the lebanon rd bridge, I saw "stoner creek"? on the left bank and stopped in to see what it might be holding. WOW! That was a ton of fun. I caught 2 nice size hybrids/white bass, a ton of blue gill, and a regular size white bass. I swear that that creek is FULL of fish. The screen on my piece of junk depth finder was peppered with arches.

Have any of you fished this area? How do you get there when the water levels are low? I have put in at heartland park several times but have never had the guts to go that far towards the dam because it gets really shallow around the lebanon rd bridge and I didn't want to rip the skeg off my boat. The water was 6-8 feet higher than it usually is and I can't wait to go back this weekend.

I was fishing ultralight tackle with a strike king bitsy minnow. I have very little skill so anytime I find a mess of fish that are willing to bite, I feel like I'm in heaven. Even if I am soaking wet and freezing cold.

thanks for reading. hope ya'll are having a great evening and good luck out there!

Sent you a pm

[bigbird]

Originally Posted by nofish

Great post! Congratulations on your catches. I'm in the same boat as you. I've always been scared to take my boat that far up the stones due to the low water. When I was a teenager me and my best friend used to go down river road off of Lebanon rd by ravenwood country club and fish with nightcrawlers under bobbers. Every now and then we would get into schools of white bass and boy was it a blast. We would carry 4-6 poles and they would hit em so fast we couldn't keep up.

I used to swim at Ravenwood and always wondered if you couild catch anything there.

[blink]

I was fishing from the greenway trail the other day, and where Stoner dumps into the Stones i could see something just tearing up the baitfish. It was the other bank though, way outside my casting range.