Yes sir. Floated it Thursday and Friday with my brother. Caught 30+ fish kept 9 on Thursday. Caught 50+ Friday kept 32. The flint is loaded... I wanna try paint rock river and some more spots on the flint. Got a few buddies that only fish the flint in Madison county. What part you fish?
Floated from Oscar Patterson to Winchester many years ago. Have waded a bit around the McMullen Cove landing but it's silty and can get iffy. The few fish I've caught were fun. Some nice largemouth and a solid smallmouth that shocked the bejeebers outta me.
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I've float fished various sections of the Flint from Oscar Patterson all the way to the Tennessee river. I've made roughly 15 runs this year. I love the Flint, it's a beautiful river ...
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I haven't floated upstream of OP before. I'm thinking about a run from Joe quick, through Walker LN, down to OP here in the next few weeks. Above Winchester rd and the Flint looks like a mountain stream, gorgeous ...
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i like the water better at walker (maybe because I live so close). To get from walker to OP is took 6h 15m one day and 5h 20 the next day, and that was with catching 50+ fish
When i went from OP to Winchester it took plenty of time, partly because my partner and I were big ol' boys and also because the water was low. Scenic but not optimal flow.
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Went OP to Winchester 3 or 4 weeks ago, took 6hr 30 min and caught 15 fish (11 bream, 3 smallies, 1 largie). I guess I gotta slow down a little if I wanna catch more fish
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What kind of fish are the large mouth blue gill looking critters? They look tasty! Do you float the river in canoe, kayak or ????
I want to do a nice float trip with my kayak in the fall and the Cahaba in our area is just way too sensitive to water flow to schedule anything. Any suggestions?
Hunting and fishing always fight each other for prime time!
Yeah I watch the water level at Brownsboro (Hwy 72) online, it can go up 10 feet in a day and be back to normal 2 days later. I've been duck hunting down below Clouds Cove and seen it rise a foot an hour
I think it is not regulated at all. I've been on most parts of it and there are no controls in place anyhere ... no dams ... nothing. I do notice that the water level all the way up to 431 is drastically effected by the Tennessee River level and I've seen it back flow at Clouds cove all the way up to Little Cove Rd
The Big Tuna is really cool in that its can be rigged as a tandem (2 seater) or you can take the seats out and re-rig one more toward the center for a single person. I opted for it instead of the Coosa because I wanted the larger capacity to carry gear with. With two people it takes a little getting used to but then it handles pretty well once you figure it out ... basically the one in front just paddles and alternates sides with each stroke. The one in back controls all steering and watches the one in front and paddles on the opposite side they are taking their stroke.
Just by myself this boat handles fantastic. It can run fast, turn pretty tight, and I've never had any balance issues with it. Standing up on it is not the most stable but once you get the hang of it it aint hard to do.
It is a little heavy ... close to 100 lbs rigged up. I bought a PWC trailer and stripped it down then set it up for my boat. A buddy of mine has one and we can stack them together on the trailer easily.
I've modded mine quite a bit. It has an anchor trolley on the left side and a track on the right side for my fish finder. I think I gave $1500 for it (without rudder) at Caney Fork Outdoors . I don't need the rudder since I don't go into big water ... just Flint so far. I probably have $2000 in it with the mods, $2200 with the trailer.
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The Flint and Paint Rock are free-flowing to the Tennessee. Gorgeous in some places, affected by chemical runoff from ag fields in some, but still quite nice.
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He fight like monsterhit it right by my kayak and when I set the hook he almost jumped over my kayak. Then he took off like a bat out of hell. He was fun and powerful..... very oily and boney
One nasty fish. Good catfish bait for sure. They always kinda gave up when I hooked one. Wouldn't try to catch one on purpose unless I was looking for bait. Did see a guy catch them on a fly rod over by Rock House landing that looked like he was having fun.
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I've always caught them below the dams and around the pump houses on the main river when they were de-watering the refuge. They seem to like water with lots of current.
First, you caught a 12-inch or bigger skipjack in the Flint?
Second, you ATE it?
Those things are catfish bait. The Asians eat them as sashimi, but I wouldn't. Blech.
They're incredibly fun to catch. If you're catching bait below a dam then a sabiki rig is a great way. I guess they'll hit whatever is small and resembles a tiny minnow.
Cool that you caught one. They do fight and jump like crazy. Poor Man's Tarpon. Fly fishing guys love 'em, too.
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Smart man. Friend of mine watched one of the Japanese pro anglers catch one from Elk River one day, sit on the front deck of the boat and start cutting slivers and eating it. Said they love it over there.
Great catfish bait. I knew the Flint had suckers but not skipjacks.
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Now that we have confirmed that it's a Skipjack, if you want to find some, Go fish the tailrace at Guntersville dam. There are plenty 20 inchers there. And yes they are fun on a fly rod, when nothing else is biting. Or put something shiny on like a spoon or roostertail and burn it through the current as fast as you can. They are the most acrobatic fish in the river. Blue Cats love em too.
haha... hey rocket you seen the water in the flint. i assume it rained yesterday. i was at work off of clinton and it looked like a nice day outside. when i got to new market and crossed the flint it looked to be 1-2 feet higher and milk chocolate. i hope it is under control come saturday
Yeah looks like it should drop to about 8.5 by Saturday. I hope so that is the water level we fished on the first pic I posted. We didn't catch as many as the second pic but we caught bigger fish
Well It's dropped almost 3ft. I went by Little Cove just now and it's beginning to soften up in color. If its green this time tomorrow we will be in luck
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Heck yeah thats a sweet set up! wish i could join you guys! Ive been wantin to hit the creek, just havnt had the time. Only floated the flint a hand full of times, Usually hit the paint rock river. Good fishing!
yeah come on IHP... you can do it. BTW where do you put in and get out on the paint rock? My brother was wanting to give it a try next time he comes in and I have never been there.
I do a bunch of different floats but you must have 2 vehicles. Back of estill fork, the bridge close to the church at bull run to henshaw crossing is a good float when the water is flowing, got to get out a bunch due to shallow water, but we have caught over 100 fish on that float. buddy caught a red eye that was dang close to the record, absolutely huge for a creek fish. prob 2.5 pounds. there is also a place or 2 to put in on the other side on co rd 9 and float to henshaw crossing.
put in at henshaw and there is another bridge 3 miles down or so you can pull out of, or go all the way down to behind hollytree, there is a place you can park there to.
The little strip mall in paint rock on the side of hwy 72, there is a place were you can drive back in there, park at the gate. put in there and go to hwy 72 bridge.
72 bridge to butlers mill is by far my favorite float!! great scenery, plenty of places to pull over and eat a snack or drink a beer butlers mill is kinda hard to explain how to get there unless you just know were it is, very pretty place there on the river.
From butlers mill on is very slow moving water, usually stay off that stretch.
431 bridge all the way out is a blast to but it takes forever!! no pull out spots really either, but we got 30 acre down at clouds cove, and i usually paddle all the way down and pull out on my property, its 3 miles down river from the mouth of the paint rock, 1 mile up river from the flint.
Ive floated the paint rock a lot. love to catch the red eye
I've duck hunted the Paint Rock but never fished it. In the 90's we would put in at Hwy 431, there was a launch on the east side there but that launch is gone now I believe
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I have wanted to duck hunt the flint. I have only seen wood ducks... is that all they get on the small rivers? Do they have a lot of people that duck hunt the flint or paint rock?
There is still a spot were you can pull under 431 bridge, there is even kinda a little washed out ramp to if i remember correctly.
Yeah yall would love hwy 72 to butlers mill, i see deer and turkey almost every trip down through there. absolutely gorgeous.
We will go one day, yall can do 431 to clouds cove to. but whenever we do that one were gonna have to get out early. took me 10.5 hours last time and only fished half the time.
yeah that would be great. i did some duck hunting in LA before I moved here. I would like to do some duck hunting again.
Most of the Flint is woodies only unless it breaks the banks and runs off into crops and then you have to have the owners permission to hunt it. Below Clouds Cove is woodies/teal and big ducks. Big ducks are not there 98% of the time but when they are, its a madhouse
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Without fishing and assuming Brownsboro measures at 8-9 feet, you can expect this (not counting fishing time) :
72 to Little Cove : 3-4 hours Little Cove to Old 431 : 3-4 hours Old 431 to 431 : 1/2 - 1 hours 431 to Old Big Cove Rd : 3-4 hours Old Big Cove Rd to Hobbs Island : 3-4 hours Hobbs Island to Clouds Cove : 1 hour
Total : 12 to 17 hours
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that would be about right. I think we talked about doing 6 hours a day or so... with catching our own food and setting up camp. also a little extra time depending on what we ran across
That far up the Flint and the wading opportunities are excellent. We got out at several points and wade fished. Most of it had a lot of tree cover but there were still plenty of places you could fly fish. I'd like to go back sometime and give that a shot
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