Fished the dogpound near madden couple months ago with a pal and we hiked for a bit to see no sign of life for a large stretch. Returned closer to Bottrel and seen few, caught one. Does anyone know if this creek has been dammed between bottrel and madden or if it's true the water gets warmer as it fights through the prairie and it's not ideal at that point?
Anyone have luck this year on it? I try to follow the maps but it's not clearly named so I am wondering what it's tribuitaries are and if it is fed by the bow at all because it seems to be on much higher lands than the bows valley! Any info would be appreciated!
Nah same creek, was by madden, range road 292 with the fresh new pavement and that bridge that goes over it. Hiked upstream(southwest) from there about half an hour almost to highway 22 bridge. Quite desolent. On such a hike anywhere else I would have seen much more signs of life and rises along the way.
Buddy of mine has a mile or so of Dogpound running through the middle of his property west of the #22...he told me the flood had quit an effect on his section in that the bigger fish are few and far between but there are plenty of smaller fish, 8"-12" Browns! Most of the bank habitat that was constructed by TU is now gone making the creek wider, shallower and quite warm...no good for bigger fish assuming they survived!!
sound like you were fishing two different creeks. The creek that goes through Madden is the beaver dam creek. The Dogpound heads north at Dogpound.
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Originally Posted by Moefoe
Buddy of mine has a mile or so of Dogpound running through the middle of his property west of the #22...he told me the flood had quit an effect on his section in that the bigger fish are few and far between but there are plenty of smaller fish, 8"-12" Browns! Most of the bank habitat that was constructed by TU is now gone making the creek wider, shallower and quite warm...no good for bigger fish assuming they survived!!
Yea fair enough. I heard many tales from an older coworker who's dad and grandpa fished it steady in their youth but maybe it isn't the fishery that it once was.
Dogpound faired very well after the flood way bigger fish this year on average. Mind you I fish upstream of the area your talking about. I have fished the tu area a few times and it is a very difficult stretch to fish. Lots of undercut banks and deep mud bottoms. If your just walking up the shore you can watch the browns scurry out from the banks as you walk. As for the flood it wasn't that bad up where I fish maybe further down it was worse.
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