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Originally Posted by jad2t
I've been to Rock Island to swim but never fished. I've heard about this "blue hole" but isn't that the hole where everyone cliff jumps? There are walleye in there? I'd love to fish for them at Rock Island but it's a long drive for me that may not be worth it if I don't know exactly where to go. At least I know this time of year there won't be anyone swimming so I should have plenty of fishing opportunities. For Saturday I still plan to fish right below Center Hill Dam but in the future I'd like to try Rock Island. I vaguely remember that place, I do recall some shallow streams and then two small but deep bodies of water where people swim and cliff jump. Where am I looking to fish?
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I usually fished up there from late February on through spring and early summer. Blue hole you park in the park and have to walk a mile down many steps to get to, but yes you will catch walleye right off the bank there. Lots of Walleye are also caught where the boat ramp is, there is a bottleneck to the right where it is hard to pass with most boats. You will see boats lined up there mostly vertical jigging and drifting back, over and over, not a good place to fish from the bank but it will give you an idea of how many walleye are there. The other best place to fish from the bank there is to go back out of the park and take a left, then a left again to go over the dam, then back around to the left till you get to the upper access area, forget what it is really called, find it on a map first. Water comes accross from great falls lake there and it is shallow, and swift. Good numbers of Walleye, spots, and smallmouth inhabit those waters and no boats make it up that far.