I have spent a total of 2 days fishing Wilson, so take this with a grain of salt. I went up 3 years ago for the purpose of catching a smallmouth, something I had never done before. I fished the tailrace below Wheeler the first day and didn't catch much of anything. Tried it a couple hours the next morning and got skunked again. I didn't know what I was doing, but nobody was catching any. It was mid November and they were supposed to be there according to those who fished it a lot, but they just weren't there.

So I went up Bluewater creek and just started bass fishing and caught a couple of smallmouth and several largemouth. Most of them were on the outside of the horseshoe about a mile up the creek. Good luck!


All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.