The Spillway at Gillespie Lake

If you want a nice little location to hang out and maybe some decent fishing, go to the spillway at Old Gillespie Lake.  Wait for it to rain and the spillway to really flow, then give it a few days to quiet down.

 Fish (even big fish) get caught up in the dam and go down the spillway into the pools in the woods below, 2 before the road and one after.  If you show up a day or so after the rain, the fish have eaten everything available to them in the pools and have no where else to go and nothing else to eat. Prime fishing!!

Even if you don't catch anything, its a nice little place to play around in, just be careful of the exposed re-bar and concrete pieces, and of course watch for snakes.  We did see a water moccasin come down the spillway, so they definitely are there.

Directions to Gillespie Lake (from 55/Litchfield):

Go West on rt 16 towards Gillespie, and go through town.  Stay on 16.

Turn right (North) onto Dorchester rd and follow it to the dam.  The 'honey hole' I was talking about it on the curve right before the dam, you will see the spillway on the right and there is parking above and below the spillway.