Lancer09

I fished the river just down from the dam last night and found the green sunfish and pumpkinseed boutiful. Unfortunately i didn't catch any bass and the water was really, really warm. I moved up and right after the first little riffle area where it is really shallow there was a family snagging there which I thought I was illegal. I saw numerous spoonbill and they were purposefully trying to snag them but they always got broken off and never actually caught a single fish, although they somehow broke "30 lb test" like six times. I was reading the regs and the limit says 2 spoonbill b/w march 15 and APR 30. For non game fish snagging/grabbing is march 15-May15, and Sept 15-Jan31 on streams and impounded waters. It is allowed all year in "temporary overflow of a river or ditch. From this I believe this entire family, and some others that were snagging around were completely illegal. If they were in season that wasn't for spoonbill, though "targeting" them they coudl say they were an accidental catch and just release them, Same with game fish and just say they were tryign to snag gar or carp or something. I have got the MDC # saved in my phone now, Should I give them a call if I see this again. All said adn done there had to be 15 people all snagging in 1/4 mile of river.

That is a good crappie, Quite a few years ago, when I was 3 I caught a 21.5 incher but was pretty skinny, She only went about three pounds but was long as could be. Had it mounted, and subsequently got stolen, but someday I might have a replica made. I have also seen some big ones come out of table rock.

Hi guys, new here. First post. I have been fishing crane, and actually work with andrew234 and he seems to have the trout here dialed in. Me on the other hand typically fish warm water and am really having some problems with the trout on crane. I went last night and couldn't figure them out. I fished the park section and had a few hits from good trout on a hopper below the bridge but they were just rolling over the top and not getting the thing. I tried Green psycho princes as well as orange ones. DH and hentry's fork hopppers.pheasant tails and chartreuse copper johns, yellow eggs and adams. I saw a pair of good ones and couldn't get them to bite a small circus peanut. A few of teh smaler trout were literally jumping out fo the water after something but i couldn't see a hatch coming off. In four trips down there I have caught one trout. Last night I caught a decent sucker on the egg, and a small chub or something on the adams. I have been fishing 12's through 16's on my flies, mostly twelves. They were seriously spooky as well. I was belly crawling to the edge to fish and they still spooked. I was getting a lot of swipes or swim up and takes but nothign. I was using 4 lb moss green mono as tippit, Should i switch to 2?. Also around the bend in the creek the trout were holding in the near side with little to no current but a drift wasn't possible there. What do you guys do that works so well for you. I don't want your secrets, just some guidance.