I second Jesters advice. If nothing else go to Taneycome and sit at one of the courtesy docks by the landing with some powerbait and 4lb line and you will for sure get some trout.
Cut Zinker Z's in half and you get 12 baits instead of the 8 in the TRD package. Let it soak like live bait for 30 second or so before you give it a twitch.
Or the upper Bull forum. There is a bait shop in Forsyth that sells live bait, not sure what all he carries or what time he opens. As far as yellow perch it is a total crap shoot. Specifically targeting them would be very difficult since they are pretty rare. I usually catch one or two per year trolling flicker shads or crappie fishing, but it is a total random occurance
I hit a boat in the middle of the lake once that had no light on, it drifted off from Kimberling Inn. Luckily i was in a sailboat going about 4mph, but it still felt very hard and knocked us into the floor. I was in the back of a 26ft boat just driving along, even going that slow i never saw that little bass boat
Whites are hard to track down this time of year. Usually they show up randomly and are gone just as quick. Crappie arent the best on that part of the lake either. Im sure they are around, but not in the numbers like other lakes. Someone else may know where to find a few around there. Throwing worms for some big gills would probably be a lot more fruitful for the youngsters
That so awesome. I wonder if those guys are tired of the numbers game. His excitement for finding largemouth would make one think that. He has been successful in both 5 bigs and numbers game though
They also gave us some Lews rods. Pretty well ran tournament, they gave every boat 2 bas of ice when they did livewell checks, also at weigh in, free jerky, t-shirts, waters. IT was a fun day
I think 81 boats showed up. took over 18 to win. I had 14.97 to get the last little check. Its always the story of the one that got a way. Had a 4.5+ come off right at the net. Would have bumped me up to 2nd or 3rd. We caught them on Spoons, jigs, and on Top with a walking bait.
When i used to eat trout i would just boat up to monkey island from Scotty's anchor up my little jon boat behind the island in the eddy and throw any color power bait you want on a #10 hook with 4 lb line pretty simple. Its also fun to trow little rapalas or jigs at them. You could always troll little rapalas or flicker shads around the landing and catch quite a few. Ive always caught lots on the down stream side of the White river fish house in the little eddy it makes. As far as regulations, youll just need a trout stamp if you want to keep them