trout4me

I rarely post on here because I have little time to fish...but enjoy reading of others' successes. I want you to be really cautious based on a recent experience: My son and I did have the opportunity to come down on the first week of August to fish one evening. Plan was to launch at the landing (letting my wife shop) and boat up to the dam. Lot's of water moving, so I'm sure they were running 4 units. Everything working as planned until we approached the Trout Hollow dock, and slowed down for 3 people in kayaks. They were spread about 50 yards apart when I noticed the last kayak flipping over, most likely due to the wakes of the boats ahead of mine. I pointed to the guy in the first kayak, but the current was too swift for him to turn around and get back upstream to help. I motioned that I would help, and motored up to the person. I found a 20's age girl clinging to the side of a dock with no life jacket on begging for help. The current was so strong we had a really hard time getting the boat in position for my son to grab the dock so we could help her. After us both finally grabbing the dock he put his life jacket on her, and I jumped on the dock to pull on her onto the dock. I'm afraid if she let go, she would have been swept into or under the next dock......and who knows how that would have gone. I'm not looking for praise......I just want people to be extra cautious! Any by all means....please wear a life jacket. I told her to thank the Lord that we were there at that time. Things don't happen by accident.

Nice video! Just curious....what weight line do you use? Must be larger than 2lb to be able to lift a nice fish out without a net. Thanks.

Arrived at to Beaver Creek around 7am Saturday morning & fished until ~noon. Between the 3 of us, we caught 3 'small' largemouth; 1 undersized crappie, and a walleye. No white bass whatsover. There were probably 3 boats in the creek when we arrived; and probably 25 when we left. Talked to the water patrol, and he said he hadn't seen a person catch a fish. Water temps ranged from 50 - 52 degrees. Fishing could have been better....but it sure was great weather.

I can only visit Taney a few times a year and had heard of the 'shuffle' but am usually too focused on fishing myself to pay much attention to others. I saw this same group and thought it was pretty ridiculous what they were doing. The funniest thing to me was they couldn't hardly catch anything.....but another kid in their group was throwing a crankbait on his spincast and wound up catching a 22" rainbow