bigredbirdfan

Let me start off by addressing what I know and let other provide what I don't. You will need your spinning reels loaded with line no bigger than 4lb. I use monofiliment and after spending a lot of wasted money on over priced line and now use Pro Bass Excel because it is just as good as any other line. I digress. You can NOT use bait below the dam, only below fall creek which is clearly posted by signage on the water. If you want to use bait I suggest you rent a boat at Lilley's Landing and they will help you with everything you need bait wise. It should be either inflated nightcawler or powerbait in color d'jour. In regards to keeping big fish below the dam it has to be over 20" or under 12" in that area so usually if you want to take home fish you want under 12" otherwise rent a boat and stay below fall creek and keep whatever you like. I would probably do that because you will catch a lot of bigger fish in the 15" range if you do. You can keep 4 ea. Brown trout don't taste very good due to their color so you should not keep those.

I don't know about McDaniel. It might be no boats. Fellows is 40 hp or under. Spfd Lake is 6hp max and the only method is pole...so...no jugs. Believe you can have three poles per person though so you could have six in a boat that should be enough to find some cats.

I fished thursnight as well with buzz bait and hula popper. I picked up one fish on a hundred casts. I don't normally fish out there so I may have been in unproductive spots. I picked my one fish up at the park. Need some serious help on this water. Also would like to fish up the river a ways. Any suggestions up there on what to throw?

Thanks for the very nice detailed report. You don't realize how much typing goes into a report of this length until you type one up. I didn't make out this weekend but look forward to later this week. Can two pd vanish be used as a leader for the micro jigs or does something thinner need to be used? Additionally, is there some kind of rule of thumb on float size to jig size?

Is anyone aware of any river outfitters that rent solo canoes? Not really interested in kayaks.

nice fish boys. I'll be down to fish tomorrow. It sure is nice to have someone in the boat to take such good pics. I take mine alone since the poodle can't work a camera.

did they take the egg at all or just the scuds? good info thx for the report.

My recent trip was last two days. My brown was actually end of march. On the jigs I would guess them as green and olive by the way they looked wet. Those are the ones they wouldn't stay off of. I will try to post a pic of the ones I would like to see made.

thanks, first one on taney. many on the white river. hopefully more to come.

I was off work unpaid for two days so I decided to spend them fishing on Taney. Didn't get to the lake until the heat of the day wednesday at 2:00 and started off working the landing area where I managed to pick up a half dozen or so fish (12-14 inches)on jigs. I proceeded to lookout where I stayed until 7:00 and picked up probably another half dozen fish(12-14 inches). All on a rather light colored scuplin jig. Another boat was pitching what they called sculpin pumpkin. Never seen such a thing for sale before. I have had really good luck on a light green and olive jig and the same with ginger called a tri colored jig. I wish someone would stock them on the water so I won't have to get them shipped to me. As a side note round headed jigs catch far less fish than the ones with slightly flattend or the best which are a special oblongated mold, but again you must order those from white river zig jigs. By far the best jigs period. Day two I went to lookout and drifted it three to four times picking up 5-6 nice fish on a green and olive sculpin jig 1/8 oz from Lilley's then around 10:30 that bite dropped off and I motored up the the hatchery area and fished 1/50 oz jig and float with 9' of flurcarbon leader. The water level started to drop and nine feet was too much. I went down past fall creek and jig fished in spots back to the landing where I picked up about 25 fish. All in all good fighting good quality eating fish although I released them all. Nothing of really big size but big thick chunks. You have to be willing to switch jig colors but you must be willing to stick with one for a while as well. Did not try white because I was doing well with others. I hope this helps. As a side note I caught my first brown on taney last month 17 inches on a white jig. Tremedously rewarding experience.

is that thing too fat to breath?

hilarious

Does the nature center have a lake map? Or is there one online somewhere that you guys know of? Thanks BRBF

lol or at least don't question his techniques

He is my saturday report. The fishing in both Swan and Beaver was awful. The rain completely fouled it up. Would like to know if it improved sunday?

His work looks great. His sales might be handeled by a management company of sorts.

Thanks for the report. What is the most effective technique on the jig?

Your dead wrong eric. Most of the richest Americans earned it. Take a look. Most of them earned it through hard work. I'm sure you would agree. Gates, Ellison, Buffett...all hard workers that started with squat. http://www.forbes.co...tml?partner=aol BTW what right do you have to say someone else didn't work really hard to pass down that money to their heirs? Class evny plan and simple. It's what espires me to work hard to some day be like them. Not to hate them because of their success. I'm done with this stuff. BTW Thom was right the FED did post a 50 billion profit last year. Maybe we could apply that to the 12 trillion dollar debt.

Maybe 95% aren't as smart as the 5%. Maybe 95% spend ever last penny of their paychecks like drunken sailors and 5% save 99 cents out of every dollar. Maybe the 5% put their money on the line so the 95% can have a job. And maybe just maybe the 5% will have enough of supporting the have nots in the country and stop working and footing the bill for all this crap.

Thank you tremendously

Gentlemen please explain what you refer to on these obstacles for those of us who will be fishing up in there for the second time.

Id say those fish aren't in there yet. Stagging themselves right outside of the mouth. Has anyone graphed them yet around there?

How deep are these fish typically? Are they all over the graph when your in them?

which humminbird are you going with? where will you mount it?

I wonder why the fly fisherman manage to squash only the rainbow eggs and not the brown eggs? I too have caught very small rainbows all over the lake.