Root Admin Phil Lilley Posted November 28, 2005 Root Admin Posted November 28, 2005 Windy, rainy, Sunday night- sounds like the perfect night to venture out to the dam and do some night fishing. Wrong! True I didn't stay for hours and I was there while the water was dropping out from a slow one unit but I didn't want to beat a dead horse. Fished below #2 stripping a couple of types of streamers, five colors of woolies, a sulpin and a muddler. I got two "nudges" on the muddler and one brown hooked in the tail with the sculpin. Can't say I don't report when it's bad fishing now can you! Oh yea- it hasn't been good the last 3 reports. I'm getting into a rhythm...
MOBass Posted November 28, 2005 Posted November 28, 2005 I fished during the day from Outlet 2 to Rebar and did good on Cracklebacks and Glo Balls. There was a big hatch going on (looked like midges but I don't know much about hatches) and my truck was covered with the little suckers when I left. I did catch a couple of fish on a scud just to mix things up. All of the better browns I caught on the crackle back were females and dropped eggs as I released. I am always gentle with the fish and leave them in the water and turn out the fly if I can but that didn't seem to matter. I know the eggs are going to be fish food most of the time anyways but is there a way to handle a fish so they won't drop the eggs? I also have a regs question. Can you use hard plastic egg imitations such as a bead in the trophy area? Looking at those eggs being dropped it got me thinking of better imitations.
Root Admin Phil Lilley Posted November 28, 2005 Author Root Admin Posted November 28, 2005 Handling- not sure if you can help it if you handle their bellies at all. And you're right about the eggs- they won't survive either way. Eggs - they're legal. Jimmy T uses a red bead with white yarn material tied around it, sluffing off like it's milking. Up in Michigan they're called a nuke egg. He calls them real eggs or something like that. The wind is really howling today- good day to strip a wooly I think. I may brave the cold and head up later this afternoon.
MOBass Posted November 28, 2005 Posted November 28, 2005 Handling- not sure if you can help it if you handle their bellies at all. And you're right about the eggs- they won't survive either way. Eggs - they're legal. Jimmy T uses a red bead with white yarn material tied around it, sluffing off like it's milking. Up in Michigan they're called a nuke egg. He calls them real eggs or something like that. The wind is really howling today- good day to strip a wooly I think. I may brave the cold and head up later this afternoon. Thanks for the regs info. I have some P-Line trout beads that match the size and color of the eggs those fish were droping. I like the yarn idea. These beads have a large center hole that would work good rigged with some yarn as stuffing so that it sits good on the hook. I am going to look for some small circle hooks because the fish are hitting that egg so hard they are taking it deep half the time. I am also looking at fishing larger glo balls to see what happens.
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