Root Admin Phil Lilley Posted May 9, 2008 Root Admin Posted May 9, 2008 Headed out after the office closed at 6 pm. Wanted to catch some fish tonight so went to the cable and started throwing the 1/8th oz white jig. They had dropped the flow to may be 2 units. Didn't get a bite till I got to the first of the Big Hole- then one bite, one big head shake. Fought that fish all the way to the boat ramp. It may have been the longest and hardest fighting trout I've caught on Taney. 23 inches - a beautiful bow. Kept it in the water and wanted to take some great pics of it... but one click and my battery went dead. At the end of the rock at KOA, I started picking up more rainbows on the jig all the way to Lookout Island. Then drifted and fished the jig on the bluff side to the narrows and picked up a few rainbows- slow. I dinked around the island a little with the fly rod but they weren't coming up on midges very much. Finished the evening drifting the bluff bank throwing a Husky Jerk and missed alot more than I landed... nothing big.
loo10 Posted May 9, 2008 Posted May 9, 2008 Nice fish Phil. Congrats. You dragging or jigging those jigs? Rich Looten Springfield, Missouri "If people don't occasionally walk away from you shaking their heads, you're doing something wrong."- John Gierach
Root Admin Phil Lilley Posted May 9, 2008 Author Root Admin Posted May 9, 2008 Work it down to the bottom and "hop" it and "drop" it.
Root Admin Phil Lilley Posted May 9, 2008 Author Root Admin Posted May 9, 2008 I did notice, for those interested, outlet #3 was very wadeable last evening and no one was on it. I"m sure it's wadeable in the mornings too- like right now it's still pretty low and slow. It should hold some fish, esp the lower end where it drops off.
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