May 23 & 24 Spinfishing In The Catch & Release

[cotterboy2007]

Me and Steve Brigman fished from noon on 5-23-08 til dark and early AM on 5-24-08. We had an excellent day on Friday with Steve catching numerous browns and about a 2 pound cutt on a gold countdown with a single hook of course. His big brown of the day was just short of 5 pounds. Saturday morning was not quite as productive, but we caught a few nice fish before the storms rolled in. A 3/32 oz all brown jig was the ticket. They would not hardly touch any other color(ginger, olive, brown/orange) we tried and the 1/8 oz was just a little too heavy for the water that was in rim shoals. Really had to keep the jig moving for the fish to really attack it. Normally we sort of drift them with the current, but that was not very effective. Here are a couple of pictures of some decent fish we caught.

[rps]

Nice fish! Rim Shoals is a terrific area.

[Jeremy Hunt]

Great day at Rim I would say. Nice fish, the cutt is a little bigger then the average cutts I see at Rim. Like it!!! Where exactly did you hook it if you don't mind sharing.

[cotterboy2007]

right in the middle of the river just below the 1st island. We also saw another boat catch one about the same size a little earlier in the day. By the way, we were the only people in this run for most of the day. I think the lower end of the C&R sees very little pressure