June 27 & 28 Report

[bigredbirdfan]

Fished with two friends and another boat of friends for two days above fall creek.

Here are my observations: It was very hot saturday. We fished 1/50 oz jigs with strike indicators. My advice to those who haven't used this method before is be mindful of the depth of the water. The jig cannot be high and off the bottom and out of sight to fish on the bottom and it can't drag the bottom either. So sometimes we needed 5 foot of leader material and others just a couple of feet. I was the only one who had any good results on the indicator after figuring this out. Also pink, scauplin and white where mentioned as good colors. We watched the boat next to us wearing out knots on olive green. I caught maybe 10 fish on the scaulpin and one was caught on pink none on white. The other boat switch to 1/8 and 1/16 oz jigs w/o indicators and did well one green and black poppint them off the bottom. Did I mention it was hot.

Then today upon the recommendations at Scotty's trout dock I jigged 1/32 scaulpin jigs without indicators. I boated 30 fish with this method today. Besides what fun is bobber fishing anyway? The only reason we did it the first day was we had 3 people in my boat and didn't want a trip to Skaggs. The other boat fished bigger jigs bouncing off the bottom and the 1/8 green and black boated the biggest fish but I couldn't hardly keep them off my smaller green/ginger jig. What a day today was. I will try to post pics if they are emailed to me.