Big jerkbait tackle

[Seth]

We are heading down to stay at Lazy Valley Resort next Thursday and do some trout fishing on Taneycomo....woohoo!!!.

Anyhow, I have a couple big rogues and rapalas ( like 6 or 7" long) that I used for bass quite a bit and I was thinking about trying them out on the banks across from Lilleys and see if anything big would come out and take a peek.

What kind of tackle would you recommend using for these kind of baits? I was thinking about just using my regular bass rod with 14 lbs stren. I figured that if a big trout wanted to eat it bad enough then the line wouldn't make that much difference.

Let me know your opinions.

[motroutbum]

if you were gonna throw that stuff, i would just throw a regualr 6 ft spinning rod with 8-10 lb maxima

[sms_alum]

I used to throw rogues at night with some success, but mostly fly fish now. You'll be suprised how small of a rainbow will hit a rogue. Would you be boat fishing or wading?

[Phil Lilley]

In the evening when the water is running. See those creek chubs on the troutcam- you need to throw something that looks like them. There's tons in the lake and I'm sure the browns are keying on them.

Rig- whatever does the best job for what you're throwing. Don't pay attention to line size- it doesn't matter (as far as being too large).

[Seth]

Thanks alot guys.

I will mostly be fly fishing up at the dam, but later in the evening or really early in the morning if I am at the resort then I thought about motoring across the lake and throwing something like that around those big logs.

I also thought about gettings ome chicken livers and throwing out around there too since I have seen and heard of quite a few big browns being caught on chicken livers before too.

I guess anything thats meaty and an easy meal would attract the pig browns.