Saturday Morning 6/19

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Fished early. Not great but I did manage 8 on a splashing walker. Two keepers, with one worth a picture.

When I pinched her tail she went over 20 inches and the Cabelas spring scale said 5 pounds. Notice her tail has not grown fully back yet. She came off a steep bank near the mouth of Rock Creek just before the lightning ran me back towards Holiday Island.

After the topwater bite quit, I fished a jig for an hour. Only shorts. I then went way up river to hunt walleye but found only trout.

[Quillback]

Nice fish! I may have to haul the boat to Houseman this week and run downriver. Where did you pick up the trout at? Did you find them upriver past Houseman or are they lower down?

[Stump bumper]

Quillback;

I put in a houseman's last week and started fishing at blue springs and caught a nice 16in rainbow on a 4in worm. Then got 3 spots on the same bend. Ran to Holiday Island and back fishing bends and had a great time,I was really surprised how far down I saw trout feeding on top when the mayflies started hatching at sundown. That is a hard boat launch if you are by yourself, glad my wife was with me since there is nowhere to beach.

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I was hunting walleyes so I was fishing a slow death worm rig.

http://www.outdoorlife.com/articles/fishing/2007/09/slow-death

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In the hole between the 62 bridge and where it bends toward Houseman, I could not keep the trout off. Down nearer Blue Springs, they were not as thick. On the shoal near Cow Patty Flats (island, then bend, then a big cut on the left as you head down) I found trout and small brown bass. No walleye, though.

[Quillback]

Thanks guys for the info, where is Blue Springs, downstream or upstream from Houseman?

[Stump bumper]

Thanks guys for the info, where is Blue Springs, downstream or upstream from Houseman?

About 100 yards downstream, the part you don't need a trout stamp unless you want to keep them. Guess I should get one of those but I am not that into trout fishing.