Back From Taney

[Seth]

This was the first real fishing trip in my new boat so I never made it up to the outlet to wade fish. My dad and uncle drifted crawlers up above shortcreek and caught a lot of nice rainbows. Also seen a lot of fish caught off the dock at Lazy Valley by other people fishing power bait. They also caught a couple of big white suckers.

The girlfriend and I focused on the trophy area from just below Lookout on down to Flat Creek. The best area was just upriver from where it get's really shallow in front of the big fancy houses. The fish were stacked in there as well as other boats. A white 1/8oz jig that I got from Phil's was our best bait. A #16 grey scud on the fly rod was also hot. We picked a few up drifting a pink micro jig and throwing a small rainbow rapala. The biggest fish was a 19" rainbow that was probably pushing 3.5-4lbs. It was a chunk and fought like a demon before I finally got him in. He took the white jig hopped along the bottom. I've got a picture on the girlfriends camera that I will upload as soon as I get it uploaded of the chip.

Our total fish caught was probably around 30 in the trophy area, but we probably hooked and lost just as many if not more due to poor hook sets. I'm hoping to come back down in August during the car show and do some more trout fishing this summer. We had an absolute blast!

[Seth]

She just uploaded the pics to Facebook so here you go. The first is me fighting the 19" rainbow, the other is me holding it before release and the last is of one my girlfriend caught on a white jig.