Spin Fishing Report - 3/13/2011

[mwfischer]

Our group made our annual trip to Taney this Friday thru Sunday. We usually spin fish with spoons and small cast/retrieve baits but this year I wanted to try to commit to jig fishing. Surprisingly even with Tablerock being low it seemed that water was moving most of the day Friday - Sunday so we threw 1/8 oz jigs in the trophy area.

Of course my office couldn't do without me on Friday so I spent far too much time on the phone during our first drift, but I was able to catch this rainbow, definitely the best of my life, on a 1/8 oz Sculpin/tan jig just up from Fall Creek. We regularly caught fish on most drifts on Gold/Red spoons and the sculpin/tan as well as pink and white jigs. Others in the group fished down from the creek and also did well on the spoons and jigs.

Our group really had a great time again and as always, just when I get back to St. Louis, I can't wait to get back down there.

On a side note, what is the standard rig for a jig/float up in the trophy area? I never seem to get it right and I know this is a very reliable way of catching fish in the area.

[Phil Lilley]

Bill said his trip on Saturday was pretty good. A full micro pink with chrome head under a float 5-6 feet deep (he might elaborate) and drifting down the middle of the lake. He told me he had something else tired on as a tandem fly and his client caught 2 at a time. I don't think I've ever caught 2 trout on one line before so it must have been good fishing and a good fly.

Bill should chime in.

[duckydoty]

That is one pretty Rainbow. Just think, Friday, I drove up to the St. Louis area to spend the weekend. I could not wait to get back home?????

[mwfischer]

One of the guys in our group talked briefly to someone at the Cooper Creek launch w/ a White River Outfitters logo on his truck, he mentioned doing very well today with pink jigs under a float. I wonder if that was him.

[Phil Lilley]

Yep- that was Bill Babler.