Fishing Report

[kelly]

What a day on the water. My friend Sam and I hit Lilleys Landing around 8AM Friday from Parsons. Went right to it at Short Creek but didn't like the color of the water so we went on up to Fall Creek. Fall creek was still running muddy water into Lake T at a pretty good rate so we went on up to the first flats above there and started throwing olive and olive orange jigs in 3/32 oz. The water was much better there as it was just cloudy. The first two fish came fast then we both scored on super fat Rainbows 18 and 19 inches and three pounds or so each.

The rest of the day went much the same with about fifty fish boated and four in the three pound range just short of 20 inches and most of them in the 15 to 17 inch range. We remarked to each other quite a bit about how big the fish were. I even bragged about how hard the eight incher(s) fought.

We worked the jigs off the bottom with a quick jerk until that stopped producing. We then went SLOOOWWW off the bottom, which worked very well too. I tied on a 32nd ounce brown jig and drifted it with the wind straight down stream. They loved that too but mainly two feet deep and on the drop.

I don't know why, but I lost several fish on that small jig. The fish hit the larger jigs pretty soft but they slammed the small one, probably because they had to swim up to it but, I think they were just faster than me.

The wind blew hard, all day out of the South so we mainly fished where we could drift with it for a long stretch. The cold was managable until the clouds thickend and hid all the sunshine and when it started to rain, about 3PM we decided we were too far away from Lilleys to fight it all the way back.

Thanks to Phil, Marsha and Meagan for always taking care of us and going out of their way to make a good trip a great one. And Curtis...You da Man.

[kelly]

Oops, I forgot to say I left my camera at home so, sorry no pics.

[Gatorjet]

Good fishing. I was there from Wednesday afternoon until today. I didn't fish Friday, promised the wife some Silver Dollar City time. I didn't catch the numbers you guys did, but almost everything was decent sized. The best was a 20 1/2 inch Bow just below the tennis courts. that is where I caught most of my fish. Mostly 16-17 with one just a tad under 18. Same technique, but I was using sculpin/ginger.

Great fun on 2# line!!!