Drift Fishing

[fulldraw]

Hey Guys,

I am looking forward to coming down this Friday through Sunday to try my luck. I have never tried my hand at this body of water, I normally fish Montauk and Meramec Springs. It seems like most of you guys on here are experienced with the fly, but since I will be having my dad and brother along, we will primarily be doing live bait drifting from a boat, starting around Cooper's. I was wondering if i could get a few helpful tips. I bought a nightcrawler inflater, has this presentation drifting on the bottom been producing lately, also do the Gulp worms (I have a few different colors) have a similiar effect on the fish? We will also try our hand with some powerbait, spinners, and I have made sure to stock up on plenty of the trout magnets! Also, just wondering about techniques to use once the sun goes down for that nighttime bite...?

Thanks for any help guys, I understand most of you are fly fishermen so I hope i havent bothered ya too much! Take care and hope you lines stay tight

Dave

[Fly Fishing Fantasma]

inflated night crawlers have been working. My family and I fished this body of water for the first time this last weekend and had luck with that technique. I also had some luck with powerbait eggs at night time. Good luck!

[Phil Lilley]

http://www.lilleyslanding.com/videos

There's several videos here on our site that may be helpful.

[Mr. Ed]

You guys will do fine with worms and power bait on a drift rig. Hot drift bait for us last time I was there were the little Power Bait minnows... black and white and maybe 2" long. My buddy had a pack of them and was out fishing me 2 to 1 with them. If you have fly gear bring it. If water is running slow fly fishing on the drift is a blast and REALLY easy... it'd borderline not fly fishing. 100oz jig (or this Trout Magnet we have been reading about here) 5' under a little float. Flip the rig out there and let it drift along with you and wait for float to go down. If the conditions are right you'll catch a LOT of trout with that rig. Have fun!

[fulldraw]

Well, had a great weekend at Lake Taney. We caught fish after fish, the majority of our fish from Coopers Creek all the way down to Branson Landing. We cleaned a few Bows to take home, can anyone tell me why some of the trout have pink colored meat while others have a white flesh. I fish mainly Meramec Springs and Montauk and they are usually always a white flesh. I just figured that this pink color was due to the trout's diet in this body of water...?

[Phil Lilley]

Pink flesh means they've been in the lake long enough to turn a natural color- yes it's what they eat. White - they haven't been in the lake very long.