12/18 Report And Video Trout, Smallies And More

[LittleRedFisherman]

Hit the river yesterday in the Supreme with my buddy Chad, as Cabin fever was setting in, as I had been home with my sick little boy for the last few days. We decided to head to the point where 3 weeks ago we had a really good time catching some trout, plus we could target some smallies as well. The water is as low as ever, and if it's possible, even clearer than it was 3 weeks ago. When the water is slick it's impossible to hide you self, this really makes it difficult to catch any smallmouth.

We started off using flyrods and decided to find current as it can help give us cover in the gin clear water. We started off getting some bites early on, my buddy just fishing a jig on his, and I had a san jaun, with a zebra midge dropper. We did this for about an hour with some success, I hooked a couple good ones that got off before they got to the boat.

After that my buddy found his spinning rod, as did I, and we tryed zig jigs for awhile, they two produced some trout, although not near as fast of action as they did a few weeks ago. Then brown and orange was the color it seemed, this day is was white they seemed to like. In the process of catching a few trout, we targeted some smallies as well, so was hoping the jigs might catch a smallie as well. They where were very spooky and very hard to catch.

After a while I also had a rod rigged up with a RC STX jerkbait, and I started throwing it around cover and around some dark water near the banks. I was trying to trigger the smallmouth into a reaction bite. On about my 5th cast or so, this behemouth of Pickeral darted out and started staring my jerkbait down, id give the twitch, and it would get close enough to smell it but didn't take it. Finally I gave it lighter twitch, and bam, the fight was on. Unfortunately it spit the hooks out at the boat, and I forgot to have my gopro turned on to catch the excitment, but it might of very well been a 24 incher, by far the biggest one I would of caught.

As for smallies, they were pretty elusive, but did manage to catch a few, only one of any size and it was only about 15 inches. I caught the biggest one from under a fallen tree, where I actually made a sidearm cast to get under some limbs. All in all, a pretty good day on the river, had to work for the fish, but it was well worth it!!

Here's a video link I threw together

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"Cotton Picking Trout...." Got to love that. Thanks for the video. When can I come down for a ride?

[LittleRedFisherman]

Yeah, I notice when listening to myself my southern accent tends to come out strong...lol. I wasn't expecting to catch those smaller rainbows on a jerkbait like that, but turned out to be the hot bait of the day.

Sounds like a plan, love to meet you there sometime, looks like you'd have a pretty good drive. Plan on going next week possibly, but we may hit the arkansas side of the Eleven point, the water will be "greener" and alot more wood cover, for the smallmouth.