O A F Winter White River Trip 2013

[Terrierman]

I fry in peanut oil too. It's the best. How about if I make a nice apple crisp to top it off with? And some good coffee.

[LittleRedFisherman]

I fry in peanut oil too. It's the best. How about if I make a nice apple crisp to top it off with? And some good coffee.

yes sir, that sounds like a plan to me!!

[hoglaw]

I haven't been watching flows. Demand hasn't been high yet. I floated the little red yesterday and it was as low as I've ever seen it. The white was a consistent one unit for a while with demand spikes. Normally more moderate on the weekends. That's not a recipe for an epic jerk bait trip. Jerk baits fish ok in low water, but we will need some serious bad weather to get the 4+ unit generation we really need for big fish on jerk baits. I'm predicting a jig trip.

We caught a bunch of good fish floating the norfork a few weeks ago. But it's basically paddle hard for a mile and a half, fish hard for the next mile, then paddle out. The good water is in the middle and everything else is elbow to elbow right now. It lends itself to a good half day trip taking out at Ackerman.

[gotmuddy]

hoglaw, how much water does the norfork have with no units running? could I push my boat down the shoals?

[Ham]

I fished the lower river at what is the new minimum ~ around 200 CFS from all sources out flowing from Norfork + 500 or so fron the White + whatever is coming down the Buffalo & Crroked Creek. I can run my jet and it's a turkey shoot. A south wind hinder me somewhat, but I caught 60 trout in 3 hours of fishing. I hooked another couple dozen and missed a bunch of bites. Size was NOt great though. This would have been excellent water taxi to wade fly fish water too.

I didn't have a full day, but I would have loved to yak fish yesterday.

[LittleRedFisherman]

Ham, that sounds like a lot of action 60 fish in that time, was that on the zig jig? I think you and Hoglaw have covered this before on another post, but I've only got a couple spinning rods these days, ill be using them for the jigging, I think i have some low vis green 6 and 8 pound respectively on them (Triline). What would you guys recommend, this line need to be replaced anyways on these reels, been about a year probably. I've went to flouro on a couple of my casting rods for smallies, LOVE that for my tube and senko rigs. What about the zigs? Think I've heard you guys talk about the NanoFil being good for spinning reels and sensitivity? Cody is using braid i think, haven't bass fished with braid since spiderwire came out in the early 90's, went back to mono after awile and never went back. Just been using it for Catfish.

I've got a light action 6.5 foot and a med/light 7foot TFO spinning that i'll be bringing..

[hoglaw]

I really like the 4lb cx premium for jig line. I've also used that floroclear I think it's called. It's a coated line. I'm not sure how I feel about the braid yet.

[gotmuddy]

I only use braid in saltwater, even then its only 18lb.

[Greasy B]

Little Red makes 8 I think. Riley's Station is right where the Buffalo comes in, right? If so, there's some great wading/fly water right around there, and upstream from the Buffalo City access where I destroyed the intake on my jet one time. I don't mind ferrying folks either, so anyone who just wants to wade and fish should be in pretty good shape and have quite a bit of river to yourself.

My buddies and I fished minimum flow out of Buffalo City yesterday. Was great for wading and not all bad for boating. Getting up buffalo shoal wasn't too bad but as usual the mile or two of ledge rock above are a bear. If you don't mind picking your way through the boulders slow enough that you'll slide over without too much damage you will have some darn fine wading water and the scenery is second to none. You might even find some fish that have fins and color. Good luck.

[Terrierman]

Ham, that sounds like a lot of action 60 fish in that time, was that on the zig jig? I think you and Hoglaw have covered this before on another post, but I've only got a couple spinning rods these days, ill be using them for the jigging, I think i have some low vis green 6 and 8 pound respectively on them (Triline). What would you guys recommend, this line need to be replaced anyways on these reels, been about a year probably. I've went to flouro on a couple of my casting rods for smallies, LOVE that for my tube and senko rigs. What about the zigs? Think I've heard you guys talk about the NanoFil being good for spinning reels and sensitivity? Cody is using braid i think, haven't bass fished with braid since spiderwire came out in the early 90's, went back to mono after awile and never went back. Just been using it for Catfish.

I've got a light action 6.5 foot and a med/light 7foot TFO spinning that i'll be bringing..

I fished Taneycomo today. Tried 2 lb P line flouroclear. That stuff is teeny tiny. Got bit just fine on everything I tried, jig under a float about 8ft deep, baby rainbow countdown rapala, gulp eggs. It looked like most everybody was catching. Guys in one boat that drifted by close were all using weighted san juan worms, they were fishing deeper than me, they said 12 to 14 foot leader. That's real hard to do with spinning gear though and I didn't have a fly rod with me.