Tournament Past Weekend

[Smithvillesteve]

A bunch of married guys with cabin fever had a trout tournament over this past weekend down at Tanneycomo. 2 buddies of mine and I went down wed afternoon and fished through the weekend. Wed afternoon was beautiful. Last day of that warm weather. No running water and fishing was slow. A few fish on a jig with a strike indicator. Fished thursday and again no running water. We boated about 40 trout mostly on jigs with strike indicators again. Woke up friday and they were running water. We boated only about 25 trout. I caught quite a few on a spoon. Saturday early they were running water, but not much. We boated 65 trout. Mostly on trout magnets. Buddy of mine had a nice 16.5 brown trout and i caught 2 nice 15 inch rainbows. Most of the guys, 30 total, claimed the fishing was quite slow over the weekend tournament. However, it took 2 rainbows over 4 pounds to finish in the money. Somebody on this forum posted that trout are in the pre spawn phase right now down there. And the fishing is slow during this time. I am not the trout man. Anybody on here give me some info on that it would be appreciated.

[Phil Lilley]

Rainbows are in "spawning mode" most of the winter and spring here because of how they are raised. They color up and some go through the motions but I wouldn't say catching is slower because of it. If that were the case, catching would be slow half of the year!!