Clay Goforth Posted February 8, 2015 Posted February 8, 2015 Jig fishing and fly fishing, myself and two other gents just killed it today on the white between buffalo shoals and Riley's. I had 53 when we stopped for lunch. We fished on through the afternoon and the highlight of the day was this 27" rainbow on 2lb test on a marabou jig. Trout Bum93, Terrierman, Ham and 1 other 4 Clay Goforth=4px> Trophy Anglers Guild www.TrophyAnglersGuild.com "Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul." - Democritus
BFTMASTER Posted February 8, 2015 Posted February 8, 2015 nice, looks like the water was low. Did that affect you tactics?
rps Posted February 8, 2015 Posted February 8, 2015 A 27 inch fish is always awesome. Unfortunately, the picture did not show up for me.
Clay Goforth Posted February 8, 2015 Author Posted February 8, 2015 Yeah I'm having trouble getting the pic to attach from my phone. It may be tomorrow before I can get it up here. BFT, I am pretty used to fishing low water over here so we just found deep holes and hit those, which is the reason we ran down to Riley's. Clay Goforth=4px> Trophy Anglers Guild www.TrophyAnglersGuild.com "Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul." - Democritus
BFTMASTER Posted February 8, 2015 Posted February 8, 2015 Did they seem to prefer a certain color jig and technique?
Clay Goforth Posted February 9, 2015 Author Posted February 9, 2015 BFT, I fished a sculpin pattern jig that I tied almost all day and it was definitely the hot color. I mix two different sculpin colors, one is a lighter green and the other is the dark traditional green. This one jig also happened to have an extra feather in it that was a dark green/light green zebra pattern in it. I don't think that had any bearing on the fish though. As for the technique, in the deep holes I used a 1/16oz and let it fall for what felt like way too long each time. In the ripples and the shoals, I fished a 1/32oz and just fished the drift, letting it swing all the way down straight below me and picking up fish at all points in the drift. I finally got the picture to upload, I think. The picture doesn't do it justice necessarily. Keep in mind that I am a pretty big guy at 6'3" and 270lbs. And I'm not doing the ol' picture cheat of holding the fish way out toward the camera, either. laker67, Phil Lilley and rps 3 Clay Goforth=4px> Trophy Anglers Guild www.TrophyAnglersGuild.com "Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul." - Democritus
Greasy B Posted February 9, 2015 Posted February 9, 2015 Excellent fish, I can't imagine the odds that fish overcame to grow so large in the lower river. Great catch. Clay Goforth 1 His father touches the Claw in spite of Kevin's warnings and breaks two legs just as a thunderstorm tears the house apart. Kevin runs away with the Claw. He becomes captain of the Greasy Bastard, a small ship carrying rubber goods between England and Burma. Michael Palin, Terry Jones, 1974
Members alldone88 Posted February 9, 2015 Members Posted February 9, 2015 Nice report and great fish. Thanks for posting.
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