Father's Day Fishing Report

[Clay Goforth]

I haven't seen many posts lately in this forum, so I thought I would post a fishing report from the trip yesterday.

For Father's Day, I took my dad over to the river to chase after some trout. We put in at the Forrest L Wood Access in the Catch and Release area at the dam. Bull Shoals was generating 2 units of water. The trout fishing was on fire. We fished in the C&R area for a while before deciding to float down river and fish some water that we haven't touched in a while. We floated through State Park and fished our way down to Gastons. It happened to be about 12:30 so we pulled up to the dock and went in for Gaston's Sunday Brunch. We got back on the water, motored back up to the dam, fished for maybe another 30 - 45 minutes and decided that it was too hot and we were both pretty beat so we loaded up and headed home about 2:30.

We boated 104 fish in the 5 hours on the water, the biggest was a 20" brown my dad caught. We also landed a couple of 19" rainbows and a slew of 15-17" fish in throughout the pretty constant catching. We solely fished PJ's jigs. My dad started out with a brown and orange with an orange head and did very well but by 9:30 the sun was high and the bite had changed to all black, 3/32oz on 3lb test line.

I will be back over this coming weekend with a group of guys and will post another report after that trip. I expect that, if they will continue to run between 2 and 5 units, this coming weekend could produce a true trophy size fish. All of the fish we caught yesterday were healthy, fat, football shaped fish. They seem to be loving this generation.

[Terrierman]

Good job Clay.

[Johnsfolly]

Great Trip. Can't wait to hear about the next one. good luck.