Way Upper End 08/31

[kjackson]

Started the day late--7:30--but it was so foggy on the river that I wouldn't run on plane, anyway.  Marked a lot of bait/fish just outside of the Holiday Island marina and trolled my way up the bank when I could see it. Caught one small white bass and worked up to Butler Creek where I caught a smallish LM on a jerk bait. Couldn't buy a strike on a topwater of any kind, but then I didn't work too hard.

Headed up to the 62 bridge to see if I could find walleyes, but there were too many trout around.  Total: caught two trout in the fog zone and lost one nice one. Hooked a keeper largemouth in a row of stumps on a Spoonbill Rogue; everything else hit a suspending Bomber 14A.   Water temp at the bridge was 51, and at the marina end it was 81. Pulled the plug at 1:30...

[rps]

pretty fish

[5bites]

Very cool. I badly want to go up that far. 

[kjackson]

Interestingly, that trout was a cutthroat-rainbow hybrid or a pure cutt.  The slashes don't show on this image, but that is a first for me.

Also saw this yesterday.  Too much speed? Beer?    It does show the force of the current when the river is running.

[Sore Thumbs]

Someone is probably looking for that boat. Ha

[Champ188]

Someone is probably looking for that boat. Ha

Not to mention the 10 grams of meth they lost when it overturned.

[Bill Babler]

Nice photo's.  I would bet ya that is a straight rainbow.  You will see slashes of orange and sometimes red is the creases and jaw line of quite a few bows.  There is no or very little natural recruitment in the White River below Beaver Dam to think that is a crossbred.  The chances would be extremely limited, to durn near impossible.  Arkansas does not stock a hybred or cross between a rainbow and a cutthroat.

I have seen 10's of thousands of bows with the natural orange or red jaw slash, from Alaska to Arkansas.

Makes ya think though.

[kjackson]

I won't disagree, Bill. I was thinking I'd read somewhere that cutt-bows were planted in Arkansas and Missouri.  

I was surprised to see the gill slashes as I categorized the fish as a rainbow when I netted it. Having said that, I grew up in cutthroat land, and these slashes were pretty definite. It's most likely a case of interbreeding somewhere up the line with recessive genes passed down until they pop up like this.   Cutthroat and rainbows are pretty much like teenagers...recent studies in Washington state have shown that searun cutts cross with steelhead and vice versa, which is a lot weirder than stream-run rainbows and cutthroats.