A couple fly fishing reports

[BilletHead]

First trip was to Indian territory Thursday in Oklahoma. I mean this in the most sincere way. I have some of that blood running in my veins and we caught fish in native territory. Drove right by a casino to get there.  Forum member Curticse made the trip with me. It was kind of like Custer's last stand. We had a mini white bass massacre. We fished a channel below a gravel shoal. Dry gravel bar on one side, mud cut bank on opposite side. Pretty much anchored in the middle of the channel throwing small clousers towards the gravel bar and then to the eddies that were formed behind downed trees along the cut bank. We conservatively caught 75 or more. Kept 26 between us. We weighed one and it was 2.5lbs. There was more than one that size in the take. The males were milting on us and the boat as we unhooked and released them. Some of the females you could poke their sides and the eggs were just running out. When we cleaned them they had eggs in every stage so this should go on for awhile. Water temp was 60.7 when we started. Quit about one. Took a photo of ten with the other sixteen in the live well ready to be invited to dinner. 

     Second trip was to an upper flow into Stockton lake. Took my uncle for a jet boat ride upriver. I again was throwing clousers on the long rod and he was spin fishing. We ran to the first shoal. Caught some whites of assorted sizes. Above us the river made a small narrow  s-type curve. Decided to try it . We did the ride up to the next shoal great only having to duck branches once along the way. Not much room between the shoals and as we caught a couple we could see the river dropping.Witnessed whites splashing and running through the riffles.   Not enough room to regain plane going back down it was raise the motor and carom off wood and gravel back down to deeper water (note to self don't do that again in this flow) Dropped trolling motor and caught a few more drifting back down river. Seen more fish caught from shore fishermen. Witnessed three different guys throwing a-rigs. Looked pretty tiresome to me. Flying through the air they looked like little Christmas trees in flight and sounded like fighter jets. I would of just as soon stayed up high in the river chasing whites but Uncle John could only imagine bass along the rock bluffs and banks closer to the lake. I caught the only bass and one rather nice drum if you can call them nice?. More whites and bluegill too. As we neared the lake the wind was getting intense. Gave it up. Water temp 57 degrees. Had fun with my 70+year old Uncle as he did with me. Forgot to throw camera in boat so no pictures from yesterday,

BilletHead

[Johnsfolly]

BH - I missed this post earlier. Great stringer of white bass! I haven't fished a place that I could fly fish for whites. Sound like fun under the right river conditions.