Lures? Greer to Whitten Updated with report

[mmirg]

Hey guys we are floating Greer to Whitten tomorrow.  I've never floated the eleven point or fished for trout anywhere but Taneycomo.  Although I do alot of float fishing for smallmouth.  I'm looking for suggestions on what lures we should be throwing for trout.  It's going to be me and the kids in kayaks. Any help would be appreciated. 

Thanks

Thanks for the replies.

Report: My 5 sons and I camped last night at Greer Crossing. My boys range in age from 22 to 12 years old.  Just being with all my boys made it a pretty awesome trip for me, and we caught fish to boot!  The camp grounds at Greer Crossing are primitive, well maintained, and secluded.  We met the campground host Steve on Friday night and had a nice chat with him, he's a real nice, helpful fella. Brian at Eleven Point canoe rental shuttled our vehicles for us.

After breaking camp and getting everyone rigged up we hit the water at Greer Crossing around 8:30.  We started throwing jigs, rooster tails, small rebels, and small crank baits that dive to about 6' like a small Flickr shad or a bomber A4.  We quickly learned that the rebels in blue/silver and the crank baits in black/silver and baby bass were catching the fish.  Between the trees on the bank and the trees in the water my supply of those baits is now depleted. 

 The trout were holding in the same places that you'd find smallmouth on a river, in the deeper pools at the ends of a riffle, around current breaks and in and amongst bluff edges with current and chunk rock.  We were all catching fish, and  it was a hoot!  

The majority of the fish were caught in the blue ribbon water from Greer to Turners Mill.  It took us about 3 hours to fish that stretch of water.  If I were to do a short one day float again I'd focus on that stretch alone, fish it hard and take out at Turners Mill. 

Once you pass Turners your allowed to use soft plastics so we broke out the Ned rigs since I've been catching alot of river smallies on them.  We used 1/8 and 1/16 oz round unpainted jig heads with a wire weed guard on them, the 1/16 oz  were preffered since it allowed for less hang ups. The color didn't seem to matter much as long as it had some green pumpkin or white to it.  All the fish that we caught from Greer to Whitten came on the Ned or the rebel including a 16" rainbow.  That section of the river looks alot like the James river that we are used to fishing except the water is colder and your catching trout instead of smallmouth. 

It rained heavily on us for about the last hour of the float and we took out at Whitten at about 5:00.  

The final tally was 54 fish, the largest 2 were 16" rainbows caught by two of my sons.  We caught 2 smallmouth,  2 Goggle eye, 1 sucker, 1 chain pickerel, and 1 sculpin with the rest being rainbows and browns. 

It was a really nice trip with the boys, laughing, fishing and enjoying each other.  Worth the 2.5 hour drive from Ozark.  I'm already looking forward to doing it again.

 

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Spin or fly?

[mmirg]

Sorry.  Spin 

[DainW]

1/6 oz little cleos. Gold and red or silver and red. 

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Marabou jigs

[Ham]

1/8 oz Zig Jigs in the Holy Trinity. Brown/orange, Triple Olive, and Olive/Ginger