Masters Trout Tournament 2018

[Phil Lilley]

Here's the report:

MDC stocked on Friday afternoon.  They dumped in a bunch of nice fish down at the boat ramp where they keep their stocking boat.  It's by the Branson treatment plant.  Some of the guys saw them stock... word got around.

There was a crowd Saturday morning.

Most of the anglers said they caught a lot of fish Saturday.  Jigs, jerk baits, spoons.  

At weigh in, I saw a lot of bigger stockers.  The team who won had a keeper brown that weighed 5.8 pounds but they also had some decent rainbows to go with them.  He caught the brown on a stick bait early in the morning.  He caught it below the resort.... somewhere.

The other 3 winning teams all had above average stockers mainly.  Rainbows being stocked right now are in spawning mode and the males are heavy.  

Babler had a trip.  They went up in Roark Creek to the ice and he said his 2 clients caught 90 trout on the pink Berkley's worm.  The trout he cleaned averaged about 11.5 inches - nothing special.

[Phil Lilley]