Missouri's next record brown trout

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I spent 9 days in August this year and only threw jerks from the cable to the Landing.  I caught some nice trout but a couple days I never saw a fish.  I've had days where the big ones would follow up to the boat and circle it but never bite it.  I've also had days where I caught multiple 20 inch plus fish on San Juan worms and eggs too.

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40 minutes ago, Devan S. said:

Maybe the way to a real monster is drifting a sculpin or shad under a jug. I can just see it now waves of jugs like on grand floating down taney. 

An old lady fishing at the confluence of the White and Norfork about 40 years ago told me.  You gotta use dead sculpins because a live one will crawl under the rocks and the fish don't detect it.  She said it's just like cat fishing with bait only easier. 

[MoCarp]

Chumming up a spot with chopped shad for a couple of weeks, then drift a dead bait rigged on a quick strike rig, Years ago in fisherman did an artical on huge browns from marginal water typically too warm

 yet these areas in tiny streams produced double digit fish on stickbaits and big inline spinners

huge fish are hogs and eat eat and eat, dead and dieing trout are easy food sources yet using trout or parts as bait isn’t legal, so perhaps a shad dyed and scented to look like a stocker trout?

the dyes are available, as far as smelling like a trout...I used to extract  trout oil from trout scraps from cleanupsfor trapping purposes...scraps placed in an old ice chest (the kind with a spout) and a sheet of plywood cut to fit the inside of a chest...once I had saved enough scraps the fill the ice chest 1/3 full, I used a large box of kosher salt sprinkled over the scraps and placed the board over the mix, and place 4 bricks on the board 

tilled the chest by tipping it on the edge of picnic table so the drainage would drip into a large glass jar (1gal widemouth pickle jar) that was covered with fine window screen to keep out flies 

as the scraps got squished I would add bricks, best keep far from noses you don’t want to offend!

this takes time, keep it out of the rain, once the process runs its course ( at least a week) place the jar as is in a dry place to age

said oil injected in painted baits as well as scenting up with a squirt in a ziplock bag 

lots of info on oil infused dead baits used in the UK for giant pike

 

[MoCarp]

Here is another method, just don’t be surprise if the wife moves out!

 

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No thanks.

[Flysmallie]

Just now, snagged in outlet 3 said:

No thanks.

The most unethical way from the most unethical person. 

[MoCarp]

Fish caught on quick strike rigs (which are micro barn or barbless) are less damaged than on a plug

but how would you know? You never read anything, and you jump to assumptions, kinda like many journalists these days

where these methods started...fish are all released, one reason that they have such massive records 

do your homework 1st 

puts tampon back in both yalls mouth😎

 

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5 minutes ago, MoCarp said:

puts tampon back in both yalls mouth😎

You talkin to me Willis???

[Deadstream]

You have some class Mo.

[liphunter]

I hear you Mo. That's the same way I make squirrel oil. Only, I don't have a brick. I just give the neighbor kid a quarter to stand in the cooler, on the plywood. He usually gets it all out before he passes out. Loves me some squirrel oil!!!