7/24 Report

[Cameron Gillespie]

Fished up near the dam in the AM, pulled out when water started rising about noon and went to Rim. Bite was pretty good at the dam, caught a mixed bag of some very nice rainbows,a nice brown, a tiger trout, and a bunch of stocker brookies. Had a nice smallmouth as a bonus. That fish was long and skinny. I kinda wish I had put it in the live well and transferred him to the lake. Rim didn’t fish nearly as good as the Dam. Went up Crooked Creek to try for smallmouth, but water has dropped and was pretty nasty and stagnant.

[FishnDave]

Good looking fish!  Sounds like you had a great day with a variety of fish!

[Johnsfolly]

1 hour ago, Cameron Gillespie said:

Fished up near the dam in the AM, pulled out when water started rising about noon and went to Rim. Bite was pretty good at the dam, caught a mixed bag of some very nice rainbows,a nice brown, a tiger trout, and a bunch of stocker brookies.

Nice Brook trout. That tiger trout is awesome! Congrats on a great multispecies trip!

[netboy]

Sounds like a good day.

I fished around Stetson's this morning and also caught a small Tiger trout. I understand they are triploids so they should grow pretty fast.

 

[Quillback]

That's pretty neat, it will be interesting to see how the tiger trout thing works out.  Seems that I heard that they are aggressive eaters which could lead to fast growth, but have the downside of getting caught frequently and ending up in a frying pan.

[Ham]

Is this Tiger Trout a one time deal ? I’m hoping they stock every year for a while.

[netboy]

37 minutes ago, Quillback said:

That's pretty neat, it will be interesting to see how the tiger trout thing works out.  Seems that I heard that they are aggressive eaters which could lead to fast growth, but have the downside of getting caught frequently and ending up in a frying pan.

They only stocked them in the C&R area below the dam with the thought that many of them would stay up there and be protected. But apparently some of them are moving downstream as the one I caught was just upstream of Stetson's.  

Here's some more info...

https://www.agfc.com/en/news/2020/05/27/agfc-to-try-tiger-trout-hybrid-in-bull-shoals-tailwater/

[Cameron Gillespie]

They must have stocked a ton of brookies lately, caught a lot of them. I’m pretty sure most of them end up as lunch for big browns.  If we can keep the tiger trout from being kept, I think they will do well.

[netboy]

4 minutes ago, Cameron Gillespie said:

They must have stocked a ton of brookies lately, caught a lot of them. I’m pretty sure most of them end up as lunch for big browns.  If we can keep the tiger trout from being kept, I think they will do well.

They stocked 5,800 brook trout between the dam and Gaston's earlier this month and another 2,700 at Norfork...

 https://ozarkflyfisherjournal.wordpress.com/2020/07/14/brookies-stocked/

[netboy]

It is really going to be difficult to get a true White River "Slam" in one day's fishing. 🙂 

You would need...

Rainbow

Golden rainbow

Brown 

Snake river (fine spot) cutthroat

Bonneville (big spot) cutthroat

Brook 

Tiger