Turn and Burn tonight TR

[MNtransplant]

8 hours ago, JestersHK said:

Pretty decent night tonight throwing jerk baits. 

Started up by dam and worked our way down to the drop off past rebar.

My buddy Rob finally got to fish at night with zero flow and he was putting the hurt to them.  

I started with a 762 sculpin signature series and Rob was throwing a green weenie 606. He got hung up and broke off so switched to French pearl and it was game on. 

Down at the drop off we just hammered them. As soon as it was hitting the water we were getting blow ups. We doubled up a few times.  Mostly just average stockers, but they were hitting hard. 

Rob got a rod jerker hit finally and sadly it broke off 10lb braid on his hook set...  Not sure what it was but he said that's the hardest he'd been hit down here.

We just had 4th meal and are going to wander down past the boat ramp and see what's up. 

There are sculpin everywhere in the water too, just crazy the amount of them we're seeing. Bats are out in full force too and man they're bumping lines left and right...

Beautiful night on the lake though. Maybe someone will catch whatever broke him off as it should have a shiny 762 French pearl stuck in its face.

 

Great job DJ, on the fishing and the artwork...i think I need something like that for my office someday. Wish I could've joined you and Rob but I will be headed down on Saturday Lord willing and I might try the pre dawn bit you mentioned. Little one is feeling better and is thru his crud.

[JestersHK]

Glad your little ones feeling better Tyler. Oh and my wife scored us a place to stay Wednesday through Saturday so I'll be heading back down tomorrow for more antics to keep this thread going.  @Seth you're finally gonna get to hunt with me at night hopefully.   Bring @Ryan Miloshewski too and anyone else that wants to come over to the dark side lol

[JestersHK]

Just made it back down... a little birdy whispered French Pearl to me, so I'm gearing up and likely hitting my usual spots this evening. 

I'll try to keep this post going till Saturday with some pics.

Edit: Not a bad start and got my brownie out of the way. 

[Johnsfolly]

5 hours ago, JestersHK said:

 

Edit: Not a bad start and got my brownie out of the way. 

Nice start! Keep them coming buddy!

[JestersHK]

I ended a bit early last night,  did not fish till daylight but had a really above average hookup kind of night with some below average mediocre fish size night.   They weren't dinky stockers, but just your every day rainbows.  Plus I was worn out from Monday still and the 4 hour drive down... getting old lol.

I did have one stand out  chunk who made some good runs and hit me way out on my cast.  He didn't make 20in but man was he built and just thick. 

Overall a good night.  I slept a bit and we just finished up at the water park... time for a shower and maybe a quick nap and I'll be ready to hit it again this evening. 

[JestersHK]

Well I didn't get to fish much last night... another trip to lovely Branson ER... my b wife is scheduled to get her gall bladder out next week, but it decided not to be cooperative last night and the night before.

She's doing much better today and finally they gave her some pain management meds until she can get that sucker taken out on Tuesday. 

I fished mostly at the drop off past rebar, and I was getting hit on just about every other cast.

Hopefully tonight's the same deal. Taking my oldest kiddo out tonight for her first night time trip! 

[MNtransplant]

31 minutes ago, JestersHK said:

Well I didn't get to fish much last night... another trip to lovely Branson ER... my b wife is scheduled to get her gall bladder out next week, but it decided not to be cooperative last night and the night before.

She's doing much better today and finally they gave her some pain management meds until she can get that sucker taken out on Tuesday. 

I fished mostly at the drop off past rebar, and I was getting hit on just about every other cast.

Hopefully tonight's the same deal. Taking my oldest kiddo out tonight for her first night time trip! 

Sorry to hear about your wife's gall bladder. See you guys in a few hours! Im stoked!

[Jhoff]

Good luck to the bunch of you tonight,  I'm going to be down around fall creek in my kayak around 10.  I love getting my kayak out so peaceful but can only do it comfortably with zero gen

[Jhoff]

I had a pretty good night had over 50 trout all rainbows, biggest was 22.5 the picture is awful though I just want to get them back in the water asap.  I had another that was right at 20 and 8 total over 17 inches.  Also had two just scream drag one pulled off the other broke off.  I would of loved to have seen those fish.  I've never had one do that before.  I learned a very valuable lesson as well spent over an hour missing fish.  I always miss some fish.  Couldn't figure out why I wasn't hooking up, so I was frustrated took a bathroom break and looked over my gear.  My hook had broke off on my jig.  Once I realized that retied and was back in the game.  I really appreciate all the great advice all you guys give on here so a novice like me can go out and catch fish.  Hope you guys caught them as well.  I'm sure you did if I had that many.

[Johnsfolly]

36 minutes ago, Jhoff said:

I had a pretty good night had over 50 trout all rainbows, biggest was 22.5 the picture is awful though

Looks god to me! Great bow! Congrats on a great night trip!