James Friday

[RSBreth]

Fished Friday morning until about 2 p.m. Only saw one boat fishing, looked like grandpa taking the grandson out. They were throwing buzzbaits, and not catching anything according to them. I have had a hard time catching much with topwaters of any kind so far this year, could be the flooding has the fish out of sorts. Maybe after the rivers levels are stable for a while.

I have had a good time throwing soft jerkbaits the past few trips, so I decided to throw a floating jerkbait, and couldn't keep fish off of it! Caught a couple of others on a texas rigged Smallie Beaver in pools off the main current, but nothing like the ones on the jerkbait. No monsters, just lots of good 1 to 2 pound fish.

You can see the model and color of the lure I was using in the photo,

bonus points to the first correct guess.

I should have taken more pictures, but the fishing was good, hard to stop when you're really catching them.

[WebFreeman]

Looks like a rogue, but I can't tell the color. The second pic looks like a blue back, orange belly.

[RSBreth]

Ding ding ding!

Correct.

Rattlin' Rogue,(Floating) Blue back, Orange belly.

Figured it was a good choice since my biggest Table Rock Smallie was caught on the suspending version.

[Terry Beeson]

RSB, what section of the river are you fishing? I may have to try some flies out in my new upcoming position as a semi-professional angling bum...

[RSBreth]

I was down from Hootentown, how far down, well... I wasn't to McCord bend.

Throw clousers, I tie them in the same color as that jerkbait, hard to find at the fly shop, though standard colors work o.k. too.

Hit the current seams at top of pools, and work them with lots of short hard twitches.

When water levels settle down for a while, I'll bust out my 8 weight too.