May 21 Big M area

[Quillback]

I caught my annual Table Rock trout today.  Seems I average about one a year while bass fishing.  There is a story to it.

I fished for trout and salmon a lot when I lived in the Pacific Northwest.  Trolled for them quite a bit in the lakes and in Puget Sound.  Very common to troll for those species using what are called flashers or dodgers which are flat pieces of metal, that usually have some sort of bend or curve in them, coming though the water they will wobble and turn side to side.  You tied a leader to the flasher or dodger, then on the other end of the leader you can tie something like a spoon or fly.  The dodger/flasher imparts a herky-jerky motion to the lure and trout and salmon will hit the lure.  The flasher or dodger also sends out a mettalic flash that looks like a fish feeding.  It is thought the flasher/dodger attracts fish thinking there's some feeding going on and then they see the lure and bite it.

Anyway I mention this because today I was fishing a Carolina rig and I snagged a what looked to be a flattened beer can or soda can on the sliding sinker.  I'm bringing it in, the can is sort of wobbling through the water, reflecting the sun, and I get it about 15 feet from the boat and a trout grabs the craw I was using on the C-rig.  Nice trout around 15 inches.

Can't believe how flukey it was to get a trout in Table Rock with a beer-can flasher.  You spend enough time fishing and flukey stuff happens.

The bass fishing was a little slow for this time of year.  I caught a little over 20, with 2 keepers.  I caught some on the edge of the bushes with a 3/8 oz jig.  A few on gravel with the c-rigged craw.  10 or so out deep, over 40-50 FOW on a 3.3 Keitech.

Did not see much top water activity in spite of shad being up top.

Water is brownish with 2 feet or so of viz.  WT 71,

[BilletHead]

2 hours ago, Quillback said:

I caught my annual Table Rock trout today.  Seems I average about one a year while bass fishing.  There is a story to it.

I fished for trout and salmon a lot when I lived in the Pacific Northwest.  Trolled for them quite a bit in the lakes and in Puget Sound.  Very common to troll for those species using what are called flashers or dodgers which are flat pieces of metal, that usually have some sort of bend or curve in them, coming though the water they will wobble and turn side to side.  You tied a leader to the flasher or dodger, then on the other end of the leader you can tie something like a spoon or fly.  The dodger/flasher imparts a herky-jerky motion to the lure and trout and salmon will hit the lure.  The flasher or dodger also sends out a mettalic flash that looks like a fish feeding.  It is thought the flasher/dodger attracts fish thinking there's some feeding going on and then they see the lure and bite it.

Anyway I mention this because today I was fishing a Carolina rig and I snagged a what looked to be a flattened beer can or soda can on the sliding sinker.  I'm bringing it in, the can is sort of wobbling through the water, reflecting the sun, and I get it about 15 feet from the boat and a trout grabs the craw I was using on the C-rig.  Nice trout around 15 inches.

Can't believe how flukey it was to get a trout in Table Rock with a beer-can flasher.  You spend enough time fishing and flukey stuff happens.

The bass fishing was a little slow for this time of year.  I caught a little over 20, with 2 keepers.  I caught some on the edge of the bushes with a 3/8 oz jig.  A few on gravel with the c-rigged craw.  10 or so out deep, over 40-50 FOW on a 3.3 Keitech.

Did not see much top water activity in spite of shad being up top.

Water is brownish with 2 feet or so of viz.  WT 71,

                 What brand of beer did you catch it on?