5/8

[WestCentralFisher]

Had a wonderful day on the river yesterday. Fished at an access a ways above Bennett, right near the confluence, and a number of miles below. I did reasonably well everywhere. Rainbows were fairly easy to come by everywhere except above the spring branch. Also got a couple small browns, a few smallmouth, and a whole bunch of very fat goggle eye.

River was up and dark green to tan but far from muddy/blown out. I waded a good distance at each access, not because it was necessary but just to see as much river as possible. Some places that had been real slow much of the last year fished well. Good to see.

I mostly used a little ~2" white soft plastic swimbait bounced on the bottom. Worked well for all species and elicited vicious reaction strikes from the stocker rainbows especially.  A new technique I stumbled on out of curiosity. A tiny Panther Martin spinner was also effective, especially for the little browns. Just overall a real good day. Never non-stop action, but never too slow either. 

 

[Hawg]

Looks nice. I might head out there..