lower flows=smaller fish ?

[loo10]

Good to hear that you think the larger fish are around somewhere, now it's just a matter of finding them.

I plan on fishing at night to target the larger fish, sounds about what i had in mind, buggers, sculpin patterns and streamers. Have you had a shad kill in the lake this year... i am betting it has been to warm. thanks again .

'Flicker,

I havent heard anything about any shad.

And I was really hoping too.

Target big fish...you'll pick up some bigger fish.

Good luck.

[Seth]

Brett Rader uses small scuds and Gbugs almost exclusively and his clients and him catches loads of big fish sight fishing.

Also, I read somewhere that the world record brown that Rip Collins caught had a whole belly full of scuds when they checked the stomach.

I know big browns eat smaller trout, but I believe they eat plenty of scuds and smaller stuff to go with there diet.

Brett had a picture of a 30" plus brownie that he guessed at about 20lbs on his site that he caught this fall on a scud or gbug pattern. The new state record was taken on a scud also.

I hear more big trout caught on smaller stuff than big stuff.

[loo10]

Brett Rader uses small scuds and Gbugs almost exclusively and his clients and him catches loads of big fish sight fishing.

Also, I read somewhere that the world record brown that Rip Collins caught had a whole belly full of scuds when they checked the stomach.

I know big browns eat smaller trout, but I believe they eat plenty of scuds and smaller stuff to go with there diet.

Brett had a picture of a 30" plus brownie that he guessed at about 20lbs on his site that he caught this fall on a scud or gbug pattern. The new state record was taken on a scud also.

I hear more big trout caught on smaller stuff than big stuff.

No doubt about it.

Why are more muskies caught on black than any other color????

Because more people use black than any other color.

[Fox Statler]

Black also contrast very well with any background color or any water color.

A trout can swallow a fish 1/3 of its length. So a 30 inch trout (no matter what species) can swallow a 10 inch minnow shaped fish.

In the White River below Bull Shoals, 30 pound plus browns always live in the same type of environment. They occupy the bottom of a teacup hole below a well fished bait fishermen's shoal. A teacup hole falls in on all sides. Small trout injured by the bait fishermen die and roll along the bottom with the current and end up in the teacup hole. There, at the big brown's leisure, they are eaten. If the shoal is turned into a catch-n-release area, the big brown will leave because its food supply goes away. The hole below Rose Bud Shoals on the White river below Cotter is an example of this.

While big browns often eat scuds, after reaching 3 to 5 pounds they become primarily meat eaters. A white rabbit hair strip from 4 to 10 inches long is a good imitation of an intestine and catches browns quite well, so do large trout and minnow imitations tied in the Floating Dead position (belly up). The most common minnow in the White River System, the Duskystripe Shiner, reaches 5 inches in length. The second most common minnow, the Golden Redhorse, grows to 8 inches in the first year. Because the average lifespan of baitfish is less than 3 years there are plenty of dead ones, they are just eaten quickly by scavanging predator fish before they clutter the bottom. Nothing is wasted in a healthy aquatic environment.