Nice Day On The River.

[taxidermist]

Wife and I headed out to White River, great day and man did the sun feel good on these old bones.

SW power admin, said there was zero units on line, we arrived a the river and there were two units running and the fish were HUNGRY!!!

We quit counting at 50 fish all but one were rainbows. we did keep two limits (to hell with catch and release, I catch and eat) nice limit of fish from 14 to 17 inches.

This batch is headed to the smoker tomorrow!!!

Standard fillet, leaving the skin on, then removing the pin bones for bonesless fillets.

Mild peper and salt allow this to sit ont the fillet for about 60 minutes the salt firms the meat a bit more.

Fresh hickory and get the smoker smoking well. cook about 60 minutes at a medium heat and hummmm good.

[Yakfly]

(to hell with catch and release, I catch and eat)

I dunno, by your math over 40 got to swim away! I think the fishery will be OK.

I enjoy your reports, what section of the river were you fishing, and what did you catch them on?

[taxidermist]

That day we fished the big chute beloow Cotter dwon to the catch and release area.

Yea we release a lot of fish, so theres no problems with having a few next week.

We did two weeks of tagging fish last summer with orange plastic tags like is used for clothing and we have not caught them a second time. We have seen a few swim by or under the boat with the orange tags but not many.

Wife is down with the flu and I need to have LITHOTRIPSY for a stone, spent last night in the hospital with it. so I think we will miss this weekend.

We fish different areas and have about the same luck everywhere.

We have fished the upper end of TACOMO and done pretty good but we throw a lot of crankbaits,the smmall rebel crawdad works really well in light green up there.