Trout Fishing Q#..?

[SMS]

I grew up fishing the Little Red River in Arkansas, when they were not generating we always used salmon eggs, corn, or wax worms, sometimes threw a small marshmellow on there. Never used a float. I am sure it would work with one, but the water is mostly shallow and really clear there.
When the water was moving I would just use a small spoon or spinner.

almost forgot about corn...used that a bunch too in addition to nightcrawlers and salmon eggs.

 

[crg1372]

almost forgot about corn...used that a bunch too in addition to nightcrawlers and salmon eggs.

Haven't used the corn, but one of the trout I cleaned last week was stuffed with the stuff. Believe some of the fisherman who are bottom fishing on the Blue River are chumming the water with it.

 

[dennishoddy]

Nightcrawlers are really good. You can buy an inflator at any of the trout shops. Its a device to blow an air bubble into the worm to make it float just off the bottom. Deadly.

 

[JCW355]

http://flyfishing.about.com/od/findingfish/tp/FishFeedingZones.htm

 

[SMS]

Nightcrawlers are really good. You can buy an inflator at any of the trout shops. Its a device to blow an air bubble into the worm to make it float just off the bottom. Deadly.

This thread's getting me all nostalgic. We had a couple small brooks near my childhood home, full of native trout. Almost had to low crawl up the water so as not to spook 'em. Good eating.

 

[criticalbass]

You can get the occasional surprise. The state record striper/sandbass hybrid was caught below the Altus-Lugert dam, by a trout fisherman. Fish weighed over 23 pounds (full of trout, no doubt). He is a taxidermist at Hobart, and if I remember correctly his name is Paul Hollister. He said it was quite a fight on the trout rig. Keep your drag set nice and loose, just in case. CB

I did remember correctly: http://www.wildlifedepartment.com/listing2.htm

 

[dennishoddy]

You can get the occasional surprise. The state record striper/sandbass hybrid was caught below the Altus-Lugert dam, by a trout fisherman. Fish weighed over 23 pounds (full of trout, no doubt). He is a taxidermist at Hobart, and if I remember correctly his name is Paul Hollister. He said it was quite a fight on the trout rig. Keep your drag set nice and loose, just in case. CB

I did remember correctly: http://www.wildlifedepartment.com/listing2.htm

Thats good advice.
Was at the LIR a couple of years back, at Marvals using a spinning rig and colorado spoon. Got a tremendous hook set, and the fight was on. Had to run alongside the bank fighting the fish or else the 4 lb line would have broken or ran out of line on the spool.
About 5 minutes later, landed a tail hooked carp that weighed in the neighborhood of 5 lbs. Heck of a fight though

 

[TERPSTER]

I have got ahold of a couple of striper while crappie fishing, it sure is one hell of a fight.

 

[crg1372]

Fishin was really slow at Blue River today. Fished at Hughes Crossing for about an hour and a half and never got a bite. Saw one fish caught while I was there. Moved over to area two and they were biting good there. They didn't stock yesterday and were supposed to stock today. They never showed up while I was there but this stocking is coming from Missouri. Larger trout on average of about 2lbs. from what I was told by the resident Ranger. Didn't do to bad overall. Here's my catch from today....

 

[Glockwork1987]

nice catch, are you going to the LIR on feb 5th?