Reflection day

[Crow Terminator]

I'm out on the White River this week and today was the first day of fishing. For some reason I couldn't help but think of Ruger while out there watching the day begin and fog lift from the water. I never got to fish with him but know he liked going to the White to fish.

I had missed 6 fish in a row and then bam. I know Ruger hated the term PB so I will say..I caught the dang biggest brown trout I've ever caught. 30" long and 18" girth. This one was for you Ruger. Our guide Mike is holding it...I was too shook up to try to lol

20 hit the net today. Most were 22-24 inches. My trip is already made now. It's relaxing time.

 

[bluball]

Awsome

 

[scn]

He would have been really happy for you!

Congratulations on a great trip, and thanks for sharing!

 

[moondawg]

Nice! The White River is one of my favorite places to go. I will be thinking about him when I go in November.

 

[redblood]

awesome. id say that beats trolling for crappie. great fish

 

[CATCHDAWG]

Those are some GREAT fish man, congrats!

 

[Crow Terminator]

Last day of fishing was today. We sat on a 20+ pounder for 2 days and couldn't get it to bite. I did get 2 more 8 pounders though and several 22-24 inch "hammer handles".

 

[57bear]

Where did you fish out of?

 

[Crow Terminator]

Where did you fish out of?

Cotter bridge ramp, up to wildcat shoals and one day at the state park area.

 

[redblood]

Looks like a great trip

 

[Crow Terminator]

Looks like a great trip

Every trip I go, leaves me wanting to move out there. We actually rode around a couple afternoons looking at land for sale and scouting potential work places. There's mostly boat factories there and ALL of them just recently announced layoffs, including all of the ones in the White River Group....Ranger, Triton, Tracker, etc. Not looking good as those are the bread and butter places for that area.

Fishing wise...we beat the caddis hatch and the fishing was really good for using bait. We used dead shad in the 3 to 4 inch range, thrown on river rigs and open bailed fishing. You'd hold the line on your finger til you got a bite then let it run free spool for a few yards then close down on it. Very similar to catfishing; setup in a hole in one spot and anchor down It's amazing how many fish one spot can hold. Water was at minimum flow too during the day...first time I'd seen it low like that. It made going across some of those shoals a bit tense to me and I was glad it wasn't my boat The rainbows were down lower around Wildcat to Cotter. The water was warmer there...it was still low 40s up towards the state park area and although rainbows were there, they weren't as actively being caught as they were further down. The big browns were chomping though.

 

[thirdwilliam]

great trip

 

[Crappieaddict]

Congrats on a great trip!

 

[7mm08]

Fantastic trip. Your guide or guide service?

 

[Crow Terminator]

Fantastic trip. Your guide or guide service?

He is a friend of ours that lives out there. He doesn't have a guide service for public hire. For that, I would recommend Cranors service but the quality of fish you catch with them, depends largely on what guide you get paired with. You'll catch lots of numbers with them but chances are, you won't sit on one hole with a big fish in it. We chose to do that to try for double digit fish.

 

[7mm08]

He is a friend of ours that lives out there. He doesn't have a guide service for public hire. For that, I would recommend Cranors service but the quality of fish you catch with them, depends largely on what guide you get paired with. You'll catch lots of numbers with them but chances are, you won't sit on one hole with a big fish in it. We chose to do that to try for double digit fish.

Thanks! I used to go to PJ's a LONG time ago.

 

[Shanman]

Wow!!!

 

[Crow Terminator]

Here's the 20 pounder we tried to catch on my trip! The guy that we went with is friends with the guide that caught it this week. That's the kinda fish you go out there for!

 

[mayberryrick]

Wow