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Took a Hendrix Jig/crawler, slip floated 3.5 ' under surface .
7'6"Berkley Trout Dough series rod 4# test mono

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Comment by John Sheehan on February 8, 2017 at 9:16am

Sounds like you know your stuff there Mike ! Good luck !

Comment by Mike Cooper on February 8, 2017 at 7:36am

Nice one John!

Now I'm going to be watching the calendar. They usually stock rainbows in the local lake sometime early in March. They don't survive the summer temps, so I don't feel a bit guilty when I take a limit (5) to eat.

It's often very windy, and I often use a "Carolina Rig" and the floating trout dough to keep the bait in the fish zone and off the bottom. I even bought one of those "catapult" outfits (chumming slingshot) to launch some corn for chum. I use an Okuma ABF20 baitrunner reel for that fishing. Best hook I've found is a kahle hook in size 10-14. Solid hookups and very few toss the hook when they go aerial with the fight.

My favorite years are when we get a heavy rain after they stock them. Some go over the spillway into the deep hole (old rock quarry) the spillway empties into. After a few days (when the current drops a little) I can catch them there on the fly rod. Just drift about any bluegill fly in my box in the current edge where the water runs in from the spillway, and it's soon "fish on!".

Comment by carl hendrix on February 7, 2017 at 12:01pm

ANOTHER ONE ON ONE OF MY JIGS ?   WOW!   THE FISH MUST NOT HAVE BEEN FUSSY AS TO WHAT TO HIT;; LOL

Comment by John Sheehan on January 27, 2017 at 10:43am

Actually it was not although the fish looked strong and muscular it gave in rather easily.

Comment by Slip Sinker on January 27, 2017 at 9:52am

was it a good fight?

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