This was a good week for Bobby Baucom from Missouri who came down to harass our fish. He’s a repeat customer and good friend by now. Bobby always brings me a surprise. One thing I can count on is pickles that he canned from last year. Best ever!
Bobby came down in the latter part of the week after the temperature cooled. Those two days were so hot my dogs didn’t want to go outside. Then a drastic difference in temperature and the fish reacted to the change Wow, some nice fish were caught this last week.
We caught our trout on the White River below Beaver Dam. Mostly using white and sunrise power bait tipped with a piece of worm injected with air. With your weight/sinker Carolina rig about 18+ inches away from your hook and bait, right now the river is high, so you want a longer leader. We were also drift fishing – letting the boat and river flow us along slowly – bumping our bait along the bottom, which can feel like bites all along the way. But after you get that first hang on a fish you can tell the difference. You’re hooked.
All the reports I’m getting from the Kings River has me wanting to go on a fly-fishing excursion for smallmouth over there. Good flies to use would be any crawdad pattern, San Juan worm in natural worm color and right before dark pull out any kind of hopper. Anything on top water. If you’re going with the spinning rig, I would pull out a white with a red tip rooster tail, rebel crawdad, tube jig pumpkin seed color, and again right at dusk tie on anything top water. My favorite is a tiny torpedo. Any color should do I really think it’s the action that triggers them.
The best fishing is very early in the morning 5-6 a.m. and wrapping up by 10, then back to it after 5 p.m. and into the evening. If you need help getting out into nature, just give us a call at Custom Adventures Guide Service (479) 244-5259