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Shad rap, small blade bait if the water is deep enough (You only need 5-6FOW for a 3/16oz blade), and if you have an area you are pretty sure holds fish, drag a tiny texas rigged finesse worm very slowly, move it 6-12" at a time and pause for at least 5-10 seconds.

I saw stocked rainbows trying to spawn today so anything is possible I guess!

You can catch them on dead and cut bait, but they are suckers for a small live mullet. It's very fun to watch them chase it down too! Just gotta let them swallow it once they grab it, and that takes a really long time so you have to be patient. 20lb test leader is plenty, their teeth just poke, not slice. Sight casting with a light spinning outfit is a blast, they aren't very powerful for their size but on 8-10lb line it's plenty of fun.

"small ones" Texas

4lb red label fluoro is great, it's incredibly thin and very strong. Get a couple packs of trout magnets, I like gold, white, and pink. Get a pack or two of the 1/32oz crappie magnet jigheads to use with them if you are fishing water deeper than 3 feet or fast moving water.

Caught 8 today after school. River was up and had every fish within 3 feet of the bank. I caught some on a shakey head but it got hung up too much so I fished a 1/8oz texas rig with a trick worm and a baby d-bomb. Fished SLLLOOOWWWW. Any bass is a victory for me from December through mid March!

Landlocked Atlantic salmon look a lot like browns, the fish pictured look to be salmon to me. The jaw in relation to the eye on salmon and brown trout is similar to spots vs. largemouth. (The jaw on a salmon does not extend beyond the eye)

Don't worry, I know a guy

The brook trout is pretty ugly, but it counts!

4lb seguar fluorocarbon, shimano sienna 1000, field and stream tec lite 6'6" Light action. The line is more important than the rod and the reel is less important than that.

Trout Magnet on a 1/32oz head caught the big one, the smaller fish were caught on artificial salmon eggs.

I have been in southwestern VA for the past couple of days staying with family. I've gotten out for some trout fishing a couple of times, fishing a special regulation stream here. I have caught a mixture of wild and stocked fish, browns and rainbows. Yesterday I went out before thanksgiving lunch and caught my personal best rainbow, a holdover fish that was 23" long. Plenty of pretty wild trout mixed in too!

I can't wait to see more giants this winter!

The photo "fun day flipping" looks like Florida but the fish definitely do not look like Florida! (they are fat and healthy not skinny) Nice job!

This guy fishes smarter and harder. I'm always impressed with your fishing reports!

Shad rap, 3/16oz blade bait (Johnson thin fisher is the only lightweight one I have found, change hooks), and a t-rigged finesse worm fished SLOW! Like a jerkvait but instead of jerking between pauses you drag it

Lets see how everyone is doing! Goose season just opened here, I went with my brother and a couple friends, we got 10 this morning. My youngest brother who is a deer hunting fool got this one with his muzzleloader

I caught an AJ about that size on a flipping stick by accident while wreck fishing for small bottom dwellers. Talk about stressing equipment! Your post sums up how I feel every time I get back from the beach, I hate to say it but I probably wouldn't even look at brown and green fish if I lived close to salt water!

I have a 7' medium Kistler Magnesium Cranking rod, absolutely sweet! Still on sale on Tackle warehouse. For squarebills and 10' or less cranks, it's perfect. Loads up really nicely, lightweight, and the grip is easy on your hands. Micro guides are no fun when it's below freezing. I never use braid with a leader for stuff other than spinning rods when the line is so small that micro guides don't make a difference anyways on the knot. I mainly bank and kayak fish and from experience the biggest thing I can say about micro guides is be gentle with them

The river I fish was really blown out today, but since it's a tailwater, the mud hadn't made its way through the reservoir yet, and I decided to try and catch a bass. The places I normally walk around on (dry land) to fish would have been well over my head in depth and had too much current rolling through them for a bass (largemouth) to even think about setting up shop. There were some very small eddies up against the bank that I figured the bass had to be sitting in, there was no where else to go! The brush was pretty bad so I would walk up, and drop the bait straight into the brush. Water was pretty cold so I would just jiggle the shakey head around a little bit then dead stick it in 5-10 second intervals. Shockingly I caught 7 bass in about 2 hours. I didn't even expect a bite! I pulled two 2lb bass from this eddy on back to back pitches (more like freespool's to the bottom)

I just wonder at what point does a fishead spin make a difference from a small swimbait on a jighead. I have a clear water blue back herring lake that I plan on doing some experimenting with this winter to see if there's a difference between a little swimbait with or without the blade.

edit: This summer I had to speed up my floating hardgill to keep a beaver from running into it...fish ate it when I sped it up.

I caught an 8ish lb largemouth trolling a crankbait out of a paddle boat. We call it the stealth boat . We sometimes get right over a beaver hut and drop jigs in between the branches, still catching fish.

For me it's a spinnerbait because once it wraps around the branch it will spin around a dozen more times in a split second, no trebles to catch on anything. I also tend to put the spinnerbait up against the bank more often and in little nooks and crannies between branches.

Edit: and that somewhere was not in Blue's post right there ⬆️