Productive day at the Clifton Forge VA reservoir. I felt like I cheated. I tried spinners, rapalas, and they wouldn't bite. Then, I fished a way that I haven't for years, hook and sinker. I put on some fluorescent yellow power bait and that was the ticket.

Nice!  I went out Thursday for some trout and they wouldn't hit my spinners either.  I didn't have any powerbait but there were a bunch of other guys there fishing it and they weren't catching anything either so I don't think it would have made a difference.  The bass need to start biting.  Im getting tired of trout.

I haven't seen a fish stringer like that in 50 years.............lol, could be I don't use them anymore.

I haven't seen a fish stringer like that in 50 years.............lol, could be I don't use them anymore.

Last time I owned/saw one the better part of the stringer and most of the crappie I had on it were somewhere inside the mouth of a very large flathead catfish that was slowly dragging my 2 man boat and refusing to let go of those crappie   . Thankfully the stringer tore through their soft mouths and my boat didn't end up looking like the buoys from JAWS. 

i wish the bass would start biting more also. i normally catch and release but stocked trout are not very hardy.