I want to fish a narrow, slow section ing hte Paulinskill river.  It's either a bank fishing or a wader kind of thing.  Could I have thoughts on bait and tackle for a cast and retrieve.  Wade-able water.  Thinking a texposed worm, 1/8th oz weight?  I have a medium 6-6 fast tip rod and an ultra-light, fast, 5 ft Kunnan (1/16th - 1/4oz lure).  Thanks.  

Small swim baits, Texas rigged worms either weightless or a tiny weight, a small inline spinner on the ultralight (like an eighth ounce panther Martin), small topwaters if the are looking up. 
 

also, wait until after the rain we are getting Monday. The higher water should get the fish feeding. 

Thanks, buddy. 

Rage Menace, T-rigged and 3/16 bullet weight

Using Ultra Light Tackle you will need light wire smaller hooks no larger then size 1. Gamakatsu has a finesse jig in 1/32, 1/16, 1/8 oz with size 1 premium sharp hook.

You can use a wide verity of soft plastics between 2 1/2” to 3” worms or swimbaits, Keitech 2.8 Fat Impact or Little Spder for example.

Hard lures like a Heddon Tiny Torpedo.

Tom 

I have no practical experience in the type of water you are describing, but it sounds like ned rig territory to me.

8 hours ago, Lead Head said:

I have no practical experience in the type of water you are describing, but it sounds like ned rig territory to me.

 

Only if you have weedless and light heads (1/15 is where I'd start).  Some bits are typical freestone riffle/pool/tailout but the slower bits get weedy like upland streams are prone to.

On 8/21/2022 at 3:01 PM, roadwarrior said:

Rage Menace, T-rigged and 3/16 bullet weight

I hear you.  Don't have any, but settled on the Big Bite 4" finesse grub - pretty close.  Using 1/16th lead bullet weight for ease of casting with the short rod. (I hadn't planned any of this when I posted.) Also taking 4.5 " PlasmaTails and the 6" Creme Scoundrels.  Using 1.0 offset worm hooks for texsposed rig.  Sounds like a reasonable plan. I've never fished this way before.  Watched a ton of the YouTube Creek Adventure guy.  I got waders when I thought I was going to fly-fish.  That didn't last long but I got the equipment.        

 

On 8/21/2022 at 3:59 PM, WRB said:

Using Ultra Light Tackle you will need light wire smaller hooks no larger then size 1. Gamakatsu has a finesse jig in 1/32, 1/16, 1/8 oz with size 1 premium sharp hook.

You can use a wide verity of soft plastics between 2 1/2” to 3” worms or swimbaits, Keitech 2.8 Fat Impact or Little Spder for example.

Hard lures like a Heddon Tiny Torpedo.

Tom 

I might have the little spiders or something like it.  Thanks!

Been meaning to ask this question - my smallest swimbait is 3.5" paddletail "suicide shad."  Is that "small"?  Also have become interested in the Itty Bitty baits, but those might be too small to entertain bass(?)

Should be god.

Tom

On 8/21/2022 at 11:22 AM, casts_by_fly said:

Small swim baits, Texas rigged worms either weightless or a tiny weight, a small inline spinner on the ultralight (like an eighth ounce panther Martin), small topwaters if the are looking up. 
 

also, wait until after the rain we are getting Monday. The higher water should get the fish feeding. 

I'm going back on the Paulinskill tomorrow.  It's a new place where it actually forks.  The first time was a complete bust.  It was a tough day anyway, but I didn't even see any fish in the water.  I kept trying for about three hours, and I had a great time exploring and wading (without waders) and stuff, but no fish.

I used a tex rigged 1/16th head-weighted (worm that snaked very appealingly along the bottom.  The rod I used was too heavy, so I'd like to try that again with a lighter rod.

I also wanted to ask if anyone used the small CoolBait spinner. 

https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Coolbaits_Lure_Co_The_Down_Under_Weedless_Underspin/descpage-CLCWU.html

A small willow underspin attached to a minnow-head for smaller plastic trailers.  I keep loving how this looks in the water but I've never got bitten with it.    

I also have two or three itty-bitty jigs that I could try....  I don't care what I catch - anything would be helpful.   

For the Coolbait: I used the black/silver, 3/8th oz.

For the Coolbait: I used the black/silver, 3/8th oz. Shallow water

Sounds like some of the water I fish on the Juniata river. We have great luck with the rebel wee crawfish.

2 hours ago, GaryH said:

Sounds like some of the water I fish on the Juniata river. We have great luck with the rebel wee crawfish.

 

2 hours ago, GaryH said:

Sounds like some of the water I fish on the Juniata river. We have great luck with the rebel wee crawfish.

Awesome. I have one of those. Thank!

Also will grab a couple of the panther martins. They look great. Thanks, casts_by_fly.