Going to Tennessee in a few days and want to see if I can pull a couple trout from the mountain creeks and maybe fish a few ponds/lakes. I will be from land and wanted to see if anyone has some tips on baits or lures to use?
yellow and black rooster tails…the ones that look like a yellow jacket. DO NOT use corn like back in the good ol days… it’s illegal now. Check local laws. Some places you can’t use treble hooks and can’t use live baits certain times of the year. With the Rooster Tails, just clip 2 of the hooks off the treble.
Only clip if you can’t use treble hooks that is
I like panther martins over rooster tails the blades always spin (sometimes the roostertails blade gets stuck until halfway thru your retrieve) and they spin at slower speeds if want a slower retrieve. I like gold or silver with orange hair on the hook. Also use really light line I like 4lb test make sure your knots and drag are good. Good luck
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If you have a chance to fly fish use an elk hair chadis fly. Always my go to in the summer when I lived there as a kid.
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Green pumpkin Zoom Finesse worm on 1/16th ounce Gamakatzu ball type jighead. Throw up current and help it drift to you. The fly guys won’t appreciate it. When we had a place near Telluride, this technique worked for me.
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Cool, I will be fishing possibly this reservoir and mostly streams, is there any flies that may be heavy enough to cast? I will be using a ultra lite rod so if they were about 1/32oz I could cast it.
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And thanks everyone!!
“In every species of fish I’ve angled for, it is the ones that have got away that thrill me the most, the ones that keep fresh in my memory. So I say it is good to lose fish. If we didn’t, much of the thrill of angling would be gone.” Ray Bergman
Use inline spinners just like the guys said and the lightest line you can get away with. Floro is your friend when trout fishing. Sunline FC Sniper in 5lb is about as good as it gets and is far stronger than any other FC and yet is thinnner. Get it at Tacklewarehouse.com and you’ll be happy you have it. Best FC line going.
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[quote]Originally posted by fishingwithbob
Green pumpkin Zoom Finesse worm on 1/16th ounce Gamakatzu ball type jighead. Throw up current and help it drift to you. The fly guys won’t appreciate it. When we had a place near Telluride, this technique worked for me.
we have always stocked trout in the creek by my parents house in Ga. There are also many shoal bass in there. no telling how many trout i caught on a junebug zoom curly tail w a 1/16 1/8 bullet weight and a off set hook while bass fishing. we always fly fished for the trout, but pops did not like fly fishing. he would fish for them with plastic worms(texas rigged) and out fish us most times. the fly guys wont like it at all but like dad always says to them,“the fish dont care what kind of lure he is caught on, so why do you”.
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Using a fly rod would be my best bet but if you’ve only got a spinning reel then I would def go with either a rooster tail or a topwater bass lure or something.
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. -Wayne Gretsky
I grew up trout fishing and professionally guiding on the Mokelumne River. Rooster Tails worked very well there. They worked great while I was at Clemson (in the Chattooga River), and everywhere else I’ve fished them for trout (and many other species).
I have a simple trick when I use them. Set up for a cross-current retrieve (probably most important). Cast and let settle to the bottom. Wait 10 or 20 seconds. Pop it off the bottom with a quick snap; that gets your spoon moving in a nice slow pattern. Retrieve as slowly as possible; too slow and the spoon will stall, but really slow creates a pattern that consistently gets hard strikes. Often you will see several fish flashing past the lure before banging it and hooking up.
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