Normandy
 

Headed to Normandy today even though the water is way too high to properly fish the Trout Magnet. I wanted to get into some trout so I used the old technique that browntrout showed me and one they use on The White River a lot. I used a Trout Magnet Worm on a #4 long shank hook with an orange Berkley PowerBait Power Egg to keep it just off the bottom and a 1/3 ounce split shot 18 inches above the hook. Cast downstream and tried to keep the rig as close to center stream as possible. Caught 47 trout in two hours. Lot of fun with the Ul setup. They are beginning to decrease the flow a little there and I hope it gets down to under 300 CFS soon.


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Congrats!

Excellent. Ethan and I couldn't land any down there 3 weeks ago.

Can't wait to be able to put the kayaks in. 300cfs would be nice.

Billy

alpha, great job! would like to see a photo of that rig

A kayaker put in today Billy. I guess he was going to paddle back up.


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Here is the hook rigged with the trout worm. Just put power egg on the hook and a split shot 18 inches above the hook. Depending on how much current will determine the size the weight will have to be. This is a common rig on the White River.

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Great info and great report.Nice job alpha!

great info, thanks

Jerry Mckinnis used that type rig for trout back in 60's but instead of power bait used corn or red wiggler under the worm.

Boy there's a name from the past. Sounds good to me. The way they do that on the White is cast it out and just drift downstream with it bumping the bottom.....it is deadly that way.


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ALPHA!!! WTF! Do you know EVERY TECHNIQUE in the world to catch fish?????

(Will you come live with me?)

LOL....no Merv the only techniques I know are what someone taught me. I just got tired of sitting home and not fishing because the river wasn't conducive to how I wanted to fish it. So off I went with plan B and just sat on my bucket and had a lot of fun. Still can't believe I went to Cumberland City Steam Plant and didn't even catch a yellow belly....LOL.


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I fished with Don Jarvis and William Brown on Center Hill today.

4 hours, three guys, = no bites!

Not NO FISH, NO BITES!

Thats because you don't ask me to go ,I went out today and caught two bass and two bluegills but still know crappie all on the spider rig.................woody

Good work on all those nice trout, Alpha.

I wondered if you were fishing next to the dam or is the water too high for that? I don't think I could handle climbing down all that bric-a-brac (down a ways from the dam) to get to the water. Do you think fishing down near the bridge would be worth a shot?

Are you using 2# line with that rig? I used that same setup with great success in the urban ponds in Vegas except that I used Berkley 3" floating trout worms as the bait with a size 6 or 8 Aberdeen. Same sinker setup with 4 or 6# line.

Luck... Dennis