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I used to trout fish on the Little Red River when I was growing up in Searcy. Back then we consistently caught our bigger trout on crawdads fishing off of the bottom in the deeper holes, usually about 2lb average. But the last time I fished for trout I fished with Jeff Smith (founder of Trout Magnet and Crappie Magnets) on the Little Red and we flat wore them out. I think we caught probably 60 to 70 catch and release, of course they weren't the really big ones like we caught on crawdads, but it was a lot of fun. The way he showed me to fish trout magnets was to find a bend in the river and anchor the boat on the inside of the bend then using 4lb fluorocarbon line with a probably 1/64 oz trout magnet head and whatever color of trout magnet you like, that day it didn't matter what color you used, with a trout magnet strike indicator (tear drop shaped float) big end goes up. Then you would cast it up stream toward the deeper water of the bend, the outside of the bend, and then adjust your float so that the trout magnet is barely off of the bottom while it drifts totally unrestricted, meaning the line is nearly if not slack, it must drift exactly at the the speed of the current, until it reaches the end of your line then reel it in and repeat. You have to watch the float carefully for any indication that they have hit it, it may be very slight like a crappie bite, then set the hook. Just in case you don't know this, here's some very important advise, never ever anchor the back of your boat upstream, if you do when the anchor catches the current will come right over the back of the boat in a flash and sink your boat. I've seen this happen more than once when people are inexperienced on fishing in current, they will be motoring down stream and decide to drop the anchor and fish. Good luck and let us know how you do and how you did it.
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