Living the dream.

Well boys….I got an invite to fish off a guys dock this evening on the Little Red. The water was about 10 feet deep…. current dumping into a flat spot by the dock. I used the Niakis spinner and Susan….my wife….netted about 100 trout for me in 3 hours. I didn’t get any iPhone pics but got some great video footage. Most of the fish were at the 13 inch mark with a quite few at 14 inches. It was either a fish every cast or one or more hits on each cast…..many fish giving me several jumps. It was insane. The guy with me was using what he would normally use for that situation and was slow going. I gave him one of the spinners and it was game on for him too. I also tried out the Timon blade baits for trout. They would swarm that thing. The rod was the TenRyu Rayz Spectra 6’ 1” LL…..line was the 4# test Twitch Master. Decided to stay until Friday….LOL. Life is good and getting better!

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How awesome, that is some serious fish-catching!

Wow that’s very pretty water. Good looking trout. Sounds like a blast.

At that catch rate a man doesn't have time for photos

Wow, a REAL nice trip and man the fish were cooperating. Congrats and an extension to your stay sounds like a plan. The current looks to be good and the water level looks to be decent! Fish on!
Bob

Thanks for the comments. Hard to fish the Little Red on 2 units with UL gear. Had the host of the Air BnB not taken pity on me and took me to a dock down from his it would have only been a few fish a day. Hoping to get on that dock at least once more before leaving Friday. Been a fantastic trip….vacation, here in Arkansas.

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If it gets better than that, please don’t tell me. Sounds like a great time Randy, enjoy the stay.

Those are the kind of days we live for! Congrats. What or where is Little Red?

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Trout river in Arkansas. It is world class. Even though I did not catch any big fish there are plenty of big ones in the river. It held the world record for a brown trout for a number of years. That fish…over 40 pounds….is the 3rd largest brown trout ever caught. The cabin I am staying at is at Cow Shoals….a catch and release areas that holds huge fish. Barbless hooks only in this section. Fishing this river on low flow, if you fished a full 8 hours, you could probably net over 200 trout in the 12-16 inch range. I have been out here quite a few times but this is my first trip back in about 4 years….but am already making plans to come back in the Fall.

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Wow, I am so glad you had such a wonderful trip.
In my humble opinion it doesn’t get any better than that!


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Would love to fish the Red and White Rivers some day.

Pic of the Niakis spinner?

Beautiful fish, great story Randy. Always enjoy your adventures, thanks for sharing. [emoji106]
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Interesting — and I like the single hook.

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Thanks for sharing I will be looking for the video.

Man what a beautiful body of water. God sure created some beauty in this world. Enjoy!

A nice looking piece of tackle, Chris.
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As Chris posted pics of the spinners I will forgo that. Have been in a state of depression since returning home...LOL. For 7 days all I had to do was walk out a door and fish. I can't recommend the Little Red enough. If the river is on 1 unit, or no flow, lots of places to walk in and fish. As to those spinners....I highly recommend them. I caught over 400 trout on them my week out there...no line twist at all...and trout do love them. I gave my host 5 of them and that is what he fished with...and he wants more. He was very impressed with them and this is coming from a man who fishes that river darn near every day. The Smith website has a pretty good read about them...here is a link.

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I have heard about the Red for years. For some reason, it doesn’t get the publicity of the big rivers out west. (Arkansas fishermen are probably happy about that.) ;)

When staying at Norfolk Lake did take a couple of trips on White River which were incredible as far as numbers of trout and you can rent a boat easily enough. Norfolk itself is an underutilized lake as far as numbers of folks who are on it. Was there fourth of july one year and there was literally not even a dozen boats on the water! Few folks on the White where they have taken some huge browns there as well and it's a ketch and Keep section so you end up with your limits of trout. The crappie, bass and especially the striper fishing at daylight where you stand poised with your silver spoons looking for some bait balls being smashed by the big stripers is a blast and totally different type of fishing.

Good sized crappie there too.

GREAT report and story thanks!

That don't sound bad at all. I live in Oregon and haven't fished for trout in a whole lot of years. Not my favorite to eat but even worse is seemed all I'd ever catch were 8" and 9" planter's and then the limit is five! Last time out was to East Lake, pretty much learned to fish there with my step dad in the late 1940's. Don't recall how big the fish were then but I was really young and a 8" fish would have been a monster! I keep telling myself I have to take a trip to East Lake again one of these days. I ultra light trout! Last trip for trout was there with the ex wife over 20 yrs ago. Caught lot's of fish and threw them all back but did think about keeping a 9 1/4" one! Going there is kinda like a trip backward in my life, way backward

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As Chris posted pics of the spinners I will forgo that. Have been in a state of depression since returning home...LOL. For 7 days all I had to do was walk out a door and fish. I can't recommend the Little Red enough. If the river is on 1 unit, or no flow, lots of places to walk in and fish. As to those spinners....I highly recommend them. I caught over 400 trout on them my week out there...no line twist at all...and trout do love them. I gave my host 5 of them and that is what he fished with...and he wants more. He was very impressed with them and this is coming from a man who fishes that river darn near every day. The Smith website has a pretty good read about them...here is a link.

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Anyone know how to read a Japanese site in English? I used Google Translate and the result was so poor, it's worthless.

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Google translate is my tool of choice. Depending on what site it can be an exercise in futility to figure out what they are really saying. When you do it long enough you figure out how to read between the lines....but even then it can be tough going.

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I will have to try Chrome browser because, as I said, the results were worthless and I mean just that. Google owns Chrome.