Good fortune continues.

Been killing the trout using JDM spoons and spinners in heavy water. Up until a year ago I would not have even attempted to catch trout at Normandy with high flows. Thanks to some great JDM lures…rods…..lines and other gear it has opened up waters. Got some 6 gram Smith spinners this past week….got some 8 gram Forest MIU Abalone spoons on the way and some Major Craft Eden heavy sinking minnows on the way too. Today I had 23 decent trout on the TenRyu Rayz Spectra 6’ 1” LL rod with the Varivas Infinty X 8 PE line. They were hitting 5 gram spoons on the swing. It was an absolute ball. Now I’m sure with all this rain Normandy will release so much water you can’t fish. But it won’t take to long to get it back down to 500 CFS. Already have a week booked in July out on the Little Red. This time if they run 2 generators I will have the heavy lures to fish it. Life is good!

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Beautiful fish

Those are some pretty ones

Looks like you have them figured out, no matter what the flow or conditions. Good catch


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Man, you're making me think of taking a road trip!!

The color on the first trout is beautiful! Love those red/rose cheeks.
Bob

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Looks like you have them figured out, no matter what the flow or conditions. Good catch


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I wish I had it figured out.....LOL. It can be tough fishing in that flow but it is well worth it. It is about at the limit I can fish it with lures on the gear I have.


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The color on the first trout is beautiful! Love those red/rose cheeks.
Bob

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They are some pretty fish.


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Good Job Randy! Another vote for you having a good handle on what it take with those pretty fish.

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Been killing the trout using JDM spoons and spinners in heavy water.

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How do you fish them? Have you done a video on them?

Beautiful fish!
Heavy water? Large volumn or fast flow?


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Beautiful fish!
Heavy water? Large volumn or fast flow?


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Fast flow for the width it is. Plus I only use very light stuff….6 grams is at the top. Now you can use medium or medium light gear to cast some DT 6 type lures for the few 16-19 inch fish that are there…about 250 spread out over 7 miles….but the bite might be few and far between. It is at 560 CFS today and I caught fish once again but it was tough…..only 9 fish in 1.5 hours. By the end of the week the flow will be around 650 or more and there will be almost no one fishing once it reaches that. Very few fishing it now. Tomorrow I have some 5 1/2 gram sinking minnows coming that I will give a whirl.

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How do you fish them? Have you done a video on them?

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I have not done a video….need to. I have read every thing Chris has had to say about fishing spoons from his reports and also the reports others have posted on his page. So my success at using these is really because of him. I cast out straight across or maybe at the 1 or 2 o’clock position tops. Then I feel it back and let it swing back to the middle of the stream and that is usually when the hit occurs. When I first started doing this I was fishing too fast. As Chris said most fish a spoon way too fast…..and I was. I lost a few spoons in the process of learning. I do the same with the spinners. Now some successful trout fisherman have told me to cast straight upstream and retrieve back but you are subject to lose a lot of spoons that way. I have done that but only in slower water using the 1-2 gram spoons. I watched a lot of YouTube videos about fishing spoons and spinners for trout. One very popular channel says no need to fish a spinner too deep as trout will move up in the water column to hit. But I have to tell you I have not found that to be true. My experience has me fishing them just like a spoon….slow. I now have an assortment of spoons weighted to fish from 50 CFS up to 560 anyway. It is vey addictive to fish for trout this way using the spoons with the Varivas Infinity PE X8 and feel that jolt at the end of the swing. I think I have fished over there everyday now for almost 2 weeks now. This has caused me to forget about going to Nickajack with the boat. I think I remember you telling someone on here if you can catch trout you’re not fooling with anything else….of course my memory is not what it used to be. But as long as I can make a short drive and get on trout I am afraid Nickajack will just have to wait a while.

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Good Job Randy! Another vote for you having a good handle on what it take with those pretty fish.

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Thanks Skeet…it sure us a lot of fun.


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