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Okay, so in Kauai last week it was mainly a trip to hang out with the family, but you know I couldn’t be surrounded by all that water in Kauai and not wet a line!
Generally, the the inshore fishing there didn’t seem all that hot, but there were enough critters around to keep things interesting.
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The Pimped Out Egg Loop is handy for back-bounce rigs, Cowlitz-style steelie side-drift rigs, mooching rigs…and just impressing your friends!
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Give a kid a hatchery trout and you’ll have a fishing buddy for life! Not only will they have a ball reeling ‘em in, the next part is even better.
When you go to clean the fish, let the kiddies touch the slimy sides, poke the eyes and squish the guts in their fingers. Good times!
That’s exactly what regular FishwithJD reader Vince T. did recently with kids Bo and Colby on a Nor Cal lake. With mom Noelle as a deckhand, the gang had a ball catching a mess o’ trout…
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Poor ol’ grayling…they just don’t get much respect in Alaska.
And it’s no wonder, with all the other glamour species up there to chase around like mouse-eating, leopard rainbows, giant kings, leaping coho and barndoor halibut. But, these distant cousins of the whitefish, the so-called “Sailfish of the North,” have some worthy qualities.
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Friend and veteran lake Tahoe charter skipper Mike Nielsen of Tahoe Topliners Guide Service holds a new Lake Tahoe record for brown trout that client Don Nanounouchi of San Jose, CA caught with him on Friday, June 20. The beast weighed 15 pounds, 2 ounces.
The previous mark was held by a 14-pound, 3-ounce fish caught in 2006 by an angler Nielsen is very familiar with — himself.
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My good pal Mike Perusse of Washington State shows that you don’t necessarily need to have pink fingers at the end of the day to catch a river king.
Mikey caught and released this chrome beauty on Alaska’s Nushagak River on a 15 -foot GLoomis spey rod and a fly affectionately known as “Blue Bird.”
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Senkos are some of the deadliest bass baits on the planet…here’s how you can make them work even better:
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