Another Holiday Monday Report....

[The Urban Fisherman]

The resevoir opened up for the season this weekend and with bad weather an plenty of work to get done around the house I was only able to sneak out for a couple hours Monday morning.

 

Fished a micro jig for panfish the first hour or so and managed a mixed bag of rock bass, perch, bluegill and OOS largies. For the most part the bigger bluegill have already moved back out into deeper water. Any weed edge produced a few fish.

 

Eventually my hands couldn't take the cold anymore and I decided to try trolling for bow's. With ZERO experience I tied a 4lb fluoro leader onto my 7' spinning rod and tied a 2" original floating rap to the end. Started trolling, just poured myself a warm cup of coffee was about to take my first sip and my rod goes nuts, drop the coffee and reel in my first ever trolling rainbow - a perfectly pan sized 17 incher! Put up a decent fight on light tackle.

 

Next up was this suicidal bluegill.

 

Fished for another 45 minutes - had three more hits but only landed 1 more bow.

 

Cleaned them up and had fresh fish on the BBQ for dinner. It was my first time keeping, or eating rainbow trout. One fish had a much stronger taste than the other. Could 1 be a stocker and the other a home-grown?

 

Anyways - it was a short outing, and I look forward to learning more about trolling for these little resevoir trout.

Any tips are welcome!

 

 

Cheers,

UF