Trout trip turns to Smallie trip (pic)!

Bassboss · 06-13-11, 12:38 AM

Me and my dad went out to the Red river roday planing on catching some trout for dinner. How ever it didn't quite work out that way!

We started out trying to get to the river from the road to a spot I found the other week, just below the dam. But every time we got close, we were either stopped my a field of stinging nettles, or posted land.

We gave up and went home quick ran home, to look for some more spots at the DNR site. We found one spot in the red river down the road a little ways in a town called Red River.

We pulled of the road and found a spot we could get to river easy. We both put on spinners. We both were rigged with salmon eggs under a "strike indicator."

After a while and no fish. We both put spinners on. I put a #4 bucktail panther martin, gold blade, yellow/red spot body. My dad with rainbow trout color. My 3rd cast with the spinner I nail a little 12" smallie who have quite the display or acrobatics, and fought like mad though lol!

My first decent (as in not 4 inches) smallie too!

We wade down stream a little ways and my dad catches a little rocks bass. I catch one shortly after and he catches another.

Down stream a little ways, we come to an AWESOME looking section of river full of downed trees and such. I make a perfect cast right between a log a rock and tree, I take a few cranks and WAM! I set the hook into a beautiful 16 incher. I pull it a little ways and it pulls some drag and almost get me tangled up in the tree, and get it out and back up a little so I don't loose it in the tree. I bring it over to my dad and he nets it for me!

We snap a few pics and watch it swim on down.

It may not have been to big, but WOW did it fight HARD. Better then any similar sized largemouth I caught, and even better then that hawg I caught yesterday!

I catch 2 more really, really small ones, and one around 13 inches. My dad still has nothing but a few rock bass. We start wadding back up stream and I catch another rock bass (which btw really look like mangrove snapper). My dad finally gets a smallie on a #6 silver balde, yellow/red spotted body panther martin. We're right close to car and I catch what seems to be the first trout of the day, and a pretty good one by the way it's fighting, but it's really to dark for either of us to tell for sure. I bring it close to my dad and he nets it for me. Turns out it was a little 20" pike, put a nice fight (but not as good as the 16" smallie). It flops out of my hand while I'm getting the hook out and bites the spinner off, and their it and the pike go lol! Not the worst way to end the day.

We come home and have some pike and catfish I filleted the day before for dinner.

Had a great day over all! Neither of us any trout, but I'll take smallies ANY day over them!

Here's that 16 incher!

06-13-11, 12:38 AM	#1
Bassboss BassFishin.Com Premier Elite Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Shawano, WI Posts: 7,761	Trout trip turns to Smallie trip (pic)! Me and my dad went out to the Red river roday planing on catching some trout for dinner. How ever it didn't quite work out that way! We started out trying to get to the river from the road to a spot I found the other week, just below the dam. But every time we got close, we were either stopped my a field of stinging nettles, or posted land. We gave up and went home quick ran home, to look for some more spots at the DNR site. We found one spot in the red river down the road a little ways in a town called Red River. We pulled of the road and found a spot we could get to river easy. We both put on spinners. We both were rigged with salmon eggs under a "strike indicator." After a while and no fish. We both put spinners on. I put a #4 bucktail panther martin, gold blade, yellow/red spot body. My dad with rainbow trout color. My 3rd cast with the spinner I nail a little 12" smallie who have quite the display or acrobatics, and fought like mad though lol! My first decent (as in not 4 inches) smallie too! We wade down stream a little ways and my dad catches a little rocks bass. I catch one shortly after and he catches another. Down stream a little ways, we come to an AWESOME looking section of river full of downed trees and such. I make a perfect cast right between a log a rock and tree, I take a few cranks and WAM! I set the hook into a beautiful 16 incher. I pull it a little ways and it pulls some drag and almost get me tangled up in the tree, and get it out and back up a little so I don't loose it in the tree. I bring it over to my dad and he nets it for me! We snap a few pics and watch it swim on down. It may not have been to big, but WOW did it fight HARD. Better then any similar sized largemouth I caught, and even better then that hawg I caught yesterday! I catch 2 more really, really small ones, and one around 13 inches. My dad still has nothing but a few rock bass. We start wadding back up stream and I catch another rock bass (which btw really look like mangrove snapper). My dad finally gets a smallie on a #6 silver balde, yellow/red spotted body panther martin. We're right close to car and I catch what seems to be the first trout of the day, and a pretty good one by the way it's fighting, but it's really to dark for either of us to tell for sure. I bring it close to my dad and he nets it for me. Turns out it was a little 20" pike, put a nice fight (but not as good as the 16" smallie). It flops out of my hand while I'm getting the hook out and bites the spinner off, and their it and the pike go lol! Not the worst way to end the day. We come home and have some pike and catfish I filleted the day before for dinner. Had a great day over all! Neither of us any trout, but I'll take smallies ANY day over them! Here's that 16 incher! __________________ If you can't fix it with heavy squats or fish oil, you're probably going to die. Last edited by Bassboss; 06-13-11 at 12:10 PM.

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