Stopped out at the river near Heirman at around 9:30AM and shared the area with around 10 or so other anglers up and down river. After heading down the main trail and the river access trail for a second found a spot that seemed to have some activity with several fish rolling within the first 20 minutes and some decent (seemingly) decent water to fish. Ended up coming out empty handed with no hits or strikes or landed fishies.

Threw out a couple types of spinners and homemade jigs for most of the first hour (lower water conditions but no snags the entire day) and then moved onto doing some float fishing with about a 36" leader and well under about an oz of weight throughout the line to keep the rig inline with the float.

Several guys trolling up and down but no one really caught much that I could see. Saw more than a dozen fish rolling the few hours I was out there and a 15"-18" rainbow swim on right near me in the clear water as I was changing out leaders.

I Didn't catch any fish and it seems slow fishing right now for most, next big rain should help the productivity I hope.

riverhunter

9/15/2014 3:22:00 PM

If you are fishing a float, you don't need any leader longer than 2ft at the most extreme. Makes it harder to get the float to go up and down if you are getting bites. Also remember to use fluorocarbon for leader when float fishing. The fish has plenty of time to investigate your bait and if you use fluoro the leader will be virtually invisible

jrodell27

9/15/2014 3:40:00 PM

Thanks for the tip! One thing I was reading with float drifting was it was important to get the offering to the bottom. I was using fluorocarbon leader but may have been a bit too long as you mentioned. I'm going to try again this upcomming weekend at another place I'm hoping to research and test out nearby. Will defintely employ a 2' leader and work the bobber stopper/beads on the mainline for adjusting depth further.

riverhunter

9/15/2014 3:47:00 PM

Yea you want it close to a foot or two off the bottom. Play with the floats depth until you see the float straight up, you will know you are fishing correctly if it is. If it's sideways its to deep, too much weight or to little. Weight is determined by current. You want it to drift at the speed of the river, adjust your weight with that in mind

N E 1 FISSION

9/15/2014 3:52:00 PM

Thanks for the tips gemtlemen, will eventually give it a shot out there,..

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