Trout Fishing Report

The weather has been perfect on the Little Red river. The water has been running at normal levels which has made the trout fishing a blast. Wax worms and a pinch float have been my bait of choice this month. The rainbows are very active right now the first few hours in the morning. The brown spawn is over and the are migrating back down the river. Frozen Craw fish tails are producing nice sized browns on the sand bars. The first 2 hours after day light.

The weather has not stopped the browns from moving to the shoals. All the rain has help to be able to follow them up the river. The brown bite is on the females that I have been catching still have hard egg sacks. This is good news that means they will stay on the shoals till they get ready to spawn.

The water is perfect and the browns are starting to move up river. The spawn should kick off in a week or so. We have been picking up some nice fish that have started staging at the foot of the bigger shoals. The new rainbow pic on the web site was 17lb and 31" long. It was the biggest rainbow caught in the Little Red in many years.

Summer has come and gone now is the time to get the big browns on there way to the spawn. This month will be the best time fish the bottom of all the shoals looking for the browns on the move. Big stick and live bait patterns will produces nice browns. The browns will be feeding heavy the first two hours after day light. 

The moss is perfect for late morning and early afternoon fishing. You will want to fish the down river side of the moss beds with live bait or small floating stick baits and work them with a over the very end of the bed. This has me putting 50 plus rainbows to the boat on a half day morning guide trip. Purple power bait tip with wax worms and 24" leader is also producing good number right now.