Below chick dam Friday Jan 20

[polo-dog]

RE: Below chick dam Friday Jan 20 (pics added)

Great brown fish guys. I need to learn more about fishing for those brownies. Thanks for sharing the pics with us. It's great to know that there are good numbers of smallies in the river. To fish in the current do you downsize to 4lb test? It seems like unless I downsize I can't keep contact for all of the bow in the line. Fishing in the current is new to me and I need to get better at it.

 

[whenwegoin]

I use 6 lb mono flourescent Stren either in the clear blue or yellow color depending on the color of the water. One must be a line watcher for winter smallies in current especially when there is wind. The yellow stren is much easier to see.

I believe whywecatchsomany is experimenting with the triple fish line.

 

[whywecatchsomany]

Yea my father bought a spool for me at Christmas and thought I would try it out. My eyes are not what they used to be and as mentioned if you can't see that line you are in trouble. The Triple Fish is supposed to be really good line and my experience with it has been good. It seems to hold up well, also seems to be a litte thinner in diameter in the 6lb than my ususal Stren. What I have been using is their CAMO-ESCENT which is a 4 color line (strips of red,light yellow, green, florescent. The jury is still out though and the Stren 6 lb which is .009 is hard to beat.

 

[Clampf n Stern]

So if you're eyes aren't as good as they once were, then maybe my trailer backin' skills aren't as bad as you think. I thought I did pretty good for my first time.

I'm goin' by myself today and tomorrow, or I'll pay for line. Speaking of line, I use 6 lb. clear/blue Stren...or as I call it, Stern. It's good for clampf'in, when nothin' else is bitin'. There ain't nothin' like haulin' in a big'ol clampf n stern on a winter's day.

whywecatchsomany, I was talking to whenwegoin this morning. I was told by a certain individual at church last night that there was another 5.5 pounder caught on Sunday by a certain prominent SD figure that we know of.