ONCE AGAIN WALLEYE AND A FEW TROUT

Last Friday me and Dad tried our luck with the Walleye. This trip there was no moon and the conditions seemed somewhat more favorable for walleye. We had a slight ripple of wind and it was overcast, just an all around beautiful night to be on Dale Hollow. We started a little later than last time, we left the dock at straight up midnight. Dad had been fishing throughout the week and knew that the bite usually never started before at least midnight. Again we were using the husky jerk, reeling it slow in shallow water.

I caught two keepers and dad hauled in four. At least four of the fish were 3lbs or better. We also each caught a smallmouth, both in the slot.

My plan was to fish till 2 or 3 am, take a quick nap on dad's houseboat then join Bird at the river for some trout fishing. Around 2am I realized that if I layed down I probably would have a hard time getting up so we just kept on fishing.

At 5am I headed to Headricks for a sausage biscuit and a hogleg of caffiene. I was wading the Obey by 5:15am. Bird joined me soon after 6am. I threw the fly of the moment, zebra midge size 16, for quite a while with no luck. Everybody but me seems to be slaying the trout. I think I need to go to flyfishing school or something.

Around 9am I figured I better head home and get some much needed rest. At this point I had zero hits. Bird had already caught two which didn't make me feel any better. I theorized that maybe my strike indicator was too big and it was spooking the fish. I took it off and went to a dry fly as my strike indicator, dropping my zebra midge off the hook. At the last chute before leaving I caught two small stocked rainbows back to back.

That made my day.

WALLEYE

When my buddy Bird started this blog, I begged him not to call it Obey river trout fishing report. My argument was that would pigeonhole the blog into one species and one river. To his defense, that was his intentions. He loves to trout fish and he loves the Obey. I can’t blame him on either point.

We hit the Obey for some trout fishing two weeks ago, I know Bird caught a couple, I was skunked. I am guessing he went this past weekend, I however went Walleye fishing at the lake. Dale Hollow lake to be specific.

Dad and me headed out from Cedar Hill around 11pm. The Walleye fishing has been tremendous the past few weeks. Dad has been slaying them. Friday night was underwhelming. There was a full moon. Dad says that the fishing slows down five days before and after the full moon. We fished till about 3am and caught two that were barely keepers. We were using the Husky jerk. I was using a clown color which seemed to be working better than the Tennessee shad pattern Dad had tied on.

The party boats were out in full effect. It made for a lot of noise on the water. It will be that way till after Labor Day. We plan on going again real soon.