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Fished that spot yesterday . That area was really silty. Lots of fishermen. Good luck.
Check out Solarez. They have a kit which includes 3 types of resins and a high-quality light for around $62. Their resins are the best and the light is excellent. Unfortunately, the kit does not include their “bone dry” resin which is great. Believe me, I have tried several resins and solarez is the best I found.
My son and I will be there.
I didn’t think about stripers chasing my trout. That is a possibility since I was fishing Barking Dog Pool and the bottom of the run around S-Turn when this happened. We know that there are stripers in there. It is pretty exciting to hook one of these trout when they take off like a bullet. It always seems like it’s when I am using squirmies.
I can’t take credit for the tube idea (saw it on YouTube). I did come up with the idea of leaving a small tag on the tube to tie it down. It is important to make your cuts blunt. If cut at an angle it will slice the squirmy in half. That is why I take a butane lighter to the ends of the tube in order to round off the sharp edges. I then push a bodkin through the tube to make sure the opening is sufficient to feed the worm through the tube. I forgot to mention you have to stretch the worm to feed it through. The trick is to not put too much pressure on the threader or it will slice the worm.
Here is another option on the squirmy. Tie a small piece of tubing (found at hobby store) to the hook. When cutting the tube, leave a small tag on the tube to give yourself an attachment point. Stretch and thread the squirmy through the tube with a threader. Amazingly the squirmy will stay in place because it has a larger diameter than the tube. I found that the plastic was cutting the squirmy material, so I take a butane lighter to slightly melt the end to round it off. I use a size 14 scud hook. If the squirmy does come out (does not happen often) you can carry extra squirmy material and a threader for an on stream repair. The tubing comes in clear, red, green and blue in one package. I haven’t used the blue but it would blend ok with purple squirmies.
One thing I have noticed is a lot of times when you hook up, the trout makes a really fast and aggressive run. My guess is that it is competing with other fish. It grabs the worm and then runs. Last week I had one that circled me twice before breaking off. I have been using 5x tippet but think I will go heavier to keep from breaking off.
I bought a pair of Korkers 3 years ago and they have worked out great for me. I wore out one set of felt soles on the Guad. I thought the felt sole was a little thin, but no problem since they are so easy to replace. The replacement set has studs and seem to be wearing better. Used them in New Mexico on the San Juan, which can be really slippery. No problem. I carried the spare rubber soles with me in case we decided to hire a drift boat. You also can’t beat the cable/lace tightening system. Makes them really easy to put on and take off.
And yes they were in red kayaks.
That was them. They took off when they saw me on my phone. I did get a picture of them that I shared with the game wardens. I don’t know if they got caught.
