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Post by onlyfly on May 21, 2014 20:18:21 GMT -6
Fished the Spillway today from my float tube. Manged 2 cats both 32" and had one get off but it was probably around 32" as well, 2 small sauger and a nice 14" goldeye. Love the feel of catching cats in the tube especially when they run deep right under your boat, I was also so starting to get dizzy with the first cat it must of spun me around 8 times. Don't know how these guys do it. Here's some photos.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2014 12:14:27 GMT -6
Those are some nice fish.
How does it work fishing with the float tube? Do you drift downstream and hike back up? Or can you control it and stay in one area pretty good?
I've always thought of those as still water vessels.
Thanks, Doyle
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Post by sedgehammer on May 22, 2014 13:08:43 GMT -6
There is no flow in the spillway right now, just a backwater from the Red River.
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Post by brucerap on May 23, 2014 8:24:45 GMT -6
Had a good evening yesterday. Surprisingly few people for such nice weather. Looks like the carp are really starting to stack up in there. They were porpoising all over the place. Caught a couple in the 24-27" range, along with a couple good cats and a nice 16" white bass. this was the hot fly:
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Post by onlyfly on May 24, 2014 18:40:36 GMT -6
If you don't mind sharing, do you fish that fly with a hand twist retrieve like would for trout in stillwater or the regular strip retrieve? I've heard nymphs are very effective on the red at times, I've just never gotten around to trying them, In the spillway that is.
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Post by brucerap on May 24, 2014 22:48:02 GMT -6
I usually use a strip retrieve. I'll change up the length and speed until I find something that works. I've found most of the time a short, twitching retrieve works pretty well.
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Post by flyfisheranonymous on May 25, 2014 12:17:57 GMT -6
Saw Rob out there Friday and he caught a couple. I also had a Drum and a couple of Whities so I decided to try the main river channel and had better success. Landed a 29 inch waleye and a 29 1/4 inch drum along with various other fish. Had 4 Cats on and lost every one of them Bummer, but still had a great day. All fish caught on a DDH
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Post by onlyfly on May 27, 2014 19:53:30 GMT -6
That walleye and that drum must have been pretty fun. Just got from the spillway again, and managed a 36 fish total. 2 being MA's, doubt I can submit them though as I don't have any photos. Anyway one was a 16.5'' white bass and a 36'' channel cat. The catfish made multiple runs into the backing and took over 20 minutes to land. Also fished a two fly rig nymph 3' from main line then a streamer 5' from the nymph and managed to get a goldeye and a cat at the same time. The total for fish is one 10'' pike, 3 cats 30-36'', one goldeye 13'', one white bass 16.5'', and 30 drum smallest being 10'' with the largest being 20''. The fly was a black/red DDH with some extra spice added via a red flashabou tail.
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Post by flyfisheranonymous on May 27, 2014 21:42:38 GMT -6
You should try the main river channel tons of Cats sitting in there. Loads of fun.
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Post by sedgehammer on May 27, 2014 22:34:36 GMT -6
good stuff onlyfly. Were the drum starting to take a faster retrieve. Last week they wanted it soooo slow.
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Post by onlyfly on May 28, 2014 7:03:44 GMT -6
Yes the drum are taking a fast retrieve. They actually almost had no interest what so ever in a slow retrieve. I was making a fairly quick 5'' strip with a pause length given by how much time it took for you to ready for the next strip. And as for the main river I mainly start fishing that when it gets shallower and you can wade further out. I was also targeting carp in the spillway.
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Post by sedgehammer on May 28, 2014 15:28:44 GMT -6
you still fishing out of the tube?
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Post by onlyfly on May 28, 2014 16:25:50 GMT -6
Yep. Makes it a lot easier to back cast and access some of the better spots.
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Post by brucerap on May 29, 2014 19:36:40 GMT -6
Went out a couple evenings this week. The drum are in there big time. Easily landing 8-12 in an evening along with a few cats and the odd carp. Fishing nymph droppers off something bigger (clousers, deceivers etc). Most hits on the nymph, but a pretty good number on the leading fly too. The cats were all caught on the nymphs. Still a few white bass around too. My bro and I caught probably 30+ fish between us last night.
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Post by nelepl on May 30, 2014 0:28:51 GMT -6
Had a blast this morning. I tried targeting carp for the first hour since they were biting yesterday. I guess because the weather was different they were not interested in anything I tried. I caught two yesterday on a scud type fly and I lost two. Since carp wasn't interested I changed my rod and decided to give cats a try. First just drums started biting than later on they disappeared and cats moved in the same place. At the end I got 24 drums. Biggest was 22inch, 13 cats 36 34 33 x2 and smaller ones I didn't measure and when I was packing my gear I had a fly dropped in front of my feet in shallows and 31 inch pike grabbed it. I got there around 7 am teied carp for an hour and finnished at 10:45. So for me this is my personal record considering short amount of time I fished. Interesting thing is that all 38 fish were caught on the same beadhead olive wooly bugger with orange purple tail. Fish seamed to like it so I didn't even try anything else. Drums would bite on fast retrieve and cats liked to let fly sink for a bit and usually they would bite before I would start retrieving. Got some crappy pictures that I might post later.
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Post by brucerap on May 30, 2014 5:23:48 GMT -6
Great morning! Sounds like a blast. To be honest, I think the fish are so stacked up in there right now, anything you throw at them will work. Having said that, I think I'll tie up some olive/purple wb's.
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