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Can anyone give me some tips for begginers at Flaming Gorge? I am Spending a few days over there with 14-16yr old scouts that have little experience fishing in large bodies of water. We will have some boats (ski boats) but mostly fishing from shore. What types of tackle should we be prepared with? I would like to hook up with some of those smallies as well but it doesn't matter wwhat type of fish as long as they have a great time and catch something. any advice will be appreciated. Chicken.
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Use the same as you would any place to start with if trout powerbate or your best lures.
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2"-3" TUBE JIGS WITH 1/8 OZ HEADS. Anything in brown or green shades. Take a lot of these as you will lose a bunch to the rocky structure. Smallmouth just can't leave these alone when you twitch or slow swim them through a good holding area. You'll find bass just about anywhere that there is good hiding places in the rocks. Just remember that their primary food source is crawdads and they don't let very many crawl/swim by without munching them.
Mornings and evenings will be great for rainbows in any cove (especially those with an inlet stream) Worm and a bobber baby, worm and a bobber. Also the rainbow will slam jake's spin-a-lures in a variety of colors trolled behind the boat at various speeds. If you can't get the boat slowed down enough just make tight "S" turns and you'll get hit on the "inside" rod as the lure slows down.
As for 'Kokes and 'Macks.....They're not too hard to catch but do require some more specialized gear. About your only option is jigging in deep water with white or dark green jigs and heavy jigheads tipped with mionnow or sucker for the macks. Kokes can be caught by agressively jigged flashy brite jigging spoons. The hard part will be finding a school that will stay put long enough to jig for them. The most succesfull 'koke catchers are dragging steel or leaded line or running downriggers around 40' to 70' deep. Shasta brand tackle seems to be the "hot" stuff this year. Kokenuts, cripplelures, and slingblades.
Good Luck, and PLEASE don't let any boyscouts get lost.[crazy]
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When we went there with our scouts the smallmouth bass would hit anything shiney. You could catch one on every cast. The only problem is that most were smaller than 5 inches long. I caught a couple that were smaller than the lure I was using. While fishing from the shore, we did end up catching 2 very nice rainbow trout. The rockier the area, the more fish there seemed to be.
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ive had success from shore using chunks of sucker meat and casting really far off a good drop off.(putting it right on the bottom) i have only caught small lakers up to a couple of pounds. if you can find a spot that has a bunch it can be pretty quick. ive never tried this time of year, but im sure it would work if you find the right spot.
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Thanks for all the great information. I picked up some tackle and hope to put some of these kids on some fish. Thanks, Chicken.
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