Umpqua Small Mouth [Archive]

Best Fishes

08-08-2005, 01:01 PM

I am fishing later this week near Yellow Creek for small mouth. Any recent reports with good ideas on what to use and the water conditions?

Best Fishes

6wapiti6

08-08-2005, 01:29 PM

We fished up above there last week and did best with Senko's "wacky " style. If we saw a big fish we'd switch out to a large rubber crawdad and get it down quick and just twitch it. Hooked about 50% of the bigger fish we saw that way. Best was 19 1/4". Caught too many to count!

mwade16

08-08-2005, 01:53 PM

2" white power grub, 1/8" or 1/16" oz. jighead, swim by rocks, ledges + seams, fish on! ALL DAY!

fishlipper

08-08-2005, 02:32 PM

Everything works, but some things work better than others. I hammered them on brown tubes, and 4 inch worms. I even got some good ones on a pink steelhead worm, just to prove that color does not seem to matter much. I caught most of my big fish on black and brown jigs.

boblag

08-09-2005, 07:34 AM

I was there on Sunday and nailed 'em with a 4" Senko in green pumpkin. Toward dusk they preferred a brownish 1/8 Rooster Tail. Later, when the bugs were on the water, I used a Heddon Tiny Torpedo in black and got a few good ones.
I don't know how the water usually is, but you could seen down to the bottom in about 10 feet. I took my raft out above the boat ramp at Umpqua, and could have easily avoided scraping any rocks.

MikeN

08-09-2005, 10:53 AM

We used 1/8 ounce jigheads with a salt/pepper grub that looked like small shad. We were catching fish on almost every cast. :smash:

BuKuBass

08-09-2005, 02:47 PM

"I even got some good ones on a pink steelhead worm, just to prove that color does not seem to matter much."

Shhh about pink worms. They don't work; un-uhh, no way, no how. Get in touch with your feminine side and DS Strike King's 3X floating worms. Another option is to wacky 'em with no weight on the surface. They'll fold back when you twitch them and then the ends will wiggle forward; explosive strikes!

fishlipper

08-09-2005, 03:01 PM

I was fishing Outlaw 4" steelhead worms in pink. I never thought about rigging them wacky, but believe me I will try. I have rigged senkos wacky on the umpqua and that works awesome, but I will try the pink worm that way some time. As long as we are keeping this quiet :wink: orange sherbert is another really good color too!!!!!!!!