re: softshell crawfish

quote:

---

BIG Texan

---

I lived in Mt. Home for five years (worked for Baxter).

We would put in the White just above Gaston's and float to Cotter. We would take raw crawfish tails, peel them, bait our hooks with the meat and float them down river ahead of us in a Styrofoam cup. When the cup would go over a hole we'd give the line a twitch and dump the tail into the water. It would sink and hopefully attract the attention of a big brown or maybe a rainbow. Caught a 14 pound brown that way at blue hole. Record on the white is 40 pounds four ounces I think. One that big doesn't even look all that much like a trout. The big ones hardly ever leave the deep holes and are very difficult to catch. You can float over the holes and sometimes see then suspended deep in the river.

Good memories.


Gastons - the place to start your quest for a big big trout

If your pilot skills include grass strip landing, you can land at Gaston's and taxi right up to the check in desk at the resort. Their tackle shop will rent or sell you all the gear you need to fly fish or use a rod and reel. Their guides will put you right on the fish if that is what it takes for you to catch one. The guides run the boats and all you do is sit in a canvas director's chair and cast. I have seen the guides make the cast, hand the rod to the clown and then say, " NOt Yet Not Yet, NOW!" The fisher man would set the hook and "catch the fish". Then a day later, you get back into your plane and fly back out.

For the fishing skill challenged - the sporting life doesn't get a whole lot better.