Trying to learn Caney/tactics a bit better
For you guys who have your "finger on the pulse" of the Caney, a riddle:
Memorial Day weekend, I fished the Caney two days about 15 miles downstream of the dam. 1 day, hooked a total of 15 rainbows 10-12" range. Next day, 5 bows and a nearly two foot sauger. Both days used 1/8 spinners in various colors, 4# fluorocarbon line. Both days fished during no generation and stopped when the generators came on, reached my area, and the water started rising.
Been back to same spot twice since then. Weather has been about the same, same techniques. Only difference I could discern is that the water was noticeably higher when I started out, and was falling during the time I fished, until it started rising with the generators again. Both subsequent trips, managed to land a grand total of 1 bow each time.
I'm trying to figure out what the difference was. Was it water level?, moon location? Or, just the old sometimes you're the windshield and sometimes you're the bug? Any thoughts?
Second question: I see enough posts to know that trout magnets are very popular with folks on the board. I'm a bit of a "die hard" spin fisherman. Many years ago, fly fished, and actually got fairly adept with it. But, I'm one of the wierdos who took up spinning after the fly, rather than vice versa. I just find something extremely enjoyable about it and will throw spinners even when I know that they are probably not the most effective technique, at that time under the circumstances. But, all of that to say, I have tried the TMs, both on the Caney and the Little Red in AR. I have yet to catch a trout on a TM (however, I tear crappie up with the crappie magnets). Am I missing something?
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