What started out as a family flotilla attacking Starvation Reservoir turned into a Daddy Daughter affair since my son wasn't feeling to well once we got to the reservoir. This of course quickly turned into a slime. We launched to perfect conditions at 7 am in bunny gulch. Water temps a nice 67. The water levels are up and lots of flooded brush. Found all the fishies up close to shore. I quickly had a couple of perch on line ranging from dinks to 9 inchers plus. My daughter went out with two poles and succeded in turning three into knots right away. While I was untying and rerigging one of her rods she proceeded to tie up my drop shot rig. So finally after rerigging we headed out for more fish. While floating with the breeze and motoring back my daughter hooked into a nice smallmouth bass. Her first. Shortly thereafter she cuaght a nice Yellow perch as well. Both on a chartreuse with silver flake jig. I was able to boat a small wallette at 9 inches. We were both on our way to slime city. She soon got bored after a three hour jaunt in the bay. I dropped her off on shore to play for a while and headed back out. Since I got tired of messing with the perch I headed across the bay to see what I could find. Found a nice area of flooded trees and started to throw a jig. WHAM! (I love that word). Hooked into something rather large. Got it to the toon and thought I had a chub. Upon further inspection a nice smallmouth probably around 12 inches. It was camera shy and decided to take off with my mangled hook just before I was able to get my camera out. After messing with the smallies a while longer decided to head back to the car when I saw and heard the thunder heads in the distance. Started to drag a woolly bugger behind me and had a hit. Missed the hook up and continued when another hit. This time I got the hook up, turned out to a be a nice 15 inch rainbow trout. After a nice photo shoot the rainbow was invited home to dinner with mamatrout. Had one more really good hit and miss before I got back just as the forecasted wind and storm picked up. Good time to hit the shore and got packed up just in time as a gully washer hit the lake. All in all a great day spent at Starvation. Hope to get back soon.

Also this was a great trip to see how I could haul the minnows tubes and mamatrouts FC4 on the toon trailer. All worked out well.

Thats sounds like a freakin fun trip man the thing I like about it is how many different fish you caught so how do you fish your jigs do you cast and retrieve or vertical jig and same with the drop shot how are you fishing that and do you just casting it to the shore gonna be going there soon so really would like new and goods ways to catch all types of species

Thanks for the story you really made it fun to read keep posting your trips I love seeing people get out and rip some lip and hearing the stories

With my drop shot I am usually just dropping it straight down vertically while I cast the other jig out and away.  Then slowly reel it back in.  I will also at times vertical jig that as well.  I had also put a perch colored crank on and had several follows.  I even had a perch impale itself on the hooks.  Must have known it was me and just gave up knowing that it had no chance.  Alot of times I would cast the jig and let it sink then slowly bounce it off the bottom as I retrieved it.  This will also trigger strikes.  It is also nice to tip the drop shot jigs with something nice for the fishies to taste such as a pice of night crawler or piece of perch meat.  Works great!  Hope this helps!!!

Yes this Helps alot I think I will try the same thing next time I go And one more ? what kind of jig are you casting is it like a tube or worm or what sorry for asking for all your secrets just trying to learn all I can cause going fishing and catching nothing is pretty boring. thanks again

I did not even think of grubs thats not to smart of me cause they are one of the best walleye lures around and you were catching small mouth on them I am for sure going to use this info on my nest starvtrip maybe nest week just talking about it makes me want to go so bad Thank you so much for you fishing info really sounds like you know your stuff especially with the 11 plus years of doing it I really appreciate It

Yes the grubs are a great  bait.  I have caught all species on them year round.

I have added some photos from out trip last week to my photo album.

glad to here some folks are getting out. nice pics at.

Brian