June 2022 Montauk State Park Family Trip

 

Our annual trip out to Montauk State Park in Salem, Missouri was a nice little getaway.  We fished on Friday afternoon, Saturday morning, and Sunday morning.  All three excursions into the Current River were successful with catching trout.  We like to stay with some close friends that have a camper.  We took the grandparents with us this time and they stayed at Reed's Cabins which is just a little bit further away from the action.  Most folks will stay at the lodge on premise or in the actual campsites (loops 1-4).

As you can see in this picture we were very successful catching trout during the entire weekend.  We caught fish every day.  We caught our trout mainly on hair jigs this time.  They were keyed in on white, black, and orange colors for the most part.  We did not catch as many on the rooster tails this time, but one of our family friends absolutely destroyed the trout on a white rooster tail.  Watching him work his magic was quite fun because there is absolutely a method to where you should throw the rooster tail, and also how to let it float and retrieve based on the flow of the river and where you are positioned in the river.

What was really fun for me was the last day's fishing session (Sunday morning).  Saturday had been super hot during the day.  Coming out of the camper on Sunday morning it was cool but muggy.  You could feel the cool air blowing over the water.  In the pic above, the jerkbait you see there in a crawdad color was absolutely killing the trout.  I caught around 7 total rainbows on that jerkbait in almost the same area of the river.  They were keyed in on it for whatever reason.  That was one of the first times I have ever caught that many rainbows on a jerkbait.  Normally we catch alot of browns on jerkbaits, but that day the rainbows were reacting to it.

We were able to prepare a nice feast on Saturday night.  Here are just a few photos of one way we like to grill our trout.  We do bacon wrapped trout with lemon and pepper.  We grilled them straight from the firewood embers.  The other way we like to eat trout is fried.  We use Andy's Fish Breading Red, which is so tasty for fried fish.

So, another family trip to Montauk is in the books.  Great memories.  Stay Committed, Stay Driven.