Darter family for walleye

[Red Childress]

I have never tried to seine them. I figured since they were so trap shy that seining them would be tough. Can you get them alone or is it a 2-man operation??

Speaking of sculpins, when I was in college we used to hit Big Pine, Little Pine, Fishing creek (in the artificial only section), Spring Creek, Slate Run, etc. using a 1-inch tube jig in motor oil color. When the water was low and clear and very tough fishing, we used to run 4lb. test and work the tube jig very erratically with the current to imitate a sculpin........man, did we get great action. For every trout we caught, we lost or rolled 5-8 fish that just did not get hooked well. It was a great way to get action during mid-day in low water. We pulled a very small treble inside the tube to make it weedless/mossless which probably inhibited us from getting the hooks imbedded well. If we exposed the hooks on the bottom of the tube, we would get "mossed" every cast.

It was amazing to see the numbers of fish scooted under the rocks in the fast water when the tube came through......everything happened so quickly that many times you would not even see the fish hit the tube. We never hit any BIG trout doing this but plenty of 10-15 inch wild browns and brookies.