etaggart
07-18-2010, 08:13 AM
Past few weeks have been tough fishing for me on the fly. Been cruising west end of the lake down deep and only gotten a very few fish. Deep trollers did better, but the east-side of the point at the red house near the bouy line has been jumping. There's a great spot where I've seen a couple of guys pull 10 fish in a few hours using PB floating up from the bottom. I think they know the exact spot to hit, cause others in the same are haven't been getting nearly as much action.
Back to Saturday. On the water just before 6 near the Observatory looking for bass. Last year by nephew and I had a killer day in about these same conditions similar time of year. 6am-10am barely a nibble - tried roboworms w/ sliding lead, roboworms fly-lined, some other miscellaneous plastics, and a popper. I got some small nibbles on the roboworm, but I think it was croppy and the plastic was too big for them.
I tied on an old panther-martin and immediately landed a croppy, so I thought - forget the bass, might as well spend an hour picking-off croppy and maybe I'll get a small bass in the process.
Tied on a small plastic croppy jig and tossed a few. Bang, bang, bang, bang. Cruising around the edges of the weedbeds and rocks I landed well over a dozen croppy. All were small, but two were good sized for croppy. Biggest was 10.5" next was 9.5" (that's the one pictured below on the stripping basket. Most were 4 ounce dinks, but still made me work hard to feel the bite and land them gently. Probably would have done just as well with a fly - I'll cruise the edges of weedbeds with a fly when trout aren't biting and I want to catch something.
Not the greatest, but at least it's something. See some pix below.
I've been seeing a lot more trout being caught, but I haven't yet dialed it in.
May try to sneak-up to Jenks lake mid-week to see what I can do.
Cheers!
ET
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Back to Saturday. On the water just before 6 near the Observatory looking for bass. Last year by nephew and I had a killer day in about these same conditions similar time of year. 6am-10am barely a nibble - tried roboworms w/ sliding lead, roboworms fly-lined, some other miscellaneous plastics, and a popper. I got some small nibbles on the roboworm, but I think it was croppy and the plastic was too big for them.
I tied on an old panther-martin and immediately landed a croppy, so I thought - forget the bass, might as well spend an hour picking-off croppy and maybe I'll get a small bass in the process.
Tied on a small plastic croppy jig and tossed a few. Bang, bang, bang, bang. Cruising around the edges of the weedbeds and rocks I landed well over a dozen croppy. All were small, but two were good sized for croppy. Biggest was 10.5" next was 9.5" (that's the one pictured below on the stripping basket. Most were 4 ounce dinks, but still made me work hard to feel the bite and land them gently. Probably would have done just as well with a fly - I'll cruise the edges of weedbeds with a fly when trout aren't biting and I want to catch something.
Not the greatest, but at least it's something. See some pix below.
I've been seeing a lot more trout being caught, but I haven't yet dialed it in.
May try to sneak-up to Jenks lake mid-week to see what I can do.
Cheers!
ET
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