Well I got spring fever and headed to Jordanelle this morning for some bass, the temps was in town 34 at 6:45 and 12 at the lake with about a 5 to 10 M P H wind....
Found the fish in 35 to 60' of water and with the wind it was hard to fell the bite boated 7 bass and 7 trout 2 was browns they came out of 60' of water missed a lot of bites headed home at 12:30 air temps was only 35...
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Think Costa Rica snook.
Then click your heels three times... (it worked for El Salto, didn't it?)
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No just VISA.....[cool]
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The rock cliff arm has some ice out to the buoys...
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Only 5 more months 'till ice-off....winter sucks !!!!
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Is it hard on the bass to pull them up from 60' depth? I have seen what it does to perch and it isn't pretty.
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Bite your
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Only if you don't know what you are doing....
And who is pulling bass out of 60' of water????
Have you????
Do you fish for bass at Jordanelle this time of year????
I am looking for fishing reports from people who have caught bass in the winter, where? how? and how deep? And what was the water temps???Not what ifs and they said or should be's....
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Easy there tiger....
In your post you wrote.....
[size 1]"Found the fish in 35 to 60' of water and with the wind it was hard to fell the bite boated 7 bass and 7 trout 2 was browns [black][size 5]they came out of 60' of water[/size][/black] missed a lot of bites headed home at 12:30 air temps was only 35... "[/size]
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[black]I interpreted that to mean exactly what it says...[/black]
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[black]I don't fish for bass in the cold months and am trying to learn something about them. Are they able to handle the pressure change involved with being pulled from that depth?[/black]
thanks...
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This year I hope the main lake stays open...
I have been fishing the Nell in winter for three years now and a lot of what others have said or put in print does not add up, like you can't catch bass in winter and how slow there are and so on...
Any one else fish for bass in winter around here???
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Since I'm still relatively new to this, I'm
. Are you sayin that there's a chance the main lake stays ice free? As in boatable?
This would be good news.
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I'm not trying to give you a bad time what I said was what you wrote, 7 trout and 2 browns they cane out of 60' of water (browns) but I have got bass out of deep water in the past...
The deepest I got the bass was 40' and one at 20' to 25'...
Not all bass react the same when caught in deep water and if you bring them up and release them quick they swim strait back down, others you have to fizz or let the air out (but in the right way as not to hurt the bass)...
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How do you fizz?
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Yes it has stayed ice free and you launch on the small ramp on the south facing side they remove the snow + it melts...
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Fizz well its hard to explain but I'll try...
First each fish has the air bladder in a little different place to fizz them, bass if you have ever cleaned one and took the time you would see how the lateral line and back bone is, OK you need a needle (like you get shots with) about two to three inches in back of the gills and under the lateral line about one inch you stick the needle going under a scale and going forward hold the fish under water and watch for bubbles when they stop pull the needle let the fish go and see if it swims right if not repeat step one...
Bring some fish up from water 40 to 80 feet and if fizzed right will not hurt them ...
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Thx for the detailed description. Nice job of explaining it. The one question I would have, which may be easy to determine, is how would you know if the bass needed fizzing? Since the air bladder would be bloated , I’m assuming the fish has a bloated look. I’m trying to distinguish between these fish, and the ones you mention in a previous reply where you just released them and they swam straight back down. Maybe if you release the fish and it floats, you know there’s a problem?[/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]This also begs another question: do trout have air bladders? I would assume yes, but then again, I’ve never read about fizzing trout.[/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Thx for your time, particularly since I may not have the skill to catch a winter bass anyways…[/size][/font]
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Trout burp like you can and let out the air that way like lake trout dose when it get near the top....
And yes the bass will float and are not be able to go back down...
If in a tournament they will be on top the water in the livewell and can live for hours on top the water but the longer you take to fizz them the less chance they have to live....
The most common bass that needs to be fizzed is the spotted bass they stay deeper year round then all other bass....
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Here's hopin for a couple of mild January weekend days so I can test this out.
Thx. Interesting stuff.
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Research has shown that fizzing does not improve survival. Blood chemistry changes from being brought up from deep water results in high mortality in fish brought up from deep water with the exception of trout which can burp up the gases and adapt better to the depth change. Bass, perch, and the like will mostly like die even after swimming away for a short while.
I don't want to burp your bubble but I have seen studies that bass have a 94 to 96% survival rate...
From the Cal. DWR and from the BASSMASTERS and the FLW...
When done the right way....
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