12-29-2008, 11:45 PM
I fished Causey today from 9 am to 2 pm. It was my first time fishing it and it was quite beautiful and different. Very deep and narrow. There were actually more people than I would have expected, and it seems they had all heard about Brody's monster brown.
Most Causey catch reports tell of alot of little dink fish, and I found that to be the case today. I picked an area not far from the dam and drilled holes in depth ranges from 40 to 12 feet. The sonar showed most of them in the 20 to 25 foot range, hugging the bottom. I dropped in with the glow ratsos tipped with mealworm pieces and quickly caught my first ever splake, followed by some more splake and tiger trout. Two tigers were a half decent 12 inches, and those were the biggest fish of the day. The strikes were very delicate and without a spring bobber or feeling the line with my fingers while jigging I would not have noticed them.
For about an hour they were biting pretty good, then they shut down completely. Nobody was doing well after that, including a group of seasoned ice veterans not far from me, fishing with their vexilars. It stayed dead for hours. I moved from hole to hole at varying depths, and at 1:30 decided to start packing up. I decided to make one last attempt at one of my holes, and I'm glad I did. That's when I ended up getting into a pocket of trout at a depth of 40 feet, and caught 5 more dink splakes and tigers. Still fun though. All in all I ended up catching at least 10 fish.
I packed up at a little after 2 pm, and ran into Scotty, a member on the board here. It wasn't the best day for him either, and stepping off the ice to hike up the dam he went in up to his knee. Good thing he was leaving! Anyway, it was good to see another member and he seemed like a real nice guy. We chatted for a bit about different places we want to fish.
The roads were fine, but I got big time stuck parking on the road going over the dam in the morning. Weather was perfect, it was another "no gloves" day. The ice was in great condition, several inches thick, with a little slush but nothing bad. You do need to be careful around those edges!
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Most Causey catch reports tell of alot of little dink fish, and I found that to be the case today. I picked an area not far from the dam and drilled holes in depth ranges from 40 to 12 feet. The sonar showed most of them in the 20 to 25 foot range, hugging the bottom. I dropped in with the glow ratsos tipped with mealworm pieces and quickly caught my first ever splake, followed by some more splake and tiger trout. Two tigers were a half decent 12 inches, and those were the biggest fish of the day. The strikes were very delicate and without a spring bobber or feeling the line with my fingers while jigging I would not have noticed them.
For about an hour they were biting pretty good, then they shut down completely. Nobody was doing well after that, including a group of seasoned ice veterans not far from me, fishing with their vexilars. It stayed dead for hours. I moved from hole to hole at varying depths, and at 1:30 decided to start packing up. I decided to make one last attempt at one of my holes, and I'm glad I did. That's when I ended up getting into a pocket of trout at a depth of 40 feet, and caught 5 more dink splakes and tigers. Still fun though. All in all I ended up catching at least 10 fish.
I packed up at a little after 2 pm, and ran into Scotty, a member on the board here. It wasn't the best day for him either, and stepping off the ice to hike up the dam he went in up to his knee. Good thing he was leaving! Anyway, it was good to see another member and he seemed like a real nice guy. We chatted for a bit about different places we want to fish.
The roads were fine, but I got big time stuck parking on the road going over the dam in the morning. Weather was perfect, it was another "no gloves" day. The ice was in great condition, several inches thick, with a little slush but nothing bad. You do need to be careful around those edges!
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