I'm typically a crankbait fan once I've located them but trolling can get expensive if you're where you need to be with them. Here in UT I've found a bottom bouncer with a crawler harness works best for me. Anyone have better luck with other methods they would like to share?
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Early spring Willard bay. Either a lindy rig with a spin and glow, single # 4 hook and 1/2 a crawler. Or a 1/4 or 3/8 jig head with 1/2 crawler on a 3 way swivel and a floating jig head with 1/2 crawler on a 12 to 15 inch dropper. Both rigs real slow.
After the water warms up I'll go to a bouncer and a crawler harness at 1 to 1 1/2 MPH.
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I used to fish with a 3 way swivel and a floating jig head all the time in the rivers back home. I never tried it in still water but it makes perfect sense when the water is cold and the fish are still lithargic. I'm going to give that a try early. I'm still trying to figure out why we can't use live minnows when I see more carp then I've ever seen in my life at Yuba and DC.
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if you dont have one get a two poll permit . Jig and worm is a good way to dead stick one rod. then you can do some crankin and jigging w/ the other pole. I like to drift the structure with the jignworm right off the bottom then i can slowly throw 3 ": power grubs with the walleye scent (very hard to find anymore) pumpkinseed,green pumpkinseed or black. I put those on a glow in the dark, white,green,chartruse,red 1/8 oz. jig heads. 1/4 oz. if its windy. Cast out and let it drop till you feel the bottom and keep the tension taunt. then I raise it off the bottom fluctuating the depth that the jig bounces up and feeling for the weight of the fish replacing the weight of the jig. This is my most common technique and if I find fish I feel I can catch them this way and fish confident.
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treble hook and a heavy sinker in the channel above the south marina[
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I hope your kidding!!!!!!! I figured you were a fair fisherman.[shocked]
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useing live perch minnows would be best at yuba!! but the carp would eat them faster then the Eye's would anyway!! [mad]..
my favorite method is trolling cranks.. next it would have to be jigging a worm.. again at yuba the carp are on it faster then the eye's so it's not veary efective there..
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Of course i was kidding, it is too quiet around here right now.[
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Hey I like your idea with the there prong and sinker but dont you think it would be better if you had two poles rigged up like that so when you get one to the bank you can start throwing the other out as soon as possible. You never know how fast the fishing is going to be that day.
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I dont know that crankem has any jigs in his boat.I have never seen one.Not unless Rue was in the boat!But he does have a boncer or two or are those Debs.[
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Fuzz any live bait would be great for the Eye's
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Good point, maybe even have the second one bigger so you can cover more water??
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yes that is very true! any live bait would be better then no live bait.. shinners or chub ether one would work good for the eye's and pike.. but i dont see that happening any time soon.. we need to wait for all the trout brains to leve the DWR first. [angelic]..
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Funny guy[:p]
I happen to own a few of those bouncers in our boat (seeing as how I make my own).
I have been known to tie a jig on now and then when my beloved bouncer and crawler harness isen't working[:/]
In fact when Deb and I won the Yuba tourny in 2003 it was done strickly using a jig and a crawler.
I'm in my "comfort zone" fishing a crank or bouncer. Tying a jig on takes me out of that zone.
As far as jigs in my boat goes, I probably have 40 or 50 pounds worth of jigs in the Crestliner. They make good counter weight balance when I'm fishing by myself [:p]
Ahhh Rue God rest his soul. A great friend, mentor and an absolute master with with a jig. I swear that man could catch an eye out of a horse trough with a jig. But I have seen him go to a harness on occasion
Fish with what your comfortable with. I do[cool].
P.S. If you have never seen a jig in our boat you were probably to busy trying to see what kind of blades and beads we had tied on our bouncing rods[shocked]
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Trout dummies. Only the strong survive
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Sounds like we fish very similar for the eyes. I used to use jigs a lot more then I do now but love to troll with the bottom bouncers here. I have a few different jig molds and a lead melter so have a few thousand jigs myself.
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2 setups on the river. The 1st lindy rigged in the current 1/0 offset with shad or crawlers, 2nd either 1/4-1/2 jighead 2/0 w/gulp alive bumpin and casting while the first sits. Dropshottin is a favorite too in debris.
Smiles Always!
MA
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Hey maybe we can figure out a way to put two three prongers on each line you never know.
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Yup ! You bass boys can allways learn new tricks [
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