Me and my brother in law hit big blue again.. The weather was GREAT !! We fished just North of the rest area in 80' of water.. I managed to ice 7 macs and 2 cutts.. Big blue wasnt so nice to my brother in law.. He only iced 1 cutt.. I was using 5" glow pearl tube tipped with cisco.. Enjoy ..
Oh ya ice was in good cond. 6" with 2" of snow on top... Watch out for the springs.. There were a couple spots that looked iffy..
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That's sweet, I hit all last weekend!
Knocked it out of the park!!!
I was not going to post how hot bear lake was until after this weekend. LOL!!!
But that's awesome , nice fish!!!!
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Great catching. Sure wish that I would have caught one more like that when I was up there recently.
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Very nice, makes me almost want to take up ice fishing......almost.[laugh]
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I was not going to post how hot bear lake was until after this weekend. LOL!!! [/quote]
Ya there are some who dont like it when i blert out all the info but, i like to share.. it might just get that father to take out his youngins and land a big fish..
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Your right about the youngsters,
Love to see the kids catch big trout, and there are only a few places in the state that you can do that!
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Right on brotha I love the pics I'm headed up in the morin hope fully its as good to me as it was to you do you think Cisco it necessary
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we fished around the rock pile today from 8 to 1 pm. Very slow, my buddy caught 1 mac about 5 pounds and full of cisco. Very light and infrequent bite. Lots of folks there - I think we counted about 40 groups in that area. good luck to ya
Did you see any one eles have very much luck and how deep where you if u don't mind me asking
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Awesome post Dave, thanks for sharing your report and pics. Sounds like the key was location, was your brother in law getting any bites?
[url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/cgi-bin/community/community.cgi?do=user_page;pg=user_profile_view.html;username=fearfish"]fearfish[/url]- You can catch them on sucker or chub meat, I've even caught them on carp meat but cisco is the best in most cases.
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My son and I hit Big Blue today. We fished by the pulloff south of Sweet Water resort. Tried 80' and 90'. Saw a few fish in each area but nothing very steady. We had 4 hook ups but they all came unbuttoned before we could see them. Stayed there until 2:00 then went over to the rockpile to see if we could get any white fish. Only managed 5 of them. Everyone I talked to said it was very slow today. I only saw 4 people catch a fish (other than the whites).
Dave, you must have fed them well or educated them for us!
I'll probably wait a week or so then try it agian.
Here is a question for you all. I have some Cisco that has been in the freezer for a few years. When it's cut it's not very oily like a fresh one. Does that matter? Am I wasting my time with stale bait? We tried some sucker meat today but still didn't catch any fish.
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Right on I'm headed up there in the morning I'm just going to try tipin it with shrimp and craw fish
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My experience is .... Yes old sisco sucks!
Keep it whole and rotated.
Sucker works great, it apperantly was just a slow day
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We also fished BL today. Caught some macs (biggest weighing in around 8lbs) and a couple small cutts. We didn't have cisco, i had recently picked up a bottle of cisco scent at pugstones there in garden city and it seemed to do the trick. Hopefully heading back up Monday for another run at them. We did keep a couple of the pup macs and their bellies were completely empty. The action was better early, really slowed down after 10:30
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[quote wiperhunter2]Awesome post Dave, thanks for sharing your report and pics. Sounds like the key was location, was your brother in law getting any bites ?[/quote]
Yes location and luck played a big part.. As far as my bro inlaw getting any bites ?? He was to busy landing my fish to notice.[
] Well not really.. Funny thing .. He was only 10' from me and using the same bait..
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[quote fearfish]Did you see any one eles have very much luck and how deep where you if u don't mind me asking[/quote]
We were the only ones out there.. 80' to 90'..
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We were fishing in 65' of water, nearly all of the fish we saw on the finder were right on the bottom (within a foot or two)
best wishes