Awesome footage of some nice bass and tiger muskie being caught on top water poppers watch and enjoy Thanks and please subscribe to my channel
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Very nice video, looks like it was fun trip.
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Yeah it was an awesome time hittin fish on top water never gets old
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Awesome video, need to get up their this week. Definatly going to be poppin, this has got me amped, looks like alot of fun!
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Heck yeah man those fish should be hittin good right know let me know how u do if you go
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Sweet video! Good on ya letting 'em go.
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How recent is this video? It must have been summer if the water was 74 degrees, right? Awesome fish. Do they still hit top water this time of year?
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[quote FISH_STICK]How recent is this video? It must have been summer if the water was 74 degrees, right? Awesome fish. Do they still hit top water this time of year?[/quote]
[#0000FF]That video appears to have been shot during the summer...when there was new green growth, shirt sleeve weather and a lake that was much higher than it is right now.
Totally different under current conditions. Lake is very low, water is much colder and the fish are all deep. Highly unlikely to get bass in water shallower than about 30 feet. No topwater at all. While it is possible to catch bass in the deeper water it is not recommended. They suffer from the "bends" when cranked up from water more than about 30 feet deep and may not survive even if released...even if "fizzed" to release air from their swim bladders.
Always nice to see pics and videos of successful fishing trips but you gotta take into consideration what the current conditions are and not be tricked into thinking you can go up and duplicate that fishing any time of year.
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Tubedude is right, not much top water action going on right now at all. I was there Saturday and we caught fish but they were all mostly deeper. We didn't even really see any fish surface at all. I don't think top water fishing is going to be the way to go right now. It was fun while it lasted though!
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Thanks for making that clear! I went their right before the start of october and we caught two muskies at the banks in the early morning, do you think at this time of the year the muskies have gone deeper also? My blind thoughts where doing it in the mornings for tigers, but obviously I didnt give much thought on them already being alot deeper.
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[#0000FF]Tigers are different than bass. On any given day you might find some still cruising along the banks in fairly shallow water. There are some guys that troll along the steep banks clear up until ice off. And I have seen them come up to the top in deeper water to slurp up a crappie or perch flopping on the surface after being released and being unable to swim back down.
It is not uncommon to see them cruising through only a few feet down over deep water...even under the ice. It is not usually productive to look for them like that because they are widely scattered. But if you keep a rod rigged to fish middepths you can sometimes get a mark on your sonar to munch something big and juicy.
One day in mid November...about 5 years ago...I saw two tigers caught by guys working the shoreline along the rocks in the narrows. And on that same day I caught one on a small perch jig tipped with perch meat...right on the bottom in about 45 feet of water.
As a general rule, you will find more tigers hanging out near their food supply...small perch and crappies. Sometimes they are right down on the bottom or just above it...where the groceries are swimming. Other times they are up in the water column but in the same area. No generalities you can bank on for every trip. Just use your knowledge of the lake and your sonar to help find the other fish and then work it with tiger sized lures.
Time of day? In cooler weather you will often do better later in the day, after the sun has warmed the water a bit. And south-facing shorelines will often produce better than shaded northern shorelines.
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TubeDude hit it on the money that vid was shot in july but I just got my editing system so that's why I just posted it but sounds like you know whats goin on pretty good at pineview tubedude you fish up there alot
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That looked like a fun trip! I need to take video next time I head out after the big ones.
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You really do man never know when the monster is gonna hit and its nice to have it on video good luck when you get out next time
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Thanks for the well informed knowledge TubeDude!
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"you fish up there a lot?"
[#0000FF]Not as much as I used to. I have fished it since the 1970s. In those days it was a Utah trout pond, with lots of bass, crappies, bluegills and bullhead cats. Oh yeah, carp too. No perch, smallies or tigers.
I liked it better in earlier times. The bass and crappies were large and plentiful. And while the power squadron could get pesky on the weekends it was still tubeable...if that is a word. In those days before a lot of the troutologists converted to the way of the bass it was possible to have 40 to 50 fish days on largies...and over 100 crappies in a day was not uncommon...with both species maintaining good average sizes.
Since then the perch have overrun the lake and the smallies have crowded out a lot of the largies. Tiger muskies have helped on the perch but their numbers are lower than they need to be for effective control. The crappies are fewer and smaller on average because of the perch competition. But they go in cycles and some years there are some bigguns. The one good thing is that DWR quit planting trout in Pineview a long time ago.
I still love PIneview. I would fish it a lot more these days if it wasn't so overrun with the power squadron. Worst lake I have ever fished...anywhere in the country...for idiots who completely ignore the 150 foot proximity law and the basic rules of common sense and good sportsmanship.
Even though I now only fish it late in the year...after the wackos go home...I try to stay in tune with what is going on throughout the year. I make lures for a few folks that fish it all year so I get plenty of inside info to keep tabs on it.
In spite of all the abuse, and the yearly fluctuations in water levels, Pineview has always managed to produce some good fishing. I hope we get enough of a wet winter to fill it back up again this year.
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