Fishing Forum

The wife and I went over to CJ for 5 days, Monday-Friday, 10/13-17. Monday / Tuesday were a blowout wind 25+mph. Wednesday through Friday were great fishing days. We fished mostly for smallmouth and, for us, did fairly well. Caught a couple dozen over 12", with 6-8 in the 15"+/- range. Water temp was about 60 degrees.
The fishing was best on Wednesday when a big pressure ridge blew in, seemed to trigger the bite. On Friday morning the wind picked up through the narrows so we wind-drifted the western shore line and picked up a bunch of bass.
We caught the majority of the bass on Carolina rigged brown worms working the bottom in 20-40 feet of water, targeting humps & drops.
Wife caught about a dozen trout on cranks. We saw a number of dead 10" trout at the Cottonwood boat ramp on Tuesday - had to wonder if these were recent plants and had died.
MTBob
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Nice work Bob, you learn quick. Idaho power has planted 50000 trout there in the last few weeks. We've been doing really well at Milner lately, but next week it's back to strike.
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My son caught this 5.52 in the narrows today.
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Nice bass, wow! Yea, I think I recognize him, "the one that got away" []
MTBob
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That's a beautiful SMB, looks like the picture was taken away from the narrows. I have never caught a SMB that big but have taken two 7 lb. plus LMB out of C.J. back in the early 70's. Not much pressure for bass in those days. [fishin]
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Those big girls are still around they are just finicky, never try for them in a tourny, you'll get spanked. We always haul fish away for photo ops and try not to let the meat eaters see what we are doing. The perch are bigger this fall, hope it freezes over this year.
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You going to be at the snow bowl?
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Yessir and Basshunters is having a tourny this Saturday at black sands and it open to everyone. 80 bucks a boat.
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Yea, I was going to fish on Saturday but kids have there last soccer game and I got the stink eye if I went fishing. Good luck see you on Nov 1.
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