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[font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000][size 4]JiggyJus10 joined me for a short morning trip to the Berry yesterday. Wow …. What a beautiful time of year to fish. I love the morning skies, the patchy fog, sun coming up over the mountains, and the bright yellow aspens. Then launching the boat and cruising of to hopefully a good day of fishing. Don't get any better than that.
We drove over to Renegade and launched there. The road was interesting. It had some mean pot holes in the asphalt that required some interesting driving. There is about a 1000 yards of road that isn't yet paved but it still supports two-way traffic. Overall, the road to Renegade is plenty good if that's where you want to launch. You just have to be a little careful and not go as fast as you might be use to going.
The water temps were still 55° all day and the bite was slower than I had hoped.
We were planning on vertical jigging white tube jigs tipped with chub all day but we never found any fish concentrated enough under us to vertical jig. So we would just cast that tube out as far as possible and slowly retrieve it. We only caught about 25 fish between the both of us with Justin catching twice as many as me.
We got lots of bites that we missed. We discovered that when reeling in the lure, if you felt a nibble, if you slowed way down to let them take it, your chances of hooking up was much greater.
Our first bite didn't come until about 10:00. Because I needed to be home early, we called it quits at 12:30. So our 25 fish came in in only 2 ½ hours.
The water still has lots of algae in it but the water over by the big points east of the ramp were EXTREEMLY full of floating algae. It was so bad, we opted to not even drop a line there.
We caught 90% of our fish over in that big bay north-west of the Renegade ramp. For a while there, Justin was putting on a real clinic. He just kept landing them one after another while other boats watched. Every once in a while, it's fun to be in the boat where all the catching is happening.
I caught a real nice rainbow that did a couple high aerobics and several long hard runs before I landed him.
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Justin and I had a great short morning on the Berry. [/size][/#800000][/font]
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10 was the hot time. We were there earlier and caught a few, but from 10 to noon, couple dozen each was pretty easy and all healthy mix.
For us and the fly, seemed fast sparked hard hits.
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That pic does not do that hog justice. This one doesn't either but gives some perspective if anyone knows how big your net is. Either way it sure was a beautiful day!
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Ya know FG, there has never been a time when I was at the Berry that I didn't wonder which, if any one, of those tubers was you. Someday I'd like to meet up with you. I do have a fly that you custom made. I got it from a friend of a friend of yours. I've never used it yet but will someday.
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He even knows the people he doesn't know on the lake. (Inside joke but he knew lots of people on the lake yestersay) Wish there were more fisherman like Coot, he gave (literally) what was working to fellow boaters & gave them our bag o' chubb meat to boot.
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She's the one with a dachshund riding on the back of her toon. Easy to spot.
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Great report! Nice lookin fish too...
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[quote Troll]She's the one with a dachshund riding on the back of her toon. Easy to spot.[/quote]
That is the truth! Plus the different from anybody elses pontoon. This boat I am using lately is a one of a kind around here.
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Hey Old Coot thanks for the report. I've finally have time today to get the boat ready for fall fishing. Hope to take my boys to the Berry Thursday.
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whats the deal with all the algae? it was a nightmare from shore on Sunday.
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[quote aloneone]whats the deal with all the algae? it was a nightmare from shore on Sunday.[/quote]
Continued warm spell (water surface temps stuck at 55°). Once we get into some serious colder temps, that algae will reduce significantly.
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you think we could be there by this weekend? im wanting to head up on saturday.
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I think it will be bad for a couple more weeks. We are hitting it again this weekend though. Got new flies I need to drown.[cool]
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We got lots of bites that we missed. We discovered that when reeling in the lure, if you felt a nibble, if you slowed way down to let them take it, your chances of hooking up was much greater.
When this happens to me and I miss the set or pull it out. I feed it back to him by giving him 3' to 5' of line. I watch for a take and if I don't see it then take in the slack real slow he seems to be there a lot of the time. I am trying to imitate an injured minnow falling in the column. Don't know if that is what they think or if it actually looks like one but it seems to work for me quite often.
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[quote PACMEN]When this happens to me and I miss the set or pull it out. I feed it back to him by giving him 3' to 5' of line. I watch for a take and if I don't see it then take in the slack real slow he seems to be there a lot of the time. I am trying to imitate an injured minnow falling in the column. Don't know if that is what they think or if it actually looks like one but it seems to work for me quite often.[/quote]
I can see why that would work. I, on the other hand, am quite leery of making it so easy for them because they will too often swallow it way too deep then you've got a mess on your hands. So I prefer to keep the bait moving slightly so they don't swallow it deep.
There is a technique that I plan to try next time down there. That is to use the same lure (white tube jig tipped with chub) but put it about 8 feet behind a casting bubble. Chuck it out there and reel it in very slowly.
Anyone tried that? How does it work for you?
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[quote Old_Coot][quote PACMEN]When this happens to me and I miss the set or pull it out. I feed it back to him by giving him 3' to 5' of line. I watch for a take and if I don't see it then take in the slack real slow he seems to be there a lot of the time. I am trying to imitate an injured minnow falling in the column. Don't know if that is what they think or if it actually looks like one but it seems to work for me quite often.[/quote]
I can see why that would work. I, on the other hand, am quite leery of making it so easy for them because they will too often swallow it way too deep then you've got a mess on your hands. So I prefer to keep the bait moving slightly so they don't swallow it deep.
There is a technique that I plan to try next time down there. That is to use the same lure (white tube jig tipped with chub) but put it about 8 feet behind a casting bubble. Chuck it out there and reel it in very slowly.
Anyone tried that? How does it work for you?[/quote]
I'm glad you mentioned this because I was deep hooking more often than usual and I think this is the reason why. They hit it, miss the hook up, let it fall, and wait for the second take as it falls. It's effective but I hate it when they take it deep. I'm going to follow your advice and just keep reeling it in, keeping tension on the jig.
I've used the bubble technique before that you are referring to. Either the clear bubble filled half full or the red/white ones with some weight behind it. It works well when the fish are shallow. I like it because the bubble floats on top and gives the jig a lot of action as it bobs up and down. I just reeled it in slowly and the waves did all the work.
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