03-14-2019, 01:13 PM
Hey Kent thank you for the report and glad the day turned out okay for you guys... Sounds like the slush must of gotten better or you're not a whiner like I was... I noticed the same thing as you mentioned about the fish being small out in the middle... We only got a limited number of fish over 18" out in the middle, but got a ton of 12-15"ers... I don't remember hearing if any of our group caught any bows, but I don't think we did... I know I didn't, but we did luck into a nice bunch of kokes, which I was very happy for..
I had a hard time making the switch to a dodger on my line as well, but after I started catching fish, I adjusted really quick... I used my smaller dodger, I think it was the 5.5" size, but it worked much better than the solitary jig on my jigging jaw jacker..
What depth did you find the fish? Most of the active ones we were finding were around 35' down and we were fishing about 77 fow...
I really liked having a fish finder for this last trip to the berry, I think it made a ton of difference for me to get on the fish that were actively taking it... There were a lot of fish down around 45-50', but they wouldn't take it, so I went up to the 20-30' range and those fish were interested in feeding and that's where the active kokes were at also..
I did see some of the deep fish see my lure 15-20' above them and dash up and hit my lure, so I think fishing shallower, was better for me..
Oh one last thing, lures were very important for us this last trip... I tried all the stuff I thought would/should work and after nothing for over an hour as I was switching around, while others were doing quite well, I switched to a Maniac 1.5" Cut'r bug in glow with a meal worm half on it and the fish turned on for me... The rest of the day I had a blast, until my body got tore up so I switched to a pink glow body and they shut right down again... 45 minutes later, I went back to glow and started catching fish the rest of the day... I think it was more than coincidence this time... Usually the crazy glow orange is our favorite color down there, but only one fish on it this trip... So it's good to have a selection of colors for those days when the old go to won't work..
Too bad its so far away from where I live, I sure like fishing that lake, you guys are lucky that live close enough to go there often... Later J
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I had a hard time making the switch to a dodger on my line as well, but after I started catching fish, I adjusted really quick... I used my smaller dodger, I think it was the 5.5" size, but it worked much better than the solitary jig on my jigging jaw jacker..
What depth did you find the fish? Most of the active ones we were finding were around 35' down and we were fishing about 77 fow...
I really liked having a fish finder for this last trip to the berry, I think it made a ton of difference for me to get on the fish that were actively taking it... There were a lot of fish down around 45-50', but they wouldn't take it, so I went up to the 20-30' range and those fish were interested in feeding and that's where the active kokes were at also..
I did see some of the deep fish see my lure 15-20' above them and dash up and hit my lure, so I think fishing shallower, was better for me..
Oh one last thing, lures were very important for us this last trip... I tried all the stuff I thought would/should work and after nothing for over an hour as I was switching around, while others were doing quite well, I switched to a Maniac 1.5" Cut'r bug in glow with a meal worm half on it and the fish turned on for me... The rest of the day I had a blast, until my body got tore up so I switched to a pink glow body and they shut right down again... 45 minutes later, I went back to glow and started catching fish the rest of the day... I think it was more than coincidence this time... Usually the crazy glow orange is our favorite color down there, but only one fish on it this trip... So it's good to have a selection of colors for those days when the old go to won't work..
Too bad its so far away from where I live, I sure like fishing that lake, you guys are lucky that live close enough to go there often... Later J
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