03-20-2019, 05:15 PM
I have read all the posts, and I don't see anyone discussing details of "how" they continue fishing.
At flaming gorge, we caught our limit of trout. We continued to fish, but changed to tactics for smallmouth bass, moving along the shoreline and casting/retrieving artificial baits. Yes, we might have caught a trout, but chances were very small using these tactics. We did catch smallmouth and no trout.
Ice fishing at Rockport, I have caught a limit of trout, fishing 15 feet down in 40 feet of water. I continued to fish, but switched tactics and fished the bottom with a perch setup. Yes, probably a chance of catching a trout on the bottom, but there was enough perch activity that no trout bit.
So, seems to me the conundrum of concerns about continuing to fish can be reduced by discontinuing fishing with the methods you have successfully caught your limit. Hopefully you are on a water that has multispecies that can be targeted with different tactics.
Not to stir anything up. Just my two cents.
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At flaming gorge, we caught our limit of trout. We continued to fish, but changed to tactics for smallmouth bass, moving along the shoreline and casting/retrieving artificial baits. Yes, we might have caught a trout, but chances were very small using these tactics. We did catch smallmouth and no trout.
Ice fishing at Rockport, I have caught a limit of trout, fishing 15 feet down in 40 feet of water. I continued to fish, but switched tactics and fished the bottom with a perch setup. Yes, probably a chance of catching a trout on the bottom, but there was enough perch activity that no trout bit.
So, seems to me the conundrum of concerns about continuing to fish can be reduced by discontinuing fishing with the methods you have successfully caught your limit. Hopefully you are on a water that has multispecies that can be targeted with different tactics.
Not to stir anything up. Just my two cents.
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