08-03-2021, 11:52 PM
(08-03-2021, 11:07 PM)kentofnsl Wrote:(08-03-2021, 05:50 PM)catchinon Wrote: Just curious about the size. And would you mind sharing your methods?
We found them down ~25' from the surface out in about 35' of water. I moved into the ~25' of water and hit the spot lock.
I like to set up a drop-shot rig and tie 2 or 3 size 6 bait hooks on my line. Tipping with a small chunk of night crawler will catch them and I found out that they also love mealworms (bought too many for ice season). We even caught several just using bare hooks! Dropping straight down, to the bottom, usually gets an immediate bite, but if not one can cast and let it sink to the bottom and slowly bounce back to the boat or the shore.
Average size was ~7to 8".
Next time, I am going to try to remember to take my fish traps. I have a hunch that I can catch over 100' of them in ~34 minutes with my fish traps.
Maybe we were doing wrong but we tried fish traps last year with no success. At least catfood did not work, maybe some other bait would work better.