08-16-2021, 01:27 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-16-2021, 01:33 AM by sanitarymechanic.)
(08-15-2021, 02:07 PM)Jig-fisher Wrote: Yes, utah sucker. Tip your jigs with a small piece of sucker or chub (skin on). It will stay on the hook longer with skin attached and you can usually catch multiple fish per piece of bait. The fish are deep right now and any decent electronics can help you find the concentrations of fish. Anchoring or using spot lock if you have it at those spots and vertical jigging with the tubes usually can put a lot of slot cutts in the boat. If you are wanting to keep fish, the rainbows are usually shallower. Sounds like you figured the bows out. Any size to them?
Our biggest for the day was 16". All were at least 14. Nothing to jump around about but good eating size.
(08-15-2021, 02:55 PM)kentofnsl Wrote:(08-15-2021, 07:57 AM)sanitarymechanic Wrote: We didn't really anchor it was a calm morning. We started about 40 feet. Eventually drifted in to about 15 feet.
You were fishing in too shallow of water. The cutthroats can not survive if they stay in the shallower water up there these days. The surface temperature is between 67 and 70 degrees, which is fine for warm water species but not for trout. We have been finding them in 55 to 63' of water and most are near the bottom.
Noted. Next time I'll try deeper. Reviewing my "YouTube research" I should have moved south of strawberry bay. The narrows, or the meadows where some areas mentioned.