10-27-2002, 06:57 PM
Peace, my brothers. You guys don't know me well enough to know that I don't take myself too seriously, and I don't expect anyone else to do so either. Man, the last thing in the world I would ever do is criticize a fellow fisherman. Yeah, I took a bit of a potshot, but I wasn't hoping to hit anybody in particular.
I did get a chuckle out of Coot's post about the guys slow trolling white plastics and catching wipers. I posted that suggestion over a month ago...including the blue back pearl shad and the white twisters with red heads. I also used to use white shad or twisters with a red line down the back, that I put on myself with a red permanent marker. I have always caught fish in Willard right up to hard water. In fact, some of the fastest fishing some years was pitching those lures next to the growing ice and bottom bouncing parallel with the ice edge. Of course, that was when there was water in the lake, and I fished inside the North Marina or South Marina.
All I am offering is the suggestion to try something new. I learned the low and slow lesson a long tima ago, with the help of a new fishing buddy who had been doing it for years. As soon as I got properly "tackled", and practiced the cast and retrieve variations, I began to catch more and bigger fish...in places and at times I previously blanked. I use it whenever the fish are slow, neutral or negative.
That brings up another point. I salute anyone who can routinely catch wipers on lures, with the exception of the times they are boiling or "eating the rocks". The pros down south quit trying to frustrate themselves when the fish aren't hitting lures. They net a few hundred shad and fish them live just off the bottom. Even then, it can be tough. In Utah we would get crucified for using live shad, so we have to make do with lures. Add a few drops of shad scent and it will improve the odds.
Predator...in answer to your question about me coming back to Utah, all I can say is that it will be as soon as possible. I was getting ready to head north again about a year ago. Then my mother had a mild stroke and my dad fell apart. They are both alive but in poor health. I moved them out of their house in Idaho and into my home in Phoenix, not expecting either of them to make it through last winter. Evidently the warm climate agrees with them and they are still with me. When their natural cycle of life allows me to resume my own, I will load my tackle and head back HOME.
I beg your indulgence if I pontificate a bit. All I am trying to do is pass on some of the great lessons I have received from some great teachers in my past angling experiences. Then, when I make it back up there, you can put me to the test...to see if I can at least thread a worm on a hook...or catch a fishie once in awhile. In the meantime, I love the forum and enjoy living vicariously through the comaraderie and fishing experiences of the regulars.
I'm truly sorry I couldn't work out something to make the breakfast. Coot has been working on me to make a surprise appearance at the shindig on ice. Wouldn't I love to do that.
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I did get a chuckle out of Coot's post about the guys slow trolling white plastics and catching wipers. I posted that suggestion over a month ago...including the blue back pearl shad and the white twisters with red heads. I also used to use white shad or twisters with a red line down the back, that I put on myself with a red permanent marker. I have always caught fish in Willard right up to hard water. In fact, some of the fastest fishing some years was pitching those lures next to the growing ice and bottom bouncing parallel with the ice edge. Of course, that was when there was water in the lake, and I fished inside the North Marina or South Marina.
All I am offering is the suggestion to try something new. I learned the low and slow lesson a long tima ago, with the help of a new fishing buddy who had been doing it for years. As soon as I got properly "tackled", and practiced the cast and retrieve variations, I began to catch more and bigger fish...in places and at times I previously blanked. I use it whenever the fish are slow, neutral or negative.
That brings up another point. I salute anyone who can routinely catch wipers on lures, with the exception of the times they are boiling or "eating the rocks". The pros down south quit trying to frustrate themselves when the fish aren't hitting lures. They net a few hundred shad and fish them live just off the bottom. Even then, it can be tough. In Utah we would get crucified for using live shad, so we have to make do with lures. Add a few drops of shad scent and it will improve the odds.
Predator...in answer to your question about me coming back to Utah, all I can say is that it will be as soon as possible. I was getting ready to head north again about a year ago. Then my mother had a mild stroke and my dad fell apart. They are both alive but in poor health. I moved them out of their house in Idaho and into my home in Phoenix, not expecting either of them to make it through last winter. Evidently the warm climate agrees with them and they are still with me. When their natural cycle of life allows me to resume my own, I will load my tackle and head back HOME.
I beg your indulgence if I pontificate a bit. All I am trying to do is pass on some of the great lessons I have received from some great teachers in my past angling experiences. Then, when I make it back up there, you can put me to the test...to see if I can at least thread a worm on a hook...or catch a fishie once in awhile. In the meantime, I love the forum and enjoy living vicariously through the comaraderie and fishing experiences of the regulars.
I'm truly sorry I couldn't work out something to make the breakfast. Coot has been working on me to make a surprise appearance at the shindig on ice. Wouldn't I love to do that.
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