09-19-2010, 05:37 PM
I appreciate all the posts. Hopefully I didn't overwhelm with the responses. This post is a reply to wiper junkie and Wildcat, if there's a way I could do them all at once so I don't post over and over but the people who commented know I replied let me know.
So you 2 had success with LMB in Pineview. I have some questions about Bass. Do they jump? I know trout do, and at Pineview I saw plenty of Carp jump, but saw some other fish jump but couldn't tell what they were. Do pike and bass generally inhabit the same waters as carp? (If so I was in the best spots then)
I've caught 3 fish with Jigs, 2 at Flaming Gorge very small but had lots of strikes and embarrassed to admit this, the largest was a small mouth bass at Rockport I caught with a casting reel when I had a birds nest in it and I dropped the lure in the water to untangle it and couldn't figure out what was going on and reeled in my biggest smallie to date. Jigging and setting the hook seems counter intuitive to what it is for lures/bait fishing (usually for trout). I'm self taught and maybe that's the problem because I constantly lack confidence that I'm doing it the right way.
I'd love to his Pineview or Willard with someone who is experienced with fish that prefer a warmer water temperatures than trout do. From what I am gathering good looking trout holes are definitely not good looking warmer water fish spots and I can't seem to find a spot for those fish, especially with the water level as low as it was at Pineview and Willard is just a big body of water who knows what to look for.
Sorry for the long post, I'm trying to learn new things.
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So you 2 had success with LMB in Pineview. I have some questions about Bass. Do they jump? I know trout do, and at Pineview I saw plenty of Carp jump, but saw some other fish jump but couldn't tell what they were. Do pike and bass generally inhabit the same waters as carp? (If so I was in the best spots then)
I've caught 3 fish with Jigs, 2 at Flaming Gorge very small but had lots of strikes and embarrassed to admit this, the largest was a small mouth bass at Rockport I caught with a casting reel when I had a birds nest in it and I dropped the lure in the water to untangle it and couldn't figure out what was going on and reeled in my biggest smallie to date. Jigging and setting the hook seems counter intuitive to what it is for lures/bait fishing (usually for trout). I'm self taught and maybe that's the problem because I constantly lack confidence that I'm doing it the right way.
I'd love to his Pineview or Willard with someone who is experienced with fish that prefer a warmer water temperatures than trout do. From what I am gathering good looking trout holes are definitely not good looking warmer water fish spots and I can't seem to find a spot for those fish, especially with the water level as low as it was at Pineview and Willard is just a big body of water who knows what to look for.
Sorry for the long post, I'm trying to learn new things.
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