10-03-2011, 03:53 AM
"that they were up high and shallow. Mostly around the weed bed edges in 15 to 25 feet of water."
That is the are we caught them in. The bows were higher up and most of the cutts were dead on the bottom, almost hard to read on the finder at times they were so close. We treated a few like ice fishing and pulled them off the bottom.
Sad thing is the cuts seem to have disappeared. Mostly rainbows. I only caught about 5 cutts the whole night. What is going on? Where are the big cutts that we all thought would be in the Berry by now?
We caught 50/50, I think it depends on the area and time of day more than anything. They seem to switch depths many times throughout the day and also where they hold at those depths.
The rainbows were all in the 12 to 14 range with only a couple of footballs that were 15 to 17. Those fish were fat and fought hard. If the power bait fishermen don't kill them all there will be some amazing rainbows next year and the year after.
It will be a ton of fun! We caught bows in the same size range, but one real nice one.
The fish had their mouths wired shut. Fished all morning and only caught 9 fish. Three were cutts. That is frustrating. My buddy wondered if I was really caught them the night before. That is way it goes at the Berry. One minute hot, the next cold.
Saturday was by far our best day. The fish were not doing the same Sunday. They were biting hot right before those storms and the wind and the waves seemed to say bring on the fish! Calm this morning and we did ok, but called it quits and came home at noon after fishing for 2 hours...late start. We caught a good handful, but nothing like Saturday PM.
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That is the are we caught them in. The bows were higher up and most of the cutts were dead on the bottom, almost hard to read on the finder at times they were so close. We treated a few like ice fishing and pulled them off the bottom.
Sad thing is the cuts seem to have disappeared. Mostly rainbows. I only caught about 5 cutts the whole night. What is going on? Where are the big cutts that we all thought would be in the Berry by now?
We caught 50/50, I think it depends on the area and time of day more than anything. They seem to switch depths many times throughout the day and also where they hold at those depths.
The rainbows were all in the 12 to 14 range with only a couple of footballs that were 15 to 17. Those fish were fat and fought hard. If the power bait fishermen don't kill them all there will be some amazing rainbows next year and the year after.
It will be a ton of fun! We caught bows in the same size range, but one real nice one.
The fish had their mouths wired shut. Fished all morning and only caught 9 fish. Three were cutts. That is frustrating. My buddy wondered if I was really caught them the night before. That is way it goes at the Berry. One minute hot, the next cold.
Saturday was by far our best day. The fish were not doing the same Sunday. They were biting hot right before those storms and the wind and the waves seemed to say bring on the fish! Calm this morning and we did ok, but called it quits and came home at noon after fishing for 2 hours...late start. We caught a good handful, but nothing like Saturday PM.
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