06-22-2013, 06:59 PM
Part of the problem is fishing is different every day.
A week or so ago I wrote up a report on Deer Creek featuring lots of pictures with nice Trout hooked on a Rainbow Rapala. I caught 6 or 8 that day in 2 hours.
I haven't caught another one since on the very same lure, in the same locations (but much different conditions).
To wit... another thing I find rapalas work better the worse the weather is. They are almost useless in glassy water without a downrigger or some serious sinkerage... particularly in the warm summer months. Put a ripple on the surface and Whamo!
Colors and types to matter a lot. Know where you are going to fish and what kinds of feed fish are in the body of water.
I really like the rainbow rapalas as a go-to lure. The DNR trains all the fish-eaters to chow down on little planter bows. So about everything will eat them.
On Deer Creek I catch SMB, LMB, Walleye and trout all with the same lure. Although oddly the Bass seem to like the jointed better and the trout seem to like the balsa floater.
On Strawberry yesterday I couldn't keep them off my downriggers at 25-35'.
One final note on speed... 2MPH is normally our top end speed. I catch a lot on my tube going perhaps 1.3MPH.
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A week or so ago I wrote up a report on Deer Creek featuring lots of pictures with nice Trout hooked on a Rainbow Rapala. I caught 6 or 8 that day in 2 hours.
I haven't caught another one since on the very same lure, in the same locations (but much different conditions).
To wit... another thing I find rapalas work better the worse the weather is. They are almost useless in glassy water without a downrigger or some serious sinkerage... particularly in the warm summer months. Put a ripple on the surface and Whamo!
Colors and types to matter a lot. Know where you are going to fish and what kinds of feed fish are in the body of water.
I really like the rainbow rapalas as a go-to lure. The DNR trains all the fish-eaters to chow down on little planter bows. So about everything will eat them.
On Deer Creek I catch SMB, LMB, Walleye and trout all with the same lure. Although oddly the Bass seem to like the jointed better and the trout seem to like the balsa floater.
On Strawberry yesterday I couldn't keep them off my downriggers at 25-35'.
One final note on speed... 2MPH is normally our top end speed. I catch a lot on my tube going perhaps 1.3MPH.
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