06-18-2016, 12:54 AM
Went by myself to porcupine monday and today. It was slooooow. I ended up with 2 kokes monday after 4 hours, and 4 kokes and oddly one small brown today after 7 hours. Brown was caught near the inlet using squid and dodger [crazy] I need to ask you guys a few questions, but first here's is what I used.
-times- monday 9am-1pm. Today 6:30am-2pm
- pink and glow in dark/pink squids. Fish favoured the glow squids. The glow squids had red hooks. Pink squids were tied with regular gamagatsu.
- Dodgers in pink and white, nickle and chartreuse, all nickle, and nickle and copper. Dodger color didn't make a difference. Fish still prefered red hooked squid.
-trolled .5-1 mph. Fish were hitting at .5. I saw others troll at the speed of light and watched them land a couple.
-fished in 20, 30, 40, and 50 ft deep. 30 produced the most hits.
- set back lengths after downrigger weight ranged from 6-50 ft. This also didn't seem to make much difference between these distances. I got hits and caught fish 30 ft down 6 ft out the same as 50 ft out. I should also note I troll in my pontoon using nothing but oars and arm muscles for propulsion. Makes me wonder if setback lengths make any difference more me at all due to the fact I don't have a rumbling gas motor.
I had about 10 other hits that fell off as soon as I pulled the line out of the quick release. Frustrating to say the least. I couldn't even get them to the boat so I could lose them there. I learned some time ago that ultra light rods help keep fish on As you play them in, but I couldn't even play with these ones.
I cut open the guts and found lots of micro invertebrates, and a few blood worms. Also, the reservoir is completely full.
So here's the Qs
Has any body else had it rough at porky lately?
How am I losing fish so quickly? Could it be really small Fish?
Have any of you fished with bare hooks. I read somewhere that it works well. Perhaps red hooks, pulsing after a dodger, imitates blood worms?
Pink colors always worked well for me before. What other colors work there?
Could these fish be feeding at night?
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-times- monday 9am-1pm. Today 6:30am-2pm
- pink and glow in dark/pink squids. Fish favoured the glow squids. The glow squids had red hooks. Pink squids were tied with regular gamagatsu.
- Dodgers in pink and white, nickle and chartreuse, all nickle, and nickle and copper. Dodger color didn't make a difference. Fish still prefered red hooked squid.
-trolled .5-1 mph. Fish were hitting at .5. I saw others troll at the speed of light and watched them land a couple.
-fished in 20, 30, 40, and 50 ft deep. 30 produced the most hits.
- set back lengths after downrigger weight ranged from 6-50 ft. This also didn't seem to make much difference between these distances. I got hits and caught fish 30 ft down 6 ft out the same as 50 ft out. I should also note I troll in my pontoon using nothing but oars and arm muscles for propulsion. Makes me wonder if setback lengths make any difference more me at all due to the fact I don't have a rumbling gas motor.
I had about 10 other hits that fell off as soon as I pulled the line out of the quick release. Frustrating to say the least. I couldn't even get them to the boat so I could lose them there. I learned some time ago that ultra light rods help keep fish on As you play them in, but I couldn't even play with these ones.
I cut open the guts and found lots of micro invertebrates, and a few blood worms. Also, the reservoir is completely full.
So here's the Qs
Has any body else had it rough at porky lately?
How am I losing fish so quickly? Could it be really small Fish?
Have any of you fished with bare hooks. I read somewhere that it works well. Perhaps red hooks, pulsing after a dodger, imitates blood worms?
Pink colors always worked well for me before. What other colors work there?
Could these fish be feeding at night?
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