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Got an early start, using the ramp at Cottonwood. Second boat in. Tried finding fish at Jack's Creek with no success, so went back to Cottonwood and found plenty of fish at 15 feet, off the ramp. They shut down around 10:30, so we moved to the narrows, and found constant action, drifting in 15-40 feet of water. You have to wade through lots of dinks to find "mediums", but it was fun getting bites non-stop. You always graph tons of fish there, but I've never seen such a mass of fish as now. The Humminbird was showing false depth readings they were so thick. Caught bass, crappie, perch, buegill, and pumpkinseeds. The fish weren't playing by the rules....the crappie seemed to like a bit of worm, and the perch were favoring a red/white jig with a power bait maggot! I'd rather be catching the nicer Cascade perch, but Strike would be terrific for a fun day with the kids. Mike
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Good report, any size too any of the crappies or gills? perch got a couple years and they will be awesome....
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Hey Matt,
You can pretty much say the same for all three species. Give 'em a year or two! I am always amazed by the people who keep the dinks. I have asked the last two people who were keeping everything. One was keeping them for catfish bait, and the other uses them to feed their many house cats! They had about 150 perch in their cooler, according to them. My suggestion....get rid of some cats!! So, have you hit Cascade recently? Mike
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I was catching big crappies off jacks creek with cranks while bass fishing. I have noticed there are not as many small perch as this spring. Maybe the bass about have them ate. Lots of big schools of something on my graphs also. The bass are deeper but they come up to pig out. I've noticed the same boats in the same spots for weeks and sometimes they have on 2 small fish at a time going into a bucket. What the hell it's their lake too. I tell them the big bass are so full of mercury and eating them will make their stiffer not peck up. The marina at cottonwood is full of small crappie and bluegills, there were some kids having a blast in there the other day.
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Went out on Friday. I have only fished CJ once and that was early spring late winter. Had a blast and landed a lot of big fish. Basically straight across from the Air Force ramp. Will be going back again for sure. We were using just a simple Texas rigged finesse work watermelon red flake. Can not wait to go back.
After reading some posts on here about how pushy people can be out there I was still skeptical. Well the people proved me wrong. Apparently we were in a guys spot for his perch. Instead of finding somewhere else he decided to continue to circle us until we left. I was amazed and had never experienced that before. Its not like it is a small reservoir. Kind of shocked me really.
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We call that spot the new duck blind. Sometimes there are big largemouth there to, kinda an added bonus. I used to get stressed out about getting crowded, but ya can't fix stupid. If ya catch their line enough they leave. Looks like the sturgeon fellas did well up river.
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Took the girlfriend to CJ sunday. We each caught around 35 hand sized crappie a few perch, and she caught her first keeper bass...
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I hit it over the 4th for a very short time, caught some nice smallies, 1 good perch, I will come Nov, after the hunting season,