11-08-2015, 04:44 AM
[font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000][size 4]Ron C. (FishNCoach) and I decided to fish the Berry today. We drove over to Renegade to fish some of my favorite spots now that the water temperatures are down and the fantastic fall fishing should be on.
We arrived at Renegade where we ran into JiggyJus10 and his fishing buddy launching their boat. Good to see you again my old friend.
The dock has been pulled out of the water at Renegade now so launching from the muddy bank is a little bit of a challenge.
Once we launched, we buzzed way over to the east side … one of my favorite spots this time of year. We couldn't find any fish on the finder and no bites.
So we left there and went over to the entrance to the south narrows channel. I figured it would be good there because there were already several boats in the area. After an hour, they all left because there was no action. We finally left too.
We buzzed down to one of my favorite points east of the marina … nada!
I'm thinking , MAN, what the heck has happened to all my great fall fishing holes???
Well, I run over to Horse creek … they for sure will be there … nada!!!
By this time, it's 10:30 and we ain't got a single bite yet! I was feeling kind of dumb having bragged to Ron about how good the fishing is at the Berry this time of year.
But I still had one more place to try. We pulled up on that spot and seen one fish on the finder so we anchored up and got to fishing … BINGO!!! For the next five hours, we caught fish nearly every cast! If we didn't hook one, we at least got bites. Well, that's not totally true, there were a couple of times that we went 15 minutes without a bite. But never in my life have I had such a stellar day of fishing for trout. We had about 20 doubles, 3 rainbows, and 2 slot busters. By the time the battery ran dead on my i-Pilot (virtual anchor) at 3:30, Ron had landed 55 fish and I had landed 71! That's 126 fish between two guys in one day!
Now I don't blame you at all if you don't believe me, but it is true and I will never forget it. It beat my previous record of 103 fish between 3 fishermen a few years ago in Horse Creek.
We destroyed lots of tubes and jig heads. We used up 3 bags of cut chub, and my back was glad we finally stopped when we did!
We didn't catch many jigging right under the boat. Most of them came in by casting way out, letting the jig drop to the bottom, and SLOWLY reeling it in. I assumed our lures were on the bottom. Once the line got to about a 45° angle, fish on! One after another after another after another.
Again, we just used a white tube jig tipped with chub slathered with Pro-Cure Anchovy supper jell. The more and fresher the chub, the sooner they would bite.
Sorry about going on and on about this but man, what a day!
The afternoon brought strong breezes and big waves. Once again, I was impressed how well my i-Pilot performed. I LOVE that tool. The big waves didn't seem to put much of a damper on the fishing though.
Many many times, when bringing in a hooked fish, one, two, and sometimes three fish would be following it trying to take the bait out of the caught fish's mouth. I've seen that a few times in the past but not as often as today.
It's cold in the mornings there. Heck, it was cold all day for that matter. It was 18° when we arrived. And the water temperature was 47°. Kept our hoodies up all day. I was dressed with the same cold weather gear as when I go ice fishing. Glad I did. But the fishing sure was hot!
--- Coot ---[/font]
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We arrived at Renegade where we ran into JiggyJus10 and his fishing buddy launching their boat. Good to see you again my old friend.
The dock has been pulled out of the water at Renegade now so launching from the muddy bank is a little bit of a challenge.
Once we launched, we buzzed way over to the east side … one of my favorite spots this time of year. We couldn't find any fish on the finder and no bites.
So we left there and went over to the entrance to the south narrows channel. I figured it would be good there because there were already several boats in the area. After an hour, they all left because there was no action. We finally left too.
We buzzed down to one of my favorite points east of the marina … nada!
I'm thinking , MAN, what the heck has happened to all my great fall fishing holes???
Well, I run over to Horse creek … they for sure will be there … nada!!!
By this time, it's 10:30 and we ain't got a single bite yet! I was feeling kind of dumb having bragged to Ron about how good the fishing is at the Berry this time of year.
But I still had one more place to try. We pulled up on that spot and seen one fish on the finder so we anchored up and got to fishing … BINGO!!! For the next five hours, we caught fish nearly every cast! If we didn't hook one, we at least got bites. Well, that's not totally true, there were a couple of times that we went 15 minutes without a bite. But never in my life have I had such a stellar day of fishing for trout. We had about 20 doubles, 3 rainbows, and 2 slot busters. By the time the battery ran dead on my i-Pilot (virtual anchor) at 3:30, Ron had landed 55 fish and I had landed 71! That's 126 fish between two guys in one day!
Now I don't blame you at all if you don't believe me, but it is true and I will never forget it. It beat my previous record of 103 fish between 3 fishermen a few years ago in Horse Creek.
We destroyed lots of tubes and jig heads. We used up 3 bags of cut chub, and my back was glad we finally stopped when we did!
We didn't catch many jigging right under the boat. Most of them came in by casting way out, letting the jig drop to the bottom, and SLOWLY reeling it in. I assumed our lures were on the bottom. Once the line got to about a 45° angle, fish on! One after another after another after another.
Again, we just used a white tube jig tipped with chub slathered with Pro-Cure Anchovy supper jell. The more and fresher the chub, the sooner they would bite.
Sorry about going on and on about this but man, what a day!
The afternoon brought strong breezes and big waves. Once again, I was impressed how well my i-Pilot performed. I LOVE that tool. The big waves didn't seem to put much of a damper on the fishing though.
Many many times, when bringing in a hooked fish, one, two, and sometimes three fish would be following it trying to take the bait out of the caught fish's mouth. I've seen that a few times in the past but not as often as today.
It's cold in the mornings there. Heck, it was cold all day for that matter. It was 18° when we arrived. And the water temperature was 47°. Kept our hoodies up all day. I was dressed with the same cold weather gear as when I go ice fishing. Glad I did. But the fishing sure was hot!
--- Coot ---[/font]
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