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Thinking about trolling saturday night from sundown to 1 am or so. Never done it before and just hoping for a few tips.
I will put out this disclaimer that may help or hinder me getting some tips:
I will absolutely not keep any big trout I catch, especially browns.
I cannot say the same for any walleye though.
If any other boaters want to gang up in the name of safety maybe we can meet and all get on the same channel and look out for each other when it gets dark.
Thanks, Shane
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I have had better luck casting glowing jigs on the bigger points this time of year than I ever did trolling.
This time of the year the best cover in the lake are the rocky shorelines and alot of the fish move in to find food making trolling kind of tough but casting worked great. Take some time and a light and look at all of the baby fish and the crayfish out crawling around after dark and it becomes easy to see why the fish move up to feed there at night.
Tip the jig with a bit of worm and hold on. We have sat and caught both rainbows and walleye at the same time working the jigs down along the drop offs of the points. Some of the trout were pushing five pounds.
Have never tried trolling for trout this time of the year but I would imagine that working around where the Provo flows in would work. I just don't actively chase trout anymore. I catch to way to many of them while chasing other fish.
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[cool][#0000ff]This is the time of year when the combination of warm surface water temps and noisy daytime water activity (power squadron) drives a lot of fish to become more nocturnal. I have not fished Deer Creek at night in some time but know others who do. Trout are surprisingly active feeders after dark. Used to catch a lot on flies and shallow running cranks at night. More rainbows than browns. Still a bit warm for near surface action for them and they stay deeper until cooler fall temps.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Walleyes are where you find them. With the falling water levels they will either be feeding very shallow, around the rocks, chowing down on crawdads, sunfish, baby bass and perchlets...or cruising deep looking for bigger perch and silly trout that are disoriented. Smaller 'eyes will be shallow and bigger ones deeper...until the water cools.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]There may even be some walleyes cruising at mid depth...like they do in Starvation. I saw some marks on sonar the other day that were not likely all trout or carp...hanging at mid depth in 35 feet of water. Didn't really have the gear to work them right and they didn't hit a vertical presentation. You might try sending down some noisy deep diving cranks to see what they can stir up.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Kind of a transition time right now. Late for summer and early for fall. [/#0000ff]
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I second that... went to DC at night the other week caught a bunch of decent smb more than usual
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Do you guys carry a decent flashlight at night? or would a headlamp be better since I would have one hand on the trolling moter.
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Fished Dc today from the shore along the island's rocky edges. Caught 17 SM and took 5 home, also got 16 perch for the fryer. A couple of good size ones. From 6am to 10am.
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