Great Day Of Fall Bronze...

[Guest]

Nice!

[Chief Grey Bear]

Under 3" diameter red/white bobbers.

I keep telling you to use the quill type!

[LarrySTL]

I hear the florescent yellow bobbers are better.

[SmallyWally]

Thanks for sharing !!!

[joeD]

Question: Would you fellas have had the same result, or success rate, fishing out of a canoe? In other words, was having a jetboat part of your success? Difference maker?

(Remove knowing where to go and what to use from this equation. That is assumed).

Splendid report and outcome. Enjoyed it sirs.

(Envy and jealousy coursing through veins. Must. Stop. It.)

[Mitch f]

Question: Would you fellas have had the same result, or success rate, fishing out of a canoe? In other words, was having a jetboat part of your success? Difference maker?

(Remove knowing where to go and what to use from this equation. That is assumed).

Splendid report and outcome. Enjoyed it sirs.

(Envy and jealousy coursing through veins. Must. Stop. It.)

With a jet boat you have the ability to zoom past unproductive water, which becomes more important the colder the water temps get. Another factor is you feel less fatigued during the day, which improves your attitude and resolve to keep fishing. And for me, since I'm mostly a jig fisherman, I can fish standing and pitch a jig into a spot and have the jig land softly, which is nearly impossible for me from a sitting position.

[Al Agnew]

I agree with Mitch. I use a jetboat basically from October through March, and ONLY during that time, with rare exceptions. Where other anglers winterize their boats, I'd have to summerize mine. Why? Well, like Mitch said, you can skip over a lot of unproductive water to get to the scattered and limited cold weather fish holding pools. Once you get there, you can control the boat better with the trolling motor than you can a canoe. It's safer and more stable in cold water and weather. And one more very important thing...it's very difficult to find a shuttle provider in the winter. On some river sections, there either aren't canoe rentals or the businesses are closed for the season.

So yeah, you'll probably catch more fish with the jetboat in cool to cold weather. On the other hand, IF you could get the canoe to those spots, there are benefits to the canoe as opposed to the jetboat. With the jetboat, you sit up much higher and are more visible to the fish in clear water. The trolling motor noise may scare some fish. You're mostly fishing fairly slow water, so controlling the canoe isn't too difficult.

But overall the jetboat is far more practical in cold weather. However...I'll probably catch a lot more fish during the summer with the canoe, if for no other reason than that I'm not limited in the waters I can fish, and I can go places too small for jetboats, where the fish see less pressure.

[Gavin]

Definite yes. We covered a ton of water, and we were able to make more casts than you could ever get in while canoe fishing. Mitch's skill on the troller played a part too...Windier than heck but we were able to work over the good spots thoroughly.

[joeD]

GODDAMMIT!

NO MOTOR NO FISH!

SPEAK CLEARLY SON!!!

[Guest]

good lord, those are nice fish!