Cold Weather Fishin'

[ten_scoach]

Interesting. Wonder if the crappie guys had the same experience. I wanted to go beat the brush piles today but work prevailed. Guess I made the right choice!

[blue79]

Interesting. Wonder if the crappie guys had the same experience. I wanted to go beat the brush piles today but work prevailed. Guess I made the right choice!

I went to the marina and checked on my boat and jigged my brushpiles at the dock and didnt catch anything.two other guys on the dock said they caught a couple bass but no crappie.

[ten_scoach]

Hmmm. Interesting. Thanks for the feedback!!

[Dutch]

I did crappie fish and talked with a couple of other guys who did the same. I couldn't catch any morning fish. It wasn't until the white caps started that I found them. I wound up with 13 keeper crappie and 1 keeper walleye. My fish were 32-36 feet deep just off the bottom. One guy had 11 keepers which he got in 22-26 fow. His was also an afternoon bite. A couple of other guys had 22-23 keepers which they caught early and said they were deeper than 45 feet.

So much for a pattern.

[powerdive]

Target species: we caught several decent walleyes and 9 very nice crappies on droposffs at 28-42 feet. Non-target species: caught a ton of sizable whites, which made for a fun break in a cove after the wind pushed us off our mainlake spots). The funny thing was the four 15-17 inch bass we caught. It's rare for us to get more than one greenus carpus a day on the deep spoons and Raps.

[Walcrabass]

Interesting posts from everyone. Especially about thinking that someone killed the fish on a particular day. I study things deeper than I probably should. I take note of weather, wind, barometer, etc and one would think you could make some pretty good predictions about the fish biting. Don't get me wrong it does pay to fish under certain conditions and times of the year. But here is the fact. The fish do just what they want....period. You can have the same exact conditions for days in a row and one day you can kill them and another day cannot get a bite. My greatest suspicion is that between them being cold blooded and also having an air bladder that they suffer or profit from things that we don't even notice. My greatest advice to all fishermen is simply this......don't let your superior mind put you on a track to failure when fishing. Be versatile, be flexible. think outside of what your "Superior Mind" tells you the fish ought to be doing at a given time. If you don't you will find them swimming around doing what they want and yourself fishing and just thinking they aren't biting.

If you have ever watched fish in an aquarium that don't feel good or are scared they usually do one thing. Find the bottom. They feel safer and can take a rest on an object. Keep that in mind when you think of Bass Fishing and remember the Jigs. I have used this philosophy for years and have been very successful by doing so. An old friend of mine that has been gone for several years used to tell me, "Kid, there ain't a fish in the world that can't be caught on a Jig". He was very close to 100% correct.

So there is 2 cents worth from ancient old Walcrabass again. Good luck with the Winter fishing guys. Keep the life jackets on.