dan hufferd Posted March 31, 2018 Posted March 31, 2018 Steve and I started out in the late morning looking for crappie, I also wanted try some new areas. After much driving and casting without out a fish, we thought that surely we could get into that full moon jerk bait action up top....Nearing night fall now we both have dislocated our shoulders and nothing, I thought, hey, I will just throw this swimbait out into the deep and drag it back to the boat, while Steve continues to throw his shoulder out of socket at the bank. Something happened as I dragged the bait over junk 30 feet or so on the bottom, crap I'm hung up, no wait it was a fish ! I sure wish I had figured this out sooner. Have you ever thought that? I know you have. I really wanted a walleye, so it was back to the stickbait a couple casts later on the second jerk wham-o a little 16 inch walleye, not the 10 lber I was looking for but I will take it. Feeling rejuvenated we both began throwing our arms off again without success, It was at least 1 hour after sunset when we bugged out. As we moved off the bank over deep water (45 feet +) we did start seeing large marks on the graph. I wonder if the night bite got better later? Good luck out there, there is always something to learn. Even though this day was REALLY tough, I spent it with a great friend, and that is good ! I am blessed ! God bless everyone on this Easter weekend ! This post has been promoted to an article oghfm, gurzik, liphunter and 3 others 6
Dutch Posted March 31, 2018 Posted March 31, 2018 I started out in the early morning looking for an A rig bite. Put in at State Park and fished close by. Good keeper in just a few casts. 2 hours later no more bites. I ran up the river above High Pt. Fished a lot of good looking stuff with Arig, rock crawler, jig, and spinner bait. Not one bite so I moved back down to clear water and started fishing a new craw that I made. I had one on in about 15 fow but it came unbuttoned. I went back to the Arig for another hour then pulled out the little guy. I had a nice keeper on the first cast and though "game on". Not so, I never had another bite. I left frustrated in mid afternoon to go mow the yard. I did not talk to anyone but had to wait in line to load as half the parking lot had decided to go home also. Let's see pre spawn cold front blue bird sky not many bites, I wonder if there is a pattern there?
dan hufferd Posted March 31, 2018 Author Posted March 31, 2018 49 minutes ago, Dutch said: I started out in the early morning looking for an A rig bite. Put in at State Park and fished close by. Good keeper in just a few casts. 2 hours later no more bites. I ran up the river above High Pt. Fished a lot of good looking stuff with Arig, rock crawler, jig, and spinner bait. Not one bite so I moved back down to clear water and started fishing a new craw that I made. I had one on in about 15 fow but it came unbuttoned. I went back to the Arig for another hour then pulled out the little guy. I had a nice keeper on the first cast and though "game on". Not so, I never had another bite. I left frustrated in mid afternoon to go mow the yard. I did not talk to anyone but had to wait in line to load as half the parking lot had decided to go home also. Let's see pre spawn cold front blue bird sky not many bites, I wonder if there is a pattern there? I don't know ?? It was one of those " I think I will sell my boat" days for me. here is my thinking...maybe when there is a large influx of water or a major temperature change, the fish, maybe all fish go into a shock as they adjust to changing water conditions, after their bodies adjust for a day or so, they stay on the bottom. Or the suckers feed all night in the bushes under a full moon. now they are full in the day. I think I followed the same path you did on the lake, thinking warmer water down south would yield more fish....not so.
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