Kim City - Feb 20 - Deep bite and shallow A-Rig

[Dock-in-it]

The deep bite fizzled out for me around Feb 10th and afterwards even when you found the shad in a good location there were no fish. I fished this morning and tried the A-Rig and caught some nice fish. I had a nice limit by 7:30 and then a few more good ones around 9:00. After 9AM the sun came out and I did not catch another fish. I kept the boat in 30 FOW and cast to 12ft and did not fish around trees. Today, the fish were bunched up and if I got bit I just milked the area. There may be a suspended/tree bit but I did not try it. The fish can be caught on textbook locations and non-textbook locations as well. The strong north wind limited my options and I did not see another boat. Lately the Mill creek ramp has several rigs and today there were none. For those of us still going thru the learning curve, the A-Rig is the best February education tool that exist.

[abkeenan]

Nice report. Some VERY nice fish there.

[dwiebenga]

Nice fish!  Can not wait to get back on the water.

[Bill Babler]

Great fish and congrats for braving the temps and wind today.  I guess in the morning its going to be Ice Water World.

[Mitch f]

Now that’s some fish!

[Quillback]

Those are some nice fish!  Gives me inspiration to get back out there again, but it is going to have to warm up a bit.