| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 205.1 | Still a tough time... | CANDY::MERCURIO | | Thu Oct 16 1986 13:48 | 40 |
| Well I for one am still fishing even though things have slowed down
a bit. I was up on Winni. this weekend in a tournament launching
out of Lee's Mills. I found fish throughout the day scattered anywhere
from 8" to over 25 feet of water. In the morning it was foggy until
9:45 AM (very typical for this time of the year) so I found fishing
very limited to area's that I could find with the compass or by
sh__ luck. We had 2 weigh-ins at 11:00 and the last at 4:30 PM.
The fish were't very cooperative and were striking spinner baits
and missing even though the rate of retieve was slowed to a crawl.
I ended up putting 2 trailer hooks on and started catching fish.
I boated 3 bass (6 lbs 2oz total) in the morning by fishing weed lines
with big rocks near by next to 20+ ft of water. This seemed to be
the ticket for the morning. In the afternoon I couldn't get a fish
to even strike for the first 1 hour and 1/2. I decided to change what
I was doing and look for the old stand by, docks... They had to
be very close to deep water ( the bass are now starting to locate
themselves near their deep water haunts for the winter) and managed
to boat 5 bass by 2:30 PM one of which weighed 5 lbs 4 oz (thank
God). I got 3 on jig n'pig and the others on a spinner bait. By
the way a 5+ lb bass looks awful wierd 3" behind the skirt of spinner
bait on the 3rd hook (talk about your basic, heart pounding experiences).
Well I finished in first place for the day with 18 lb 6oz and came
in first place in my club with 76 lbs 8oz for the year. Well I hate
to toot my own horn but no one else caught a limit for the afternoon
weigh-in, in fact, out of 8 guys in the club, 4 got skunked, one
got 3 bass, one got 2 bass and one (this guy was in first place
comming into the tournament) only caught 1 small, small mouth with
only 4 bass for the day. I guess I did OK... By the way, the spinner
bait I was using was a Blue Fox, white skirt with #5 gold willow leaf and
a small hammered copper Colorado. Not only does it move slowly for
in cold water, but it has a flash that is fantastic in the water. Of course
the 2nd trailer hook made the big difference (ya gotta do what
ya gotta do). Oh well I guess I said enough...
Here's hoping it's gona
get better
Jim
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| 205.2 | Winter is NO Fun....... | TORA::SCHOLZ | Ron....and thanks for all the fish | Thu Oct 16 1986 14:26 | 20 |
| I wish that I could share Jim's wish for it to get better, BUT I
don't think it will improve any till next spring. Right now Jim's
baits, expecially the spinner, worked deep and slow with a trailer
seem the best shot. I like deep diving crank baits in dark colors
worked in 12-15ft of water. Big baits seem the best with a wide
wobble (deep 'N' type). Depending on the lake structure, I would
work the sharp drops near 5-10ft structure. West side of the lake
and on the edge. Nothing really new here. The bass ALWAYS relates
to structure, so all you have to do is find where the marriage is
occuring. There has to be a path way for the fish to deep water.
This has to been connected by structure. I wouldn't brother with
the areas unconnected to deep water by rocks, weed lines, or timber.
That really covers a lot of water, but can eliminate a lot also.
Next month start jigging with spoons or vertical jigs, as they will
be on their winter ground.
No live-bait now..........:^)
Tight lines, Ron
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| 205.3 | DEEP LAKES OR BETTER... | CANDY::MERCURIO | | Fri Oct 17 1986 10:32 | 16 |
| I had another thought which I'd like to pass on. Over the years
I've found that deeper lakes and ponds are more active during this
time of year moreso than the shallower ones. Although you can catch them
in the shallow lakes, I guess the deeper ones are more stable and
offer consistant bass'n in a changing weather situations. But in
any case, working the baits slow is in order. This means covering
the areas carefully, purposefully, and tight to what ever your fishing.
These fish aren't going to chase anything very far. I'm sure the
short strikes I experienced were from bass that really wanted to
get that bait but physically couldn't.
Remember, Slow and Precise, above all
KEEP AT IT
Jim
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| 205.4 | COOL TIP | JAWS::WIERSUM | | Tue Oct 21 1986 14:22 | 17 |
|
Just a quik one. Last sunday my neibor talked me into some early
morning trout fishing. Now is that jig and pig or texxas rigged
plastic worms? No, that little tiny stuff with line you can barely
see. We were on the ware river at 6:45 that's AM. I nooticced that
when i would throw the bail that the line would come off the reel
but that the small Meps would stay at the end of the rod. oh, i
see there is a ball of ice at the rod tip. this is really fun i
said several times. i almost began to believe it.
i'll wait till spring when real fishing starts again
at least we didn't have to deal with a trailer
garry (waitin till spring)
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