12-06-2014, 04:30 AM
Well, I had some time to fish today, so I decided to stay local and invited a buddy and my uncle to try for some whitefish.
We got out of the marina by 8:15 and made the run across the lake to Cisco beach. When I got over there some other BFT members were already on the scene. Skunkedagain and ntrl-brn-rebel were hard at it.
My second cast resulted in a hard bump and a tough fighting 19 1/2" whitefish. It was game on after that. The fishing wasn't insane fast, but it was consistent. We caught our limits of whitefish between the three of us and we also all caught a cutthroat or two.
The cool moment of the day was when my uncle was reeling in a 10" whitefish and out of the blue a 24-25" cutthroat chased it and grabbed it at the surface! It refused to let go of the whitefish and after he had a tug of war with it for a minute it was apparent that it wasn't going to give it up so I netted it and released the cutt back to terrorize more whitefish[
]. That whitefish was mangled, hehe!
The winning lure combo of the day was a 1/8 ounce yellow jig head with orange eyes and a 1 1/2"-2" black and sparkle curly tail body tipped with a small bit of crawler. 8-15' of water and jigged vertically right on the bottom to 2" above the bottom. The bites were very light and I don't think anything heavier than 6 pound test line will work well for this kind of fishing.
It was nice visiting with everyone as we fished and everyone at least caught a few. Beautiful day to fish also.
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We got out of the marina by 8:15 and made the run across the lake to Cisco beach. When I got over there some other BFT members were already on the scene. Skunkedagain and ntrl-brn-rebel were hard at it.
My second cast resulted in a hard bump and a tough fighting 19 1/2" whitefish. It was game on after that. The fishing wasn't insane fast, but it was consistent. We caught our limits of whitefish between the three of us and we also all caught a cutthroat or two.
The cool moment of the day was when my uncle was reeling in a 10" whitefish and out of the blue a 24-25" cutthroat chased it and grabbed it at the surface! It refused to let go of the whitefish and after he had a tug of war with it for a minute it was apparent that it wasn't going to give it up so I netted it and released the cutt back to terrorize more whitefish[
]. That whitefish was mangled, hehe!The winning lure combo of the day was a 1/8 ounce yellow jig head with orange eyes and a 1 1/2"-2" black and sparkle curly tail body tipped with a small bit of crawler. 8-15' of water and jigged vertically right on the bottom to 2" above the bottom. The bites were very light and I don't think anything heavier than 6 pound test line will work well for this kind of fishing.
It was nice visiting with everyone as we fished and everyone at least caught a few. Beautiful day to fish also.
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