10-28-2006, 02:09 AM
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 2][#002850]Fished Bear Lake today with SpiderWelder. To get to the point real quick, we got skunked. Last time I fished Bear Lake (a couple weeks ago) I caught a nice 11 lber. I guess I have been feeling a little too snooty since and today I was truly humbled back down to earth.
We launched at 7:15 and was jigging the rockpile by 7:30. Found some nice spots marking lots of fish traffic at 54 feet deep. Around 11:00 the traffic left so we did too. We decided to give a couple of Jet Divers a try and trolled some Flat Fish for about an hour and a half. But nada. However, I did kind of like trolling with the divers.
Around 12:30 we found another good place at about 60 feet deep with plenty of fish stacked up and lots of fish traffic. Anchored up for some more jigging but to no avail. There were still plenty of fish in that area when we said to heck with it and left at 3:30. Buy day’s end, we each had only two hits all day!
Boy, I sure can’t blame the skunk on not finding fish. We marked plenty. Every tactic I tried to jig up a catch was laughed at by them fish.
I hope you guys going up this weekend have better scores than we did. I would suggest you have some swim baits or Fin-S with you. I suspect that will do much better than the standard tube jigs right now.
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We launched at 7:15 and was jigging the rockpile by 7:30. Found some nice spots marking lots of fish traffic at 54 feet deep. Around 11:00 the traffic left so we did too. We decided to give a couple of Jet Divers a try and trolled some Flat Fish for about an hour and a half. But nada. However, I did kind of like trolling with the divers.
Around 12:30 we found another good place at about 60 feet deep with plenty of fish stacked up and lots of fish traffic. Anchored up for some more jigging but to no avail. There were still plenty of fish in that area when we said to heck with it and left at 3:30. Buy day’s end, we each had only two hits all day!
Boy, I sure can’t blame the skunk on not finding fish. We marked plenty. Every tactic I tried to jig up a catch was laughed at by them fish.
I hope you guys going up this weekend have better scores than we did. I would suggest you have some swim baits or Fin-S with you. I suspect that will do much better than the standard tube jigs right now.
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