Went out on pool 2 again. I hadn’t fished it for about a week and during the week, the river level dropped nearly another foot. I went and tried all my tried-n-true spots. Although we did hook into six eyes, the fishing was slower for me and took quite a bit of time re-learning what they want and where they liked to hang out again. Unless I fish it consistently, it is hard to for me to keep my finger on the pulse of what is going on out there. With the river slowing down it seams and levels slowly lowering, some current seams are harder to pick out. When trolling, say at 1.7mph on gps, if I slid out further from shore, I would find the speed slow to say, 1.5-1.6mph, and if I cut into shore, speed would increase to 1.8-2.0…given the same rpm. This was the only way for me to determine where the seam was…there were no bubbles, cotton, leaves, debris, etc or surface irregularity to visually see the seam…at least this was the way in some of the spots I fished. Other spots it was easier to see the seam. Nonetheless, after a while, the first fish was accidentally hooked in deeper water when I wasn’t paying attention and slipped into deeper water. One of those ‘look what I found’ hookups. But, this is where this speed decrease was noted. It was tougher fishing…time to stop messing around with trolling and start more pitching as I saw quite a few marks associating more with WDs…back out on Friday.
July 30, 2014 at 3:36 pm
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