Last Night’s Report P2

I thought it was time for a fresh post and distract from the “P2 2Words” room…

The bite was last night was better than Thursday night for me. Although it was a bit breezy at times, I was excited to get out in the wind with the thought that the southerly wind might help some of the girls to help move up into the shallows a bit earlier than usual.

There were a good dozen cars at the ramp. It was nice to learn two new spots without having to fish WDs…I got one and we missed two more. Pretty slow for us overall…. Can still mark plenty of big fish hanging out in the 10-16 fow, they just never moved up. Was going to toss a sonar down to see if I could get them to hit, but didn’t. Anybody find these deeper girls hanging right off the break worthwhile trying for…or are they pretty inactive until they move up?

I always wished my depth finder was smart enough to identify what kind of fish I was seeing down there. It could be a lot of things. Carp, Buffalo, Walleyes ? It sure is exciting to see though.

Shot myself in the foot this weekend. I set the alarm for 4:30AM and woke to thunder and lightning. I should have gone out last night I guess.

Rootski

Little on the slow side for us last night to. Think we managed about a dozen fish. Hit a lot of spots picking up a fish or two right away and then missing bite after bite. Got to the point we didnt stay on any spot to long.

Looks like it will be a little breezy tonight. Have had some good bites on the front side of fronts moving threw. Have also had some nights where you wonder what the heck am I doing out here.

Similar results for me last night…LOTS of missed fish and short bites. Once I finnaly conected it was a dandy at 29″!
Those bigger fish are absolute thoroughbreads.

When I couldn’t take any more I thought I’ll try “one last spot” and what was going to be my last cast I stuck another nice fish, that was the first of 1/2 dozen and very positive way to end the evening.
The last pod of fish I found were extremely aggressive, grabbing the jigs and running.
All in all, could have been worse, a slow night ended in a fun hour of fishing.
I fish solo so unable to share any pics.
Be safe and enjoy the fishing!

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I always wished my depth finder was smart enough to identify what kind of fish I was seeing down there. It could be a lot of things. Carp, Buffalo, Walleyes ? It sure is exciting to see though.
Rootski

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That is true, we never can be 100% on the exact kind of fish shows up on the screen. Anybody being very experienced with their electronics, especially running dual HDSs with SC & DS can have a much higher degree of certainty of what kind of fish the marks are…. even if you run a 50×50 pixel screen you can at times be certain of what you are marking…

Fishing spots over and over again over the years, during different times of the season, one can easily see breaklines, where silt transitions to sand or sand to gravel or from some other substrate to a clam bed, now just add some nice arcs over these areas and a little time to catch these marks…using correlation and a little bit of Boolean theory , one can eventually have a high(er) degree of certainty of the make and model of fish they are seeing….even if we don’t actually have a photo showing their pearly whites and white tips.

I have seen many times where you can “see” eyes in a bit of deeper water, say 10-16 fow, I park the boat in about 8 fow and cast into 6 fow or less…and I can actually see the eyes transitioning from the deeper water as they pass under the boat and move up into the shallow water…..

“Catching the marks” and experience…I think one can be highly certain on what they are “seeing”

And yes…at times, my marks have been a white bass or cat….. But, the old “eyes should be here at this time of year, they have been here, they have to be here, oh there they are and then “wham” the fight is on”” happens more often than not….

There’s no substitute for experience, that’s for sure. Even if you are well versed in Boolean Algebra

Welcome to IDO!

Rootski

Some nights those deeper fish can go. Think it depends on the spot and history of it. We tried deeper last night on a couple of spots with out much luck. Missed a few deep. Usually do this running those jigs almost right back tot he boat. It does pay off at times.

I dont have side imaging but have seen it on the river. It does give some very impressive images. Seen it pick up individual clams shells and fish that are so tight to bottom you dont have a clue they are there with regular finder. Can very easily see how it could throw a new equation into looking for fish on the river. Heck at one time I thought GPS would only have limited application on the river. Wouldn’t even want to leave shore with out it now.

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Similar results for me last night…LOTS of missed fish and short bites. Once I finnaly conected it was a dandy at 29″!
Those bigger fish are absolute thoroughbreads.

When I couldn’t take any more I thought I’ll try “one last spot” and what was going to be my last cast I stuck another nice fish, that was the first of 1/2 dozen and very positive way to end the evening.
The last pod of fish I found were extremely aggressive, grabbing the jigs and running.
All in all, could have been worse, a slow night ended in a fun hour of fishing.
I fish solo so unable to share any pics.
Be safe and enjoy the fishing!

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Way to go on the 29″. Thats a nice fish.

I really peeled ’em last night. Did good on numbers and size. Lots of hogs. Favorite fish of the night was a fish just under 25″ that weighed 7lb. 9oz. Unbelievable belly on that thing, woulda put the prize state fair pig to shame. Just a blimp.

Was also on the slow side for us last night. We didn’t get out until well after dark but still managed to find a few fish here and there. We landed close to a dozen with our big fish at 27″.

We also bounced around alot after getting fish right away before moving on.

Been experiementing with minnow imatation stickbaits this Fall and had some luck with them last night.