Fallriverguy
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The fishing Saturday at Wickiup was the best I have experienced. I stared fishing at first light and had my limit by 2:30. I picked up a few fish on a variety of lures, but the money lure was a pink/white Hoochie Thing behind a 5 inch RMT UV dodger. Below is a more detailed summary from Sunday.
I had to go back Sunday to see if the fish were still on the bite. I launched the boat at 5:30 in building snow showers and headed back to the Davis arm and stared fishing in 35 – 20 feet of water. The chartreuses hoochie and green Wild Thing dodger that worked the day before in the morning was the first to get water time. Getting a handful of strikes in 20 minutes confirmed it was a good choice. The hot bite lasted about 45 minutes. I had a heck of a time keeping these fish hooked. There were lots of LDR. These fish would hit and be jumping or tail walking across the water and be gone. This trend continued almost all day long. I am fairly sure I lost more fish than I landed.
The Hoochie Thing that worked so well the day before caught some fish, but not like the day before. I also picked up fish on radical glow tubes, a green wedding ring, and red, pink and orange hoochies. I used a variety of dodger that include the bigger sling blade type, crystal basin wild things and 0000 Seps watermelon dodger. The lures were either tipped with corn or maggots, or a combination of the two, but at day’s end I was back to just maggots.
Again I fished shallow and caught most fish in less than 30 feet of water and lots came in 16 feet of water. Since it was dark and gloomy I fish mostly at 5 feet with a 50 foot set-back. At one point it was snowing so hard I could not see the shore in any direction. At least the wind did not kick up while it was snowing.
I stopped fishing about 12:30 with 19 fish. The biggest was 16.25 inches and most were between 14 and 15 inches.
Here is the result of processing the catch from Saturday.
This is Sundays catch.
I had to go back Sunday to see if the fish were still on the bite. I launched the boat at 5:30 in building snow showers and headed back to the Davis arm and stared fishing in 35 – 20 feet of water. The chartreuses hoochie and green Wild Thing dodger that worked the day before in the morning was the first to get water time. Getting a handful of strikes in 20 minutes confirmed it was a good choice. The hot bite lasted about 45 minutes. I had a heck of a time keeping these fish hooked. There were lots of LDR. These fish would hit and be jumping or tail walking across the water and be gone. This trend continued almost all day long. I am fairly sure I lost more fish than I landed.
The Hoochie Thing that worked so well the day before caught some fish, but not like the day before. I also picked up fish on radical glow tubes, a green wedding ring, and red, pink and orange hoochies. I used a variety of dodger that include the bigger sling blade type, crystal basin wild things and 0000 Seps watermelon dodger. The lures were either tipped with corn or maggots, or a combination of the two, but at day’s end I was back to just maggots.
Again I fished shallow and caught most fish in less than 30 feet of water and lots came in 16 feet of water. Since it was dark and gloomy I fish mostly at 5 feet with a 50 foot set-back. At one point it was snowing so hard I could not see the shore in any direction. At least the wind did not kick up while it was snowing.
I stopped fishing about 12:30 with 19 fish. The biggest was 16.25 inches and most were between 14 and 15 inches.
Here is the result of processing the catch from Saturday.
This is Sundays catch.
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