Geneva Reports

[Dr.Ed]

Sherman, sorry I missed you. I think I was working the same area as you. Would you care to elaborate on the methods that worked for you? In the past 2 weeks talking to various fishermen, no one had a limit and many had no fish at all.

[sherman51]

Sherman, sorry I missed you. I think I was working the same area as you. Would you care to elaborate on the methods that worked for you? In the past 2 weeks talking to various fishermen, no one had a limit and many had no fish at all.

we found a shool of fish n/e of Geneva at the 01 to 04 line trolling n/e. we were using lite bite slide divers set on 4.5 and 3 and 1.5. we caught most of our fish running the 4.5 divers 130 back and played around with the 3 and 1.5. we caught fish as shallow as 60' back on the 1.5 and 75' back on the 3 setting. these settings on a lite bite diver would be close to running a dipsy on a 1 2 and 3 setting. then we caught some nice fish running 50' down on our downriggers. our best harnesses were double Colorado dr death from gale force tackle and nuclear green from challenger lures. our best speed was trying to run 1.6 to 1.8 but we bounced from 1.4 to 1.8. hope this helps. I think most people were fishing to deep, as we were fishing the top 40' of water except for the riggers. while fishing I kept an eye on the depth finder and every so often I would notice some nice marks at around 50'. and the riggers hadn't been taking any fish so I just dropped 1 down to 50' and after catching a 29" and a 30" my son dropped the other 1 down and started catching fish.

[Dr.Ed]

Thanks for the info. I'm going up tomorrow and will give that area a try. I was only 2 miles south of where I had to be on the last trip but no one was talking so I was fishing in the blind. Thanks again and stay dry....