Would like to know if anyone has been jigging around the firing range yet??? And if there's been any luck? Or is it still to early
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Would like to know if anyone has been jigging around the firing range yet??? And if there's been any luck? Or is it still to early
Was at the condo at Green Cove yesterday getting ready for the rental season and nobody was fishing out front. Channel at Wild Wings had ice and watched one of the charter boats breaking thin ice going down channel.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wally
If interested we rent our condo at Green Cove Resort also
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Thanks
John
Launched at Catawba today as all the marinas were still iced up. Jigged around little mouse reef and a few other areas. Marked fish all day and caught nothing. Gave up after 2 hours as it was slow. Finder was saying the water temp was 34.9 and I'm assuming that was the problem. I think this last cold front sent the fish back to being dormant. Reefs should pick up in a week I'd think. Tons of fish in deep water. Marked way more in 25-40 fow than anything shallower.
Thanks for the info guys. Yea though it was still to cold . "But thought just maybe"!! Coming up in about 3 weeks hope it's better by then. Trying to catch the jig "thank you again"
Yea with all the 13"-14" fish we caught last year this year should be good. I'd say 3 weeks from now it will definitely be "on."
Wow we were out on the weekend of the 12th off of huron and water temp was just a few ticks above 40. I would had assumed at that point it would had been warmer in the shallower western waters and would not had guess an almost 6 degree cool down from that time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pauken23
Just checked the NOAA site and the fish finder was right. Water temp off Toledo is 35. This cold spell that came through really set things back.
I'm new to this but we smoked the fish in February out of Huron with 33 avg water temp no joke it was 32 at times too. Im guessing the big blow and water color has them shut down more than the temp. Although cooling down from 40 to 35 probably has an effect too, hopefully things level out and they start biting again soon!
I think it needs to be closer to 40 for them to go on the reefs to spawn. They stage outside of Huron before moving back west. You can definitely have luck in colder water just like ice fishing but trying to hit them spawning in 35 degree water is hard. And yea, the water was close to spawning temp and then dropped back down. I think that shocked them back to more of a staging position. It's mid/late March and I'd say any nice day now they'll be moving on to the reefs. Just my thoughts.
Still saying water temp is 35 off Toledo, 37 off Cleveland, and 34 off Erie. That doesn't make total sense but that's the NOAA numbers. Tomorrow is going to be cold in Toledo but this weekend is supposed to warm up a lot. I'd guess by Sunday or next week that temp will be back closer to 40. There is definitely enough daylight to trigger them and they are in rivers already (although I haven't heard of a really good day there yet, singles/doubles at best). The fish are there and if you fish hard enough you're bound to figure out what they want that day. This past Sunday we just got cold so didn't switch from jigging to trolling. I will say, people seemed to be doing half/half jig/troll last Sunday and I didn't see a single boat pull one in. Just one of those days. Now someone will obviously post on here how they got 4 limits last Sunday :)
Some links to help the group (most people here probably have these already and if this isn't allowed an admin can take this down).
Water temp and waves:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/marine/zo...akes/clemz.htm
Satellite images for water clarity:
https://coastwatch.glerl.noaa.gov/modis/region_map.html
Ok got the week of April 10th to the 14th off work coming up that week and the 2 week end before way it sounds I got a good chance huh??? Gonna try some jigging if that don't work gonna troll
Well Pauken23 you had to open it up. Just kidding however I will say that a friend of mine was invited to head up last Sunday and fish with a good friend of his. I do not know the gentleman. They launched out of Mazuriks and headed NE of Kelley's to start. Nothing there, so ended up between southbass and Kelley's. I can't tell you the entire program they had but orange with black was hottest. I wish I knew the color name myself. All in all my friend showed me a picture of 8 eyes, 30 inch largest, 24.5 smallest ,said it took most of the day. Was not fast by any means. Come on mother nature, straighten up please, we all want a piece! Good fishing to all and stay safe.
Knew someone found some hungry fish that day :) Well done!
To be honest we spent our 2 hours in various places between Catawba and South Bass. If we weren't so freaking cold we probably would've moved around more and at least come home with something. Bring on the warm water and the reefs!!!