Anybody help a weekender?

[Gobucks8100!]

I’m up for the weekend and could use some help on location, depth and color. Can troll or jig. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks fellas (and Juls)!!!

[Gobucks8100!]

Well….nevermind. We found them and got a quick 2 man limit. I’m all for helping out and sharing…..so, here goes. Northwest tip of Kelley’s island. 30’ water. Pretty clean. 2.0 mph. Chrome anything. Unassisted 50’, 70’, 90’. Let’s all help each other out this season. There were quite a few boats out there by the time we left. Can’t believe we were the only ones who read this site every day. Plenty of fish to share info!!! Tight lines guys! (And Juls!)

[badboards]

I haven't been up yet this year. We got 3 good days a few weeks ago but it went down hill fast. Don't think there has been much going on. Way to go finding them today. What was the water temperature. Thanks for reporting.

[Gobucks8100!]

46ish degrees

[PJ Mas]

Any thoughts for this weekend? Might be a little choppy, but is anyone heading out and any advice for locations to jig?

[fishfinder]

We went to Turtle point for three days, we got there Wednesday evening and it was choppy so we went out Thursday morning and only got two jigging, went back our around four and got six in the boat lost two at the boat and one short throw back. It was a very slow bite. I heard it was going to be bad this morning so we did not get up too early but we did hear the boats going out and coming back in rather quickly, most turned around at the mouth of the lake, it was BAD. We decided to come back today instead of Saturday evening. I think it supposed to bad until Monday but the water will be a mess after the huge waves today.

[rickerd]

chx-wing - The way I determine the direction of current is to start trolling directly down wind with a dipsy on each side with same settings and lure. But the lure is not necessary for this. Make All things equal rod, rod angle up and to back and same lines on each reel.

Then you watch the angles of line going into the water. The angle off the rods should be the same and distance away from the boat the same as line enters the water. When all these things appear equal, the current is also equal below you in the depth your divers are running. Many times the current is different and one will pull harder than the other. If the port pulls stronger than starboard, further back and further from boat, then current is more from starboard. and vise versa. Try to keep trolling until your lines are reading equal to each other. Note the direction on compass and that is either up current or down current. This system can work with flatline lures back but the dipsy or Lite Bite divers tell the story more obvious to me.

Rickerd

[Lynn M]

I was out there today and didn't have much luck. I spent most of the day trolling. First over by Breast Bay because of the NW wind. Only caught one there. By 11 I left and headed for Turtle Creek. Waves were still 2 to 3 foot so it took some time to get out to West Sister. Water was some clearer but still very stained. After trying there for a while without any luck I decided to head to the reefs. The water did clear up but still no luck trolling. There were a bunch of boats in between Cone reef and Locust so I did some jigging and did manage to catch a few. Now that we have a better Satellite image it will help to know what areas to avoid. Probably be heading out there Monday again. Thanks for reporting Gobucks!

[Chix_wing]

Thank you for sharing, Gobucks. Wife and I were out in the same area, between the monument and Kelly's, pulling Bandits in 45' of water heading NE with the (small) waves. We fished 1:30-4:30 and put 6 hogs in livewell, none milking or visibly full of eggs. We lost two that managed to get unhooked on the way in. Best leads were 40-55 unassisted. Caught nothing deep. Water was much clearer than I expected - was able to see the prop pretty easily. RC Crush and Seasick Frog were by far the best producers. Nothing on chromes. I was running much slower, 1.1-1.6 so perhaps I should have been going faster. I know that generally you want to troll with the current, which hopefully is the same as the waves. Yesterday, it seemed the current was going in a direction different than the waves but I couldn't be certain and didn't find a pattern that triggered them to bite. If anyone wants to share how we should be thinking about the current vs. waves when trolling in a 20' boat I'm all ears.

[Gobucks8100!]

Went back out to same area today and ran same program and had 2 man limit from 8am-10am. Funny thing… .yesterday there were maybe 5 of us out there…..after yesterdays post, today, there was 100 boats when we showed up. We slept in on purpose and found it a parking lot when we got out. Coincidence??? Dunno…but if you read the posts on this site and don’t give back to others with information, tips or tricks, you should be ashamed of yourself.

60 lb bag of 12 today. All 24-26”. After we hit our limit, we were reeling lines in to go home and got 2 more 26”ers. Kinda hard to watch them swim away after catching them!