Fished last 3.5 hours until dark Saturday, and about 5 hours Sunday morning. In years past, this set up would have been good for some serious numbers in the boat… but not this year. Lost one, saw a couple then missed a serious pig Saturday night. Went back at her next day, but turned up only a couple follows and one miss. Fishing not too bad, just not like it used to be!
I had just five days there this year so not a lot to go on, but it seemed to be enough to agree that overall contact is down. I also then don't get to gauge pressure there as much as I can Thorn, for example, but I do submit that conditioning of fish, as well as maturing of the population (a shift to some more larger fish in the population which just seem to have fewer and smaller feeding windows), has got something to do with it.
But Duke, those shorter outings of just 3.5 hours and 5 hours leading to those opportunities doesn't sound bad to me at all! Project that over longer timeframes (full days) on the water and it's very likely you'd boat at least one on those days, which is always good in my book.
"Jim tenHaaf" said:
[quote="Duke"]Fishing not too bad, just not like it used to be!
Does anyone have a reasonable explanation for this yet?? Have most of the fish seriously gone over the dam? I'd be very curious to hear some reasons, even if they are just educated guesses.
I am certain that the dam losses have had a noticeable impact, but I doubt that is the only cause for less frequent musky sightings. Not sure about other things, but one thing is for sure- A LOT of fish went down last spring especially.
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