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Slow Fishing

Tuesday, January 07th, 2020 | Author:

Monday morning I went to the Garhole a little later than I would normally start fishing to allow the sun to start to warm things up. Fishing started at 10:15, and even with a late start, it took an hour before the first bite came. A DT-10 fished slowly, as a matter of fact when I stopped it, got the first bite. When I was reeling in the fish I got a good look at two other good fish trying to take the bait away. Only those two were all I caught in that spot, for a total of three. That was the total for that spot although it was visited three times more during the day. One of those was caught on a DT-6 which seems to be a bait that is good for cold water situations as long as it is fished painfully slow. The old beat up one is the one that was used. It floats higher than a new one when you start the day, but as the balsa soaks up water, later in the day it suspends just right like a jerk bait. I alternated the two crank baits, a deep diving jerk bait, and a jig all day long. The bites on the jig were so subtle they were to detect but I had one close to the boat that the line broke when I set the hook. Need to be more careful setting the drag. I liked the new D&L advantage Jigs with a protected line tie. They seemed to come through the limbs of brush tops with no hanging up. I tried all the regular spots with not much luck. I watched my depth finder all day trying to figure out where the fish were. As I floated over a treetop that I didn’t realize was there, I saw some fish hanging around it. After drifting away a little bit, I threw a DT-6 back over it and caught a fish, hooked on the rear hook as most of the fish I caught were. They were just nipping at the bait even though it was moving slowly. I quit at 3:45 with 8 fish, the largest was 3 pounds. Three or four others pulled off as they fought, certainly because of them just nipping at the bait due to the cold water.

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