greyhackle
Escalante-Class Member
The pressure finally got to me. Got to Bullfrog Friday about 11am. Loaded camp and gear and headed to the north end for the weekend.
Our days are numbered from Bullfrog. The north ramp is only 3 sections of concrete from high and dry. The main ramp may be useable for small fishing boats like a few years ago, but I don’t know for how long if we don’t get some snowpack.
Fishing was slow for us. Drove clear to the horn. Water at the horn was only 14 ft deep and muddy. 41degrees on surface.
We trolled from dungees island to horn nothing. Fished the bay from main channel to red canyon. The fish were stacked in 45 ft to 60 feet, could not get down to them trolling. So we spooned around the bay for a couple of hours, could not get them to turn on.
Got up Saturday and fished Ned rigs, no love, switched to watermelon chartreuse curly tail jigs. Picked up a few smallies and largemouth. Had to fish them really slow in 15 to 25 ft of water, bite was really light.
Decided to troll again across the channel from ticaboo up to mm127. Caught enough stripers to make the trip, but had a hard time. The deepest running lures we took were 8 xd strike king in sexy shad. The fish in the main channel around mm127 were 45 to 60 ft deep.
Had a friend that had his down riggers set at 45 ft and caught over 100 Friday. I left my down riggers home , thinking we’d get them spooning, it just didn’t work for us. Great trip anyway. It’s not about numbers, I’m just reporting the facts. Weather was gorgeous, a little cold at night. Tight lines!
Our days are numbered from Bullfrog. The north ramp is only 3 sections of concrete from high and dry. The main ramp may be useable for small fishing boats like a few years ago, but I don’t know for how long if we don’t get some snowpack.
Fishing was slow for us. Drove clear to the horn. Water at the horn was only 14 ft deep and muddy. 41degrees on surface.
We trolled from dungees island to horn nothing. Fished the bay from main channel to red canyon. The fish were stacked in 45 ft to 60 feet, could not get down to them trolling. So we spooned around the bay for a couple of hours, could not get them to turn on.
Got up Saturday and fished Ned rigs, no love, switched to watermelon chartreuse curly tail jigs. Picked up a few smallies and largemouth. Had to fish them really slow in 15 to 25 ft of water, bite was really light.
Decided to troll again across the channel from ticaboo up to mm127. Caught enough stripers to make the trip, but had a hard time. The deepest running lures we took were 8 xd strike king in sexy shad. The fish in the main channel around mm127 were 45 to 60 ft deep.
Had a friend that had his down riggers set at 45 ft and caught over 100 Friday. I left my down riggers home , thinking we’d get them spooning, it just didn’t work for us. Great trip anyway. It’s not about numbers, I’m just reporting the facts. Weather was gorgeous, a little cold at night. Tight lines!
