First 2023 Trip

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Dworwood said:
it about time for a winter trip isn’t it? When you say it’s time maybe we will follow you down again! Getting cabin fever here! Temps need to warm up just a bit, this cold front needs to go back north.
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I'm headed down Tuesday, supposed to be low 40s in the day and 20s at night with 4 to 6 mph wind, which is the key to not freezing. I want to try the Bullfrog docks at night or I would stay at the Hotel. I'll be tent camping if the snow has melted:) And its past time Dworwood I'm starting to pace the floor again 😁. Lets go, I will be there at least 3 days and probably 4.
Sorry Dworwood I got the two post mixed up, but Dorado you come on and go to :)
 
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KYKevin said:
JWC sent me these pictures of Bullfrog
KYKevin said:
I'm headed down Tuesday, supposed to be low 40s in the day and 20s at night with 4 to 6 mph wind, which is the key to not freezing. I want to try the Bullfrog docks at night or I would stay at the Hotel. I'll be tent camping if the snow has melted:) And its past time Dworwood I'm starting to pace the floor again 😁. Lets go, I will be there at least 3 days and probably 4.
Sorry Dworwood I got the two post mixed up, but Dorado you come on and go to :)
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I think I’ll be waiting a bit before I head down, I was hoping to get away from the white stuff! After your last post I think the boat will stay covered!😁
 
Dungee said:
30ish fish? Over a couple days. Couldn’t quite narrow down a pattern. I caught everything non trolling on a walleye assasin in pearl and the green tail or a more sparkly colored one. I’m no KyKevin but it was a blast.
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Dungee
Really the thing I like most about a forum like WW, is it gives a guy time to think about it before he answers a post. And the more I thought about what you said, the more I thought about how much we probably are alike as far as fishing goes. Because I don't know you, or you me. But I know from this forum, that we have the love and ambition to fish Powell like so many others, and probably more then most. And I'm pretty sure we are both probably more competitive then we should be at times, but that mellows out in age all so. I never was really competitive fishing, until I got on WW, and started talking fishing, which I had never done. I actually got on a computer first time in 2001, because of WW. So its Wayne's fault 😜
But true story. And when I saw other people back then helping others to catch fish, in a huge lake that can be pretty intimidating when you first go, I knew I had to be a part of it. And with pictures and video, it is a great tool for learning all a guy can about fishing. The old saying a picture is worth a 1000 words, then a video must be worth a 1,000,000 :)
I wasn't going to post any thing until these guys started talking about hi jacking your post, which is never what I'm trying to do. But it happens some time on a lot of post.
Don't know what you think about the Walleye assassins, but would like to hear just how you were fishing them.
I have wished a lot of my life away because of fishing. I wish it were the weekend, I wish it were a holiday, etc. So you young guys don't wish your life away, it will go fast enough👍
Have a good one Dungee, and hope we meet on the lake some day.
 
KYKevin said:
Dungee
Really the thing I like most about a forum like WW, is it gives a guy time to think about it before he answers a post. And the more I thought about what you said, the more I thought about how much we probably are alike as far as fishing goes. Because I don't know you, or you me. But I know from this forum, that we have the love and ambition to fish Powell like so many others, and probably more then most. And I'm pretty sure we are both probably more competitive then we should be at times, but that mellows out in age all so. I never was really competitive fishing, until I got on WW, and started talking fishing, which I had never done. I actually got on a computer first time in 2001, because of WW. So its Wayne's fault 😜
But true story. And when I saw other people back then helping others to catch fish, in a huge lake that can be pretty intimidating when you first go, I knew I had to be a part of it. And with pictures and video, it is a great tool for learning all a guy can about fishing. The old saying a picture is worth a 1000 words, then a video must be worth a 1,000,000 :)
I wasn't going to post any thing until these guys started talking about hi jacking your post, which is never what I'm trying to do. But it happens some time on a lot of post.
Don't know what you think about the Walleye assassins, but would like to hear just how you were fishing them.
I have wished a lot of my life away because of fishing. I wish it were the weekend, I wish it were a holiday, etc. So you young guys don't wish your life away, it will go fast enough👍
Have a good one Dungee, and hope we meet on the lake some day.
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The hijacking is fine. It hasn’t gone away from fishing. I’ve done that to others a lot.

My dad has fished the assassins for like a year more than me and was out fishing me with them at time a couple springs ago.

Based on what @Chovyboy was saying I was just fishing 25/30 foot of water and then just casing them. Sometimes towards the bank, sometimes deeper, sometimes going slower, sometimes ripping it. Just trying to find a pattern. Problem was no pattern was consistent and different retrieves were working. They just never seemed like they were bunched up. We’d see a big pod of shad and even what looked like feeding fish on them but couldn’t get them to go crazy.

I was just using a quarter ounce gamkatsu round jig head on them. Really really like them, very durable. I think I used the same bait the entire trip.

Funny how you adapt and change. For years I would use an owner stand up kit head on a Yamamoto hula grub like 90% of the time and loved it. Caught everything with it. Now I love the ned rig and a round jig head on a Berkeley gulp shad minnow, starting to throw the assassins in the mix.

I love being as simple as possible with baits. I think many people over think it, especially at Powell. But I can catch just about anything in the state with either a ned rig or a Berkeley minnow.
 
flowerbug said:
Generally though, for cooler water the fish are not going to be as hungry... ?
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I think for a lot of fish this is true, but Stripers can be fast in the winter. This was in January 200 fish trip. I think if more people fished in the winter, they would have some great bites. And fishing at night can end up way into the morning, a lot of times in the winter. Docks with lights out, have filled a many of people on here's cooler in the winter 👍
 

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KYKevin said:
I think for a lot of fish this is true, but Stripers can be fast in the winter. This was in January 200 fish trip. I think if more people fished in the winter, they would have some great bites. And fishing at night can end up way into the morning, a lot of times in the winter. Docks with lights out, have filled a many of people on here's cooler in the winter 👍
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Dungee, we couldn’t find a pattern cause Kevin caught em all!😂🤣😂🤣
 
KYKevin said:
I think for a lot of fish this is true, but Stripers can be fast in the winter. This was in January 200 fish trip. I think if more people fished in the winter, they would have some great bites. And fishing at night can end up way into the morning, a lot of times in the winter. Docks with lights out, have filled a many of people on here's cooler in the winter 👍
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Yep!
How many thousands have we caught during the winter filling 40 gallon trash cans?
 

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