01-23-2022, 08:43 PM
(01-23-2022, 07:59 PM)MWScott72 Wrote: Got the chance to hit Pineview last night with my son. Wasn't able to get out for the dusk bite, but instead fished from about 7:45-11pm. Bite was best from 8:30-10:30, slow but steady. Fished off Windsurfer Beach in 32 FOW. Had fish finder issues, so we were fishing blind but finally found them. Fish were 2-3 cranks off the bottom. Everyone around us seemed to be doing about the same. Caught most of my fish on a glow spoon with gold backside of some sort tipped with a chartruese crappie nibble. Only 2 hit a rat finkie tipped with a waxie on the upper jig.
Biggest were just over 10". Is there a way to get those fish back down without killing them? I tried a couple times, but they'd just lay there in the hole. The swim bladder thing seems to do them in quick, so i wasn't able ro release the smaller ones.
Had wanted to fish further up closer to the dam, but it was a parking convention there and finding a spot at that time would have been impossible. This access crap with the FS is gonna be a mess this year. ☹
Nice, were they biting really light? We made a fish decender, kind of like the ones sold comercialy, mine consisted of a one oz weighted hook. I would bent the hook barb flat, hook the line on at the shank where the bent is, then just hook the fish in the soft flesh of the lower lip. Once you put the fish on it and drop it to the bottom, you just do a sharp jurk and the fish would come right off.