10-12-2014, 03:32 PM
[font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000][size 4]JiggyJus10 joined me for a short morning trip to the Berry yesterday. Wow …. What a beautiful time of year to fish. I love the morning skies, the patchy fog, sun coming up over the mountains, and the bright yellow aspens. Then launching the boat and cruising of to hopefully a good day of fishing. Don't get any better than that.
We drove over to Renegade and launched there. The road was interesting. It had some mean pot holes in the asphalt that required some interesting driving. There is about a 1000 yards of road that isn't yet paved but it still supports two-way traffic. Overall, the road to Renegade is plenty good if that's where you want to launch. You just have to be a little careful and not go as fast as you might be use to going.
The water temps were still 55° all day and the bite was slower than I had hoped.
We were planning on vertical jigging white tube jigs tipped with chub all day but we never found any fish concentrated enough under us to vertical jig. So we would just cast that tube out as far as possible and slowly retrieve it. We only caught about 25 fish between the both of us with Justin catching twice as many as me.
We got lots of bites that we missed. We discovered that when reeling in the lure, if you felt a nibble, if you slowed way down to let them take it, your chances of hooking up was much greater.
Our first bite didn't come until about 10:00. Because I needed to be home early, we called it quits at 12:30. So our 25 fish came in in only 2 ½ hours.
The water still has lots of algae in it but the water over by the big points east of the ramp were EXTREEMLY full of floating algae. It was so bad, we opted to not even drop a line there.
We caught 90% of our fish over in that big bay north-west of the Renegade ramp. For a while there, Justin was putting on a real clinic. He just kept landing them one after another while other boats watched. Every once in a while, it's fun to be in the boat where all the catching is happening.
I caught a real nice rainbow that did a couple high aerobics and several long hard runs before I landed him.
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Justin and I had a great short morning on the Berry. [/size][/#800000][/font]
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We drove over to Renegade and launched there. The road was interesting. It had some mean pot holes in the asphalt that required some interesting driving. There is about a 1000 yards of road that isn't yet paved but it still supports two-way traffic. Overall, the road to Renegade is plenty good if that's where you want to launch. You just have to be a little careful and not go as fast as you might be use to going.
The water temps were still 55° all day and the bite was slower than I had hoped.
We were planning on vertical jigging white tube jigs tipped with chub all day but we never found any fish concentrated enough under us to vertical jig. So we would just cast that tube out as far as possible and slowly retrieve it. We only caught about 25 fish between the both of us with Justin catching twice as many as me.
We got lots of bites that we missed. We discovered that when reeling in the lure, if you felt a nibble, if you slowed way down to let them take it, your chances of hooking up was much greater.
Our first bite didn't come until about 10:00. Because I needed to be home early, we called it quits at 12:30. So our 25 fish came in in only 2 ½ hours.
The water still has lots of algae in it but the water over by the big points east of the ramp were EXTREEMLY full of floating algae. It was so bad, we opted to not even drop a line there.
We caught 90% of our fish over in that big bay north-west of the Renegade ramp. For a while there, Justin was putting on a real clinic. He just kept landing them one after another while other boats watched. Every once in a while, it's fun to be in the boat where all the catching is happening.
I caught a real nice rainbow that did a couple high aerobics and several long hard runs before I landed him.
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Justin and I had a great short morning on the Berry. [/size][/#800000][/font]
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