02-23-2016, 03:48 AM
Thanks for everything Tom. The only reason we went was because you were down there and had the place scouted [
] Going to new places, especially a place that can be as crowded as Havasu, makes me nervous with Madison with me. Nice to have someone else around if something popped up.
I only got two hits/bumps all day. Both on cranks. One on a 15ft diver off a deep main point nook and one on a 4ft or so jerk bait on a tertiary point. The big LMBs that I saw in one small cove were tethered to 3 artificial habitat boxes in 10ft of water. I also saw one smaller LMB around some reed piles placed in about 5ft of water. All lock jaw.
Tried about everything though. All depths of Jerk baits, cranks covering all depth ranges, tubes, jigs, drop shot, senkos, single grubs/twin hula grubs, swimbaits, etc, etc. About the only technique I didn't toss was wacky.
To me cranks was the primary. Cover lots of ground and once something shows it face then slow down and work it.
Boat traffic I thought was very minimal. But we are use to weekend fishing. Never had any bad experiences. No one passing us close, shooting into the coves we were in, etc. We even had the launch ramp to ourselves when we pulled the boat out near sunset.
Tom
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] Going to new places, especially a place that can be as crowded as Havasu, makes me nervous with Madison with me. Nice to have someone else around if something popped up. I only got two hits/bumps all day. Both on cranks. One on a 15ft diver off a deep main point nook and one on a 4ft or so jerk bait on a tertiary point. The big LMBs that I saw in one small cove were tethered to 3 artificial habitat boxes in 10ft of water. I also saw one smaller LMB around some reed piles placed in about 5ft of water. All lock jaw.
Tried about everything though. All depths of Jerk baits, cranks covering all depth ranges, tubes, jigs, drop shot, senkos, single grubs/twin hula grubs, swimbaits, etc, etc. About the only technique I didn't toss was wacky.
To me cranks was the primary. Cover lots of ground and once something shows it face then slow down and work it.
Boat traffic I thought was very minimal. But we are use to weekend fishing. Never had any bad experiences. No one passing us close, shooting into the coves we were in, etc. We even had the launch ramp to ourselves when we pulled the boat out near sunset.
Tom
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