Hawnjigs
KISS
Sometimes equals extraordinary results, like when I decided to try night jigging from previous daylight preference. Catches morphed from mediocre dink infested sizes to master angler trophies, all released of course, and now during the warm season mostly fish in the dark. Side benefit of avoiding the heat and sunburn of the day, but need to deploy bug spray to repel blood suckers which emerge at night.
Yesterday, best option waking up too late for the usual pre-dawn road trip decided to scout hometown Lake McConaughy for suitable rocky terrain to host the upcoming alewife spawn with attendant predators. May as well try to entice a few smallies while trekking, so did my usual parallel to rocky shoreline search casting with no bites at all. End of the trek was the tip of a rocky point with a deep drop off on a side, so decided to try long casting out and dropping into the depths which tekneek I had never explored beyond a few casts here n there with no success worth more comprehensive exploration. Surprisingly I was on a sweet spot, dropping 30 seconds & slow twitching back a suitable for catfish mentioned in previous posts half a Gulp chartreuse Sinking Minnow pinned on a light 3/32 Midwest Finesse head with 1/0 Gami 604 heavy wire hook. Stuck 6 nice smallies, tho only landed 2 as maybe these bigger fish had harder lip structure difficult to penetrate & dropped off during the fights.
Waiting out several days of T-storms and will return upweighting to 3/16 2/0 adjusting to deeper water and bigger fish. Point being that trying something or someplace new can be a ticket, never know unless you try.
Yesterday, best option waking up too late for the usual pre-dawn road trip decided to scout hometown Lake McConaughy for suitable rocky terrain to host the upcoming alewife spawn with attendant predators. May as well try to entice a few smallies while trekking, so did my usual parallel to rocky shoreline search casting with no bites at all. End of the trek was the tip of a rocky point with a deep drop off on a side, so decided to try long casting out and dropping into the depths which tekneek I had never explored beyond a few casts here n there with no success worth more comprehensive exploration. Surprisingly I was on a sweet spot, dropping 30 seconds & slow twitching back a suitable for catfish mentioned in previous posts half a Gulp chartreuse Sinking Minnow pinned on a light 3/32 Midwest Finesse head with 1/0 Gami 604 heavy wire hook. Stuck 6 nice smallies, tho only landed 2 as maybe these bigger fish had harder lip structure difficult to penetrate & dropped off during the fights.
Waiting out several days of T-storms and will return upweighting to 3/16 2/0 adjusting to deeper water and bigger fish. Point being that trying something or someplace new can be a ticket, never know unless you try.