Hi all,
Went to Big Sandy Lake today for the first time this year. Last year was awesome, lots of big trout and whitefish. Today was very different....Nothing...lol...well I guess at a stretch you could say i avoided the skunk and landed my first smelt through the ice....A PB!!!!lol
I don’t know whether it was just one of those days.......or the fact that the fish don’t hang out there this time of year...I’ve only fished that spot in March/April. Could be one or the other or both factors.
Its a little worrying as Big Sandy Lake is the venue for the 2nd day of the NWO meet up this weekend, thought I’d do a sneaky pre-fish. On the other hand it has helped because i think now i will suggest the reef 1st instead of that spot.
There were tons of smelt down there , just like in March last year, its just that the trout and whitefish were nowhere to be seen.....and believe me i tried just about every lure/bait combination for both species...Tube Jigs, airplane jigs, large/small sucker minnows , large small dace minnows but i was on a hiding to nothing, as i did not even see a fish on sonar that wasn't a smelt.
WAS KINDA GREY TODAY
LOTS OF SMELT DOWN THERE
AVOIDED THE SKUNK....LOL
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Hope Sunday is better...cant get worse....lol....oh yeah...it could...we might not even get a smelt!
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