05-20-2019, 01:25 AM
No, I didn't think it was that crowded. There is usually a pretty good group of boats that fish around the state line up to pipeline but there wasn't alot of boats around anvil draw. As a matter of fact I told the ladies to set them out farther because I felt they were to close to the boat. Sheep Creek was probably more crowded but it seemed like they were fishing for rainbows closer to shore. We primarily fished in 80-100 feet of water.
Normally I subscribe to the 50/50 method. 50 feet set back then the weight, 50 feet more to reach the desired depth then the planer board and out as far as you wish but my wife recently attended a Kokanee seminar at Scheels with Art Pearce who said he puts his weight closer to the dodger so he can net the fish without removing the weight. It made sense to me because we would lose fish taking off the board, then taking off the weight seemed too many opportunities for the fish to come free. We put the weights about sixish feet behind the dodger then let out 80 feet more to reach the desired depth. We kinda guesstimated from a chart from redneck outfitters for our depth. We lost fewer fish using this method.
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Normally I subscribe to the 50/50 method. 50 feet set back then the weight, 50 feet more to reach the desired depth then the planer board and out as far as you wish but my wife recently attended a Kokanee seminar at Scheels with Art Pearce who said he puts his weight closer to the dodger so he can net the fish without removing the weight. It made sense to me because we would lose fish taking off the board, then taking off the weight seemed too many opportunities for the fish to come free. We put the weights about sixish feet behind the dodger then let out 80 feet more to reach the desired depth. We kinda guesstimated from a chart from redneck outfitters for our depth. We lost fewer fish using this method.
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