08-25-2019, 09:26 PM
Myself and AFDan52 vertical jigged out on the north end of the Berry Friday (one day after you and Randy). Catching wasn't nearly as good for us as it was for you guys. We only stayed till noon and only boated 22 fish between the two of us. Our techniques, lures, and locations are very similar to yours but with very different results. For the last month or so, cutt jigging has been phenomenal! Of course, I have to wonder what the difference was. I do know that the afternoon/night before, a cold front passed over the Wasatch Front. That is the only thing I could think of that had changed for us.
There were however, a couple of other things I did notice Friday; (1) The water had a lot more algae in the water. I kind of suspect that might be an indication of the season to come. (2) We seen as many fish suspended in the water column as we did on the bottom. I am definitely not use to seeing so many suspended fish in the summer months. Those suspended fish weren't above following our lures down/up but only a few of them would bite.
That last observation (fish higher in the middle of the water column), makes me wonder if the cuts might be staging to move south for the season.
I spoke with some other regular cutt jiggers out there and they had expressed the same phenomena for that day.
I'd like to make another trip down there again soon to see if the bite has truly started to drop off or if it was just down for that one day. If the bite has returned to the regular great summer fishing, then I would have to attribute Friday's slump to the cold front the night before.
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There were however, a couple of other things I did notice Friday; (1) The water had a lot more algae in the water. I kind of suspect that might be an indication of the season to come. (2) We seen as many fish suspended in the water column as we did on the bottom. I am definitely not use to seeing so many suspended fish in the summer months. Those suspended fish weren't above following our lures down/up but only a few of them would bite.
That last observation (fish higher in the middle of the water column), makes me wonder if the cuts might be staging to move south for the season.
I spoke with some other regular cutt jiggers out there and they had expressed the same phenomena for that day.
I'd like to make another trip down there again soon to see if the bite has truly started to drop off or if it was just down for that one day. If the bite has returned to the regular great summer fishing, then I would have to attribute Friday's slump to the cold front the night before.
--- Coot ---
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