04-25-2006, 12:35 PM
[cool][#0000ff]Ya gotta be careful about believing anything that TubeDude guy posts. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]As we all find out, conditions and fish bite can be different on any given day. The seem to operate on their own schedule, for their own reasons. You can go for hours without an inquiry and then all of a sudden everybody is catching fish. It can go the other way too. Great one day and dead the next.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I always take three baits when I go a-cattin'. Nightcrawlers are a universal bait. Chub minnows are next in line...from 3" to 4" size work best for the average kitty, but the ones over 5" will catch bigger fish. Carp meat works on all species too. Try different size pieces. Sometimes they hit small pieces better than larger ones. At other times you need a big long strip to light them up. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]One of the other premier baits in Utah Lake is white bass flesh. However, since the white bass population has taken a dive, I recommend that we release all the white bass we don't absolutely have to have for a meal. They need a lot of help from the harvesters until they can have a couple of good spawns in the higher water and rebuild their numbers.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]If you can get it, sucker meat is primo too. The Jordan River hosts a pretty good run of suckers about now and you can find a lot of them in the Sevier River and other southern streams. If you go to Bear Lake, it is usually easy to bag a few big suckers fishing worms off the outside of the dike around the marina.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The corky rig can be either good or bad. Sometimes you just have to chuck the bait out without any weight or gadgets and let it lay undisturbed on the bottom. Other times you will do better with the bait hanging up off the bottom, either on a corky rig or under a bobber. Go prepared for any situation and keep changing both rigs and locations until you get into the fish.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]My personal guarantee? After this coming warming trend everybody will be smiling more...except the fish.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]As we all find out, conditions and fish bite can be different on any given day. The seem to operate on their own schedule, for their own reasons. You can go for hours without an inquiry and then all of a sudden everybody is catching fish. It can go the other way too. Great one day and dead the next.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I always take three baits when I go a-cattin'. Nightcrawlers are a universal bait. Chub minnows are next in line...from 3" to 4" size work best for the average kitty, but the ones over 5" will catch bigger fish. Carp meat works on all species too. Try different size pieces. Sometimes they hit small pieces better than larger ones. At other times you need a big long strip to light them up. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]One of the other premier baits in Utah Lake is white bass flesh. However, since the white bass population has taken a dive, I recommend that we release all the white bass we don't absolutely have to have for a meal. They need a lot of help from the harvesters until they can have a couple of good spawns in the higher water and rebuild their numbers.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]If you can get it, sucker meat is primo too. The Jordan River hosts a pretty good run of suckers about now and you can find a lot of them in the Sevier River and other southern streams. If you go to Bear Lake, it is usually easy to bag a few big suckers fishing worms off the outside of the dike around the marina.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The corky rig can be either good or bad. Sometimes you just have to chuck the bait out without any weight or gadgets and let it lay undisturbed on the bottom. Other times you will do better with the bait hanging up off the bottom, either on a corky rig or under a bobber. Go prepared for any situation and keep changing both rigs and locations until you get into the fish.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]My personal guarantee? After this coming warming trend everybody will be smiling more...except the fish.[/#0000ff]
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