11-16-2003, 02:26 AM
Ya, I'm up for meeting up when I come on over to AZ. I'll give you my cell phone number when the time starts gettin' closer here. I think my flight leaves somewhere around the 25th??? I can't remember. LoL.
Yup, I think the fish here have moved into winter mode as well. There really was hardly ever the classic kind of "fall-time" bite here. It was kind of lame. There was about a span of a week or two when I was catching a bunch of fish on ripbaits but that's about it. We kind of jumped right into winter here. It was kinda lame. LoL. And no, I haven't used all the stuff I got from ya last time. haha. Pork lasts forever!! [crazy] I have been usin' it quite a bit the last week though. Most of the fish I'm catching on the jig are pretty solid fish. 2-5lbers mainly. I can usually put together a sack of about 14-17lbs. I haven't gotten any over 5.5 though since this jig bite turned on. However, I'm expecting a big one in the mix at any time now. [
] I need to get out on the Delta again is what I need to fo. I haven't been out there in more than a month. I also found a good crankbait bite a couple of days ago using a deep diving Poe's red craw crankbait. I found some fish stacked up on the very edge of a rip-rap bank where it turns into mud. 2-4lbers there. But I heard a guy caught an 8lber not too long ago cranking that same rip-rap bank, and I suspect that edge is where he caught it. The jig fish and crank fish aren't too deep. If the sun comes out to play one day, then the jig fish move right up on the rocks right next to the bank. Last Monday that's what happened and the fish would slam my jig almost as soon as it landed in the water a mere 6" from the bank. I missed a few fish because they'd hit the jig so quick-like and so viciously, and then I go to set the hook, and just that quickly they've already carried my jig out to deeper water underneath of me and on the other side! However, if it's overcast and raining like it usually has been, then they move farther off the bank into 5-12ft of water. So those fish are still easily accessible, however, I have located a bunch of fish on a deepwater ledge in about 30-40ft of water, and I've been catching them by split-shotting plastic craws, but who wants to fish that deep when you can fish a jig or crank elsewhere? Har Har [cool]
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Yup, I think the fish here have moved into winter mode as well. There really was hardly ever the classic kind of "fall-time" bite here. It was kind of lame. There was about a span of a week or two when I was catching a bunch of fish on ripbaits but that's about it. We kind of jumped right into winter here. It was kinda lame. LoL. And no, I haven't used all the stuff I got from ya last time. haha. Pork lasts forever!! [crazy] I have been usin' it quite a bit the last week though. Most of the fish I'm catching on the jig are pretty solid fish. 2-5lbers mainly. I can usually put together a sack of about 14-17lbs. I haven't gotten any over 5.5 though since this jig bite turned on. However, I'm expecting a big one in the mix at any time now. [
] I need to get out on the Delta again is what I need to fo. I haven't been out there in more than a month. I also found a good crankbait bite a couple of days ago using a deep diving Poe's red craw crankbait. I found some fish stacked up on the very edge of a rip-rap bank where it turns into mud. 2-4lbers there. But I heard a guy caught an 8lber not too long ago cranking that same rip-rap bank, and I suspect that edge is where he caught it. The jig fish and crank fish aren't too deep. If the sun comes out to play one day, then the jig fish move right up on the rocks right next to the bank. Last Monday that's what happened and the fish would slam my jig almost as soon as it landed in the water a mere 6" from the bank. I missed a few fish because they'd hit the jig so quick-like and so viciously, and then I go to set the hook, and just that quickly they've already carried my jig out to deeper water underneath of me and on the other side! However, if it's overcast and raining like it usually has been, then they move farther off the bank into 5-12ft of water. So those fish are still easily accessible, however, I have located a bunch of fish on a deepwater ledge in about 30-40ft of water, and I've been catching them by split-shotting plastic craws, but who wants to fish that deep when you can fish a jig or crank elsewhere? Har Har [cool][signature]