04-16-2015, 04:38 PM
[#0000FF]I know guys who fish full floating lines...but sometimes add a couple of bb shot ahead of the flies. And a weighted conehead helps to get the fly down deeper and faster too.
I have always preferred a sink tip line...with a type III sinker as a backup for more depth. Since a lot of that fishing is fairly shallow the sink tip is a good 'tweener for a floater and medium sink. When the wipers start busting shad on the surface...after about the first of August...a full floater is the ticket.
Back in earlier times...when the biology of the lake was much different...I worked a six weight with a sink tip along the rocks north of the south marina. I was usually targeting the numerous crappies that stayed close to the rocks most of the year. And the crappies were the primary forage species before gizzard shad were introduced...and no wipers. The walleyes and catfish (predators) stayed close to the crappies near the rocks so there was not much to be gained by fishing the open lake.
The attached dead fish picture (no longer proud of) shows a triple limit of 50 crappies, 8 cats and 2 walleyes over 20 inches. The actual limit on walleyes was 6, but only 2 over 20 inches. And it was almost impossible to find any smaller than 20 inches. They were all caught on my 6 weight with white, black or chartreuse flies...in about 4 hours of morning fishing. I actually caught many more crappies and a few more cats and walleyes. And as I recall, I was about the only person on the lake on a Saturday morning. Ah, the good ol' days. (About 1979)
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I have always preferred a sink tip line...with a type III sinker as a backup for more depth. Since a lot of that fishing is fairly shallow the sink tip is a good 'tweener for a floater and medium sink. When the wipers start busting shad on the surface...after about the first of August...a full floater is the ticket.
Back in earlier times...when the biology of the lake was much different...I worked a six weight with a sink tip along the rocks north of the south marina. I was usually targeting the numerous crappies that stayed close to the rocks most of the year. And the crappies were the primary forage species before gizzard shad were introduced...and no wipers. The walleyes and catfish (predators) stayed close to the crappies near the rocks so there was not much to be gained by fishing the open lake.
The attached dead fish picture (no longer proud of) shows a triple limit of 50 crappies, 8 cats and 2 walleyes over 20 inches. The actual limit on walleyes was 6, but only 2 over 20 inches. And it was almost impossible to find any smaller than 20 inches. They were all caught on my 6 weight with white, black or chartreuse flies...in about 4 hours of morning fishing. I actually caught many more crappies and a few more cats and walleyes. And as I recall, I was about the only person on the lake on a Saturday morning. Ah, the good ol' days. (About 1979)
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