We just moved till we found schools. How does one go about finding the schools? I was on the Soldier Creek side last Friday, motored around with the big motor for a few miles getting familiar with some underwater structure and points, but rarely had any fish returns on the sonar. Even silently drifting along the shore with the wind did not help us find any schools of fish. Perplexed on how to go about finding them without spooking them off with the gas motor.
Heading out Sat AM in the boat with the wife, and really hoping to put her on a few fish.
I use electric, but I would be interested in how to find schools
What we were doing this day was seeing them rise. When things slowed down we would motor along till we saw rises, stopped and started casting. The “schools” are not tight groups of fish but rather spread out I believe. But they are in more of a concentrated area. The fact that they were rising helped us out a ton.
I was at the berry today It was cold and windey I have been trolling this same place for the last month catching a lot of fish I think most of the fish are in the top 20 feet of water so dont see that meny on your fishfinder. we have been using the same lures and fishing with 3 lines out one downrigger down 16 to 18 feet one leaded line out 3 colors
and one line on top out 150 ft. worms on all the lures.
here are the snapshots of where we are fishing.
the first pitcher you can see the fish on the side imaging they show up as white. when we would hit the schools of fish all three lines out would catch a fish at the same time.
Fished Renegade on Tuesday 11/5 from 8 to 11:30. Air temp was 14 degree’s and water temp around 39. A little breezy all morning.
Once we left the highway all the roads had a light covering of snow on them and they were slick. Nothing that 4 wheel drive and slowing down could not easily overcome. It snowed a little bit all morning.
We fished in float tubes using flys. Awesome fishing all morning. Between 4 of us we landed 67 fish. We caught 7 rainbows and the rest cutts. No slot busters. All pretty much cookie cutter 16-19 inch cutts. The bows were all around 16-17 inches.
Just about any depth we tried worked. One in our group fished in water 10-30 feet deep with a intermediate line (Type 1). He landed 21 fish. I spend my morning out deeper in 36-46 feet deep using a type 6 sink line and counting down to 25 to 30 feet and landed 23 fish. The other 2 in our group were also fishing a type 6 sink line but staying in 25-35 feet deep and they did not do as well with 15 and 8 fish respectively. Lots of light hits and little bumps as well as missed hook sets with cold hands and fingers.
White bead headed buggers were the hot fly for sure with some fish also being caught on black, captain america, red, and craw orange.
Only one other group at renegade all morning that launched in a large pontoon party boat. Temp had really warmed up to 24 deg when we left at noon. Wind blew all morning but never overly strong. The snow had melted off the roads from the sunshine by the time we left so the drive home was pleasant.