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Title: Boysen experts
Post by: WyoZac on Jan 08, 2007, 02:51 PM
So tell me the best place to go fishing this next weekend. I usually only get to fish Boysen once a year so i never know were to decent spots are on the lake anymore. :( Your opinions would be greatly appreciated, and I promise to leave a few big ones in the lake when I go home on Monday! ;)
Title: Re: Boysen experts
Post by: WyoZac on Jan 08, 2007, 11:48 PM
Anybody???? :( :( :(
Title: Re: Boysen experts
Post by: 4cator on Jan 09, 2007, 03:38 AM
Look at the other reports on here. I haven't been over there yet. I hear they are gettin into a few perch, but you have to drill lots of holes and find them first.

And as always, you can catch trout with jigs or tip ups.  On about any point.
Title: Re: Boysen experts
Post by: WyoZac on Jan 09, 2007, 04:02 PM
I was mainly wondering about the ice, does the east side have as much ice as the west?
Title: Re: Boysen experts
Post by: WyoZac on Jan 09, 2007, 08:00 PM
whats the ice been like around tough creek? :tipup:
Title: Re: Boysen experts
Post by: bohman77 on Jan 09, 2007, 10:31 PM
i fished Boysen this past Monday and there was 12" of ice down out the damn. I saw found one of the biggest schools of crappies holding over a very small brush pile and ask me how many I caught? Zero, can you believe that. I sat for five hours and changed lures over fifty times. I tried everything from rattle spoons to marmooska jigs tipped w/ a spike. The only thing that I could conclude was that glow red was the color that excited them the most and a minnow would even get a look. It had to be spikes.
Hope others are having good luck.

bill bohman
Title: Re: Boysen experts
Post by: doggbiter on Jan 09, 2007, 11:10 PM
[quote author=bohman77 link The only thing that I could conclude was that glow red was the color that excited them the most and a minnow would even get a look. It had to be spikes.
bill bohman
[/quote]

I thought you caught zero??
Title: Re: Boysen experts
Post by: WyoZac on Jan 10, 2007, 01:36 AM
Thanks for the info :)
Title: Re: Boysen experts
Post by: 4x4elk on Jan 10, 2007, 04:19 AM
Wyozac just pick a spot and go good luck and be safe
Title: Re: Boysen experts
Post by: bohman77 on Jan 10, 2007, 07:38 AM
You're exactly right I didn't catch a one but I did have a camera and watched their reaction to different colors and presentations. I concluded that red glow was a color that excited them its not what triggered them.  i wish i would've found that color or presentation.    you win some and lose some.
Title: Re: Boysen experts
Post by: doggbiter on Jan 10, 2007, 07:15 PM
 That's cool, thanks for the additional info. Bohman.

 GOOD LUCK!
Title: Re: Boysen experts
Post by: hammerhead on Jan 10, 2007, 07:33 PM
Been skunked the last three times I,ve been out. Last time I just set all my lines for trout and still couldn,t even get a bite. Guys with me caught a total of two small burbot in three days fishing.
Title: Time of day?
Post by: eyewinder on Jan 10, 2007, 09:17 PM
bohman:

Were you able to fish the last hour of daylight?  It's amazing how the crappie tend to turn on around 3:30 or 4:00 p.m. on many of the lakes that I fish. 

Often it would appear there isn't a living critter under the ice during the afternoon, or they are extremely shy.

eyewinder
Title: Re: Boysen experts
Post by: rumdrinker on Jan 11, 2007, 12:22 AM
Hey that Crappie place, try it at dark, I hit a spot last year that I could not hit anything.  But as soon as thend  sun set and got dark I hit about 20 crappie.  I have heard the same thing from other people.  sounds like the crappie hit at night!
Title: Re: Boysen experts
Post by: bohman77 on Jan 11, 2007, 08:47 AM
You know I really wanted to stay and fish into the night but my girlfriend had other plans for me so to keep her happy I left about three. I grew up in Ohio and fished crappie all the time and you guys are exactly right about fishing them at night. I just figured that with my camera in the water I could have them tell me what they wanted; yeah that really worked for me! You folks on this forum really know what your talking about. Its awesome to have the ability to pick your brains about what works and more importantly what doesn't work. Keep up the great work and if anyone is going to Boysen this weekend Ill be at the sisters hopefully working the weed line and trees.
Bill Bohman

PS Ill be the guy in the big blue ice armor suit. That thing is awesome.