lings

[fishjunkie]

anybody doing any good on ling  this  year?

[fishjunkie]

i am going to  try  at  the  dead sea i have some  golden eyes and  suckers  for  cutt bait  going to see  if the dead sea lives up to it name again this year

[godammjigger]

must be talking about Cooney?  I hope you do well, I would like to try nightfishing there at least once this year.  Someone I know swears to me that there are good walleye to be had through the ice there at night.... we'll see.... my luck has not been to good there.

[fishjunkie]

i have  yet to  catch one  fish  through  the  ice  there  i do very  good  in the summer this  will be my year  and  my brother  will  just  have to except defeat

[Bullelk34]

When I lived down there, we always did well over by Red Lodge creek. We used a small white twister tipped with a few maggots. Good luck-

[Bullelk34]

Whoops-- that was for trout, not ling.

[Dieselbean]

Let us know how it goes  im hoping to give it a try there maybe later in the season  i hear the ling run feb/march?

[Montana Made]

I have heard of some ling being caught below dams on the Big MO but thats open water

[sra61]

Years ago we got into big ling on Fort Peck. We chose our place to fish by the big pile of ling heads piled on the ice. Whoever had been there before us had really smacked 'em. We caught a couple and lost one 10lb.+ fish when he broke the line as we were trying to open up the hole after all night of freezing. I actually took some of those heads back home to show some of the guys, because they were huge! Some had to have been close to the state record. Duck creek is where we were that time. I think that was in mid Feb. So I guess early Feb. would have been the prime time. There was also a big pile of walleye heads there too!

[12BHNTN]

Hey guys.  New to this site and don't want to contribute to this thread going sideways but thought you'd like to know about a spot I found on Cooney a number of years ago.  I only got to fish it a couple of years but I nailed the trout almost every time out... 5 fish limit in 2.5 hrs each time.  I was never the first one on the ice but I was usually the first to leave.  I live in Helena now so haven't fished it in quite a while.

I parked at the first pullout along the east side of Willow Creek Bay.  The one before the parking area.  I walked down the bank and a bit north.  I was always the closest fisherman to shore in maybe 8' - 12' of water, 50 yards out or so.  At the time there was an old dead tree, or part of one, up on the bank that I would line up with.

I used a cheap white lead-headed jig with red and black eyes with a half a nightcrawler.  I'd set up so I could jig both rods...one at a time or at the same time.  Those football sized bows loved to hit the jig while I was actively jigging.

Hope somebody finds my old spot and they are still keyed in on it.

Happy jigging.

[maggoteater]

They Used to have the winston Ling Ding every year on canyon ferry on superbowl sunday. I fished it once or twice. The last year that I stopped in the winston bar to check the results they had had the derby but not a single ling was caught. i think the Ling ding is kaput now.
I just secured some serious sucker meat and plan on making an effort in the next 5 days for perch and Ling on the Helena lakes. I'll report next week.