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We also have not had a very consistant barometer, as soon as we string together 3 or 4 days of high pressure, the fish will become easier to outsmart again.
I still think you guys are out of your minds saying lakers suspend. I see maybe 1-2 per trip on my sonar that suspend. I'm just trying to help you guys catch lakers the way we all do here in CO, we of course invented using the tube jig for fishing for lakers ya know. I believe you, but its kind of like saying to somebody there is plenty of oxygen to breathe underwater. Ours eat mysis shrimp mostly, we don't have baitfish in any of our lakes. ( a few of our rivers have sculpins )In blue mesa perch have gotten in their in the past year or so, but that is the only lake. Those lakers are the most unaggressive in blue as well. In some of our lakes, they used to eat dying kokanee before they stopped stocking kokanee. We used to have huge lakers every where in all our lakes, but since DOW hates them they removed all slots and raised the limit and suggested keeping all big lakers anybody caught. That coupled with most of our reservoirs being 100 feet down or more in the last few years, which concentrated our big fish, our big ones are mostly gone, but still there are 30 lbers caught at blue every week. All I know is everybody here in CO laughs when I tell them how the crazy northeasterners fish for lakers, jigging aggressively and looking for primarily suspending fish. I also tell them the northeasterners think lakers hit hard and most people laugh out of their minds. I really would like to see infisherman guys catch more than 1-2 lakers in a day fishing in our lakes the way they do, I really would. because I've heard you lake george fisherman have had trouble in the last month getting them to strike, you'd get a lot more if you fished the way I, and other CO anglers have suggested. Not to say you guys aren't good fisherman (bigred is particularly a much better fisherman than I am) I just think you guys are having problems when your fish aren't aggressive. Try fishing our way and compare your results this time of year, I don't think there will be any going back. But of course, fishing is different in every area, so who knows All I know is it irritates me when you guys tell me I'm a moron because I say lakers bottom hug pretty much exclusively here, IT'S BECAUSE THEY DO. Just try it, I've tried your easterners ways this year jigging for lakers in a day when I was getting plenty my way, and I didn't get a strike. But at least I tried it.
when the lakers arent aggressive, we still catch at least 3 or 4 each...if i am not getting suspended fish, i downsize and/or head towards bottom - whatever it takes to get a hook up! We also have not had a very consistant barometer, as soon as we string together 3 or 4 days of high pressure, the fish will become easier to outsmart again.
Steady weather = Hungry Lakers on the King!
Sunny weather and high pressure is slow fishing, and cloudy weather and low barometer, especially when it's falling, is laker paradise usually.
Kind of like humans heh Bigred. I'm usually in a biting mood in the morning but the wife likes to bite in the late evening.
i wonder if there are other opposites with other species of fish?
Of course stange is a complete fool when it comes to fishing in most cases.