Runoff will keep rivers on a slow rise for days after a major rainstorm. Instead, wait for the sun and watch the river tables. Even if rough fish do immediately move shallow in a raging river, you can’t see them in muddy water.
SOUR FISH CAT GOES FISHING HOW TO
It’s the best shooting of the year-if you know how to take advantage of it. Gar and carp swarm newly inundated banks and bushes in search of food, often slithering along in inches of water with their backs exposed. Field & Stream Online Editorsīowfishermen love a flood. Bowfish a Summer Flood for Carp and Gar Take advantage of high waters by going bowfishing. When the fillets flake apart, they’re done. Grill on low heat for five to six minutes on both sides. Liberally apply seasoned salt, pepper, and a bit of Cajun seasoning. They’ve accounted for more 2-plus-pound fish for me in the past two seasons than everything else combined.īonus Tip! This is the easiest-and one of the best-fish recipes I know: Dredge your big crappie fillets in melted garlic butter and place them in a grill basket. Swimbaits rarely get big numbers of bites, but when they do get bit, it’s often by a slab. Fished on 6-pound monofilament, they run 7 to 10 feet deep at crappie trolling speeds of 1 to 1.5 mph, and they’ll run deeper if you add a split shot or two. But I always have a 2-inch swimbait-like a Storm WildEye Swimshad or Creme Spoiler Shad-in my spread, too. Long-line trolling is a favorite summertime crappie tactic, and standard procedure calls for pulling jigs or crankbaits. Crappies: Score Slabs With Swimbaits Go deep with long-line trolling tactics. Bass: Land Hogs in a Strip-Mine Lake Summer strip-mine lake fishing. “And with the hooks located above the sinker, hangups are infrequent.” -D.W.ħ. “You often catch two fish on each presentation,” he says. When rigged with either a small tube jig or a live minnow, the stiff leaders will stand out from the main line, which looks mighty enticing to the fish.” Morgan lowers the sinker straight down until he feels it tap a stump, then he begins to reel the rig up slowly. “I get cheap 30-pound catfish line from the tackle shop’s bargain bin. “The secret is using stiff, springy mono for your leaders,” he says. He attaches a heavy bell sinker to the tag end of his line and stacks two 6-inch dropper lines 18 inches apart above the sinker with double clinch knots. Nashville crappie guru Harold Morgan has perfected a rig that lets him probe deep, snaggy cover where summer slabs lurk-without constantly hanging up.
Probe snaggy cover where summer slabs lurk. Trick Pickerel on the Surface Throw a stickbait when the summer gets hot to catch more pickerel. It shouldn’t be long until a cow striper loads on. Cut the bait into chunks or fillets, thread a couple of sushi pieces onto the hook, cast, and then chill for a spell with a cool beverage. Use a cast net to snare gizzard shad, or catch skipjack or blueback herring with a small spoon. Attach a 3-foot mono leader (same test as main line) to the opposite end of the swivel with a 6/0 to 9/0 circle or octopus bait hook at the business end. Thread a 1- to 3-ounce egg sinker onto the line, then tie a big barrel swivel to the tag end. Rig a stout baitcasting outfit with 20- to 40-pound mono. These fish are lethargic but can be tempted by fishing cut bait-or what I like to call striper sushi-on the bottom. On hot days, big landlocked stripers retreat to deep river holes and the cool channels of slack-water reservoirs.
Go deep to catch landlocked striped bass all summer.
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