11-12-2021, 02:43 PM
Guess I should have taken some crickets yesterday... Hit Hyrum for my traditional Veterans Day trip, except it was without Rich this year, missed having my fishing companion there for the trip... But it wasn't a trip like usual, I really struggled to get a bite, in fact after a couple hours of nothing in the Perch attempts, I decided to try a little trolling for trout, just to avoid the skunk... Good thing I put my trolling rod in, the trout treated me right and after 3 or four missed hits I finally got my hook set dialed in and landed 3 or 4 fish before my motor quit on me... After pulling it back to the ramp, (I was only a hundred yards or so away) and getting it loaded I found my gas line had just come unhooked... anyway the trout were 12" planters other than one nice 14+"er, so nothing to brag about other than saving a failed trip...
I did get my ice ducer working on my Helix, it was totally not recognizing that transducer, but the Humminbird help desk got me all fixed up, so that saved a ruined ice trip later... However, it's really hard to go back to just a little 2D picture of what is going on below ya... I've really got to liking the side finder, so I can't wait for the 360 to show up... I just worry that I'll be moving too much as I see the fish around me, but not under me... That was part of my problem yesterday, I'd see a good area and anchor down and try to catch some perch and after a few chases the fish would disappear, so I'd pull anchor and try to drift onto them and that didn't seem to work, so I'd switch transducers and move the boat to an area where I'd see a bunch of fish on the side finder and repeat the same thing after switching transducers.... It took a lot of time and I didn't get enough fish to chase to decide what i needed to do different... Must have been what I was using they didn't want... Should have tried something else, but usually a small piece of night crawler will get bit on a small jig body most anytime.... tried fligs, cut'r bugs, tungstens tipped with fatheads, crawlers and crappie nibbles... nothing was interested...
Water level is up over 10' from the low that I fished in September, not sure I like the level coming up, it's not as easy to find the fish.... Usually my V-day trip lets me know where to ice fish, but I really am having a tough time finding areas where the fish are hanging this year... I think it's going to be a difficult ice season this year... Later J
I did get my ice ducer working on my Helix, it was totally not recognizing that transducer, but the Humminbird help desk got me all fixed up, so that saved a ruined ice trip later... However, it's really hard to go back to just a little 2D picture of what is going on below ya... I've really got to liking the side finder, so I can't wait for the 360 to show up... I just worry that I'll be moving too much as I see the fish around me, but not under me... That was part of my problem yesterday, I'd see a good area and anchor down and try to catch some perch and after a few chases the fish would disappear, so I'd pull anchor and try to drift onto them and that didn't seem to work, so I'd switch transducers and move the boat to an area where I'd see a bunch of fish on the side finder and repeat the same thing after switching transducers.... It took a lot of time and I didn't get enough fish to chase to decide what i needed to do different... Must have been what I was using they didn't want... Should have tried something else, but usually a small piece of night crawler will get bit on a small jig body most anytime.... tried fligs, cut'r bugs, tungstens tipped with fatheads, crawlers and crappie nibbles... nothing was interested...
Water level is up over 10' from the low that I fished in September, not sure I like the level coming up, it's not as easy to find the fish.... Usually my V-day trip lets me know where to ice fish, but I really am having a tough time finding areas where the fish are hanging this year... I think it's going to be a difficult ice season this year... Later J
When things get stressful think I'll go fish'en and worry about it tomorrow!