08-21-2006, 03:51 PM
My family and I spent the last 3 days on vacation at Mustang Ridge. I made the mistake of thinking this was going to be a fishing trip, but with the younger kids, it turned into a real family vacation. I did get out on Friday morning looking for macks. We started out in front of Mustang campground, but was unable to find any real concentrations of fish. So we moved to the point off the large island near the dam. There were fish stacked up there at various depths. By then it was mid morning, so we tried for rainbows. There was a good school of rainbows on the north side of the island. We were getting hits every time we passed there in about 30 ft of water. The fish were small, so we called it a morning.
Friday evening I headed out to Jarvies to try for macks again. I found a good school of them off the point in the main channel. They were hanging around 90'. I trolled for them for about two hours (the last two hours of the day) with no hookups. It appeared that they would look at my lure because they would come up a few feet with each pass, to the depth of my lure. I could see my downrigger ball on my fishfinder, so I know I was getting the lure near the fish. They just were not interested in what I was presenting. I am new to this mack fishing thing, but it sure is fun trying. The anticipation is much different than fishing for rainbows and other smaller fish.
This was definitely the first of many trips in search of the big one.
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Friday evening I headed out to Jarvies to try for macks again. I found a good school of them off the point in the main channel. They were hanging around 90'. I trolled for them for about two hours (the last two hours of the day) with no hookups. It appeared that they would look at my lure because they would come up a few feet with each pass, to the depth of my lure. I could see my downrigger ball on my fishfinder, so I know I was getting the lure near the fish. They just were not interested in what I was presenting. I am new to this mack fishing thing, but it sure is fun trying. The anticipation is much different than fishing for rainbows and other smaller fish.
This was definitely the first of many trips in search of the big one.
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