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Posted on March 1, 2016 at 09:40:12 PM by BMH
Here is some great day-bite info from long ago (the 90s)-- (I'm still looking for nite-bite info for another post and came across the below)
Long Live Sunbury
-Slameye on Saugeye!
Don't drift. Saugeye will hold on very SPECIFIC structure (wood,
rock piles, incline, decline, etc..) If you are drifting, your bait
is not going to be on the spot. Work the point with your electric
motor. Learn where the rocks are, or where the inside turn of a
point is. Don't fish blind or by happenstance. Once you know where
on a point you need to be you can go back in and work only the areas
that will hold fish. It will increase your catch rate tremendously.
On a different note.
I have noticed a lot of "where are they" questions. Guys, you need
to spend some more time learning the lake. You could probably catch
fish on just about every point on Alum. No one can give you an exact
location anyway because they would be gone the next day anyway. I
fished Alum when I first got a boat, and the first 2 years I probably
caught 12 saugeye. Two of many reasons for this.
1. I drfited
2. I did not try to learn the bottom of the lake.
Once I started looking at the lake, studing the bottom, making notes
of where a drop off was on a point, etc.. my catches went way up.
When I knew where the structure was, I could use my trolling motor
and put my bait in the zone 100% of the time instead of drifting
through it for a couple minutes. I used to give exact locations,
until I saw guys that putting 8" saugeye in their wells. Guys I knew
were members of this site, and got the info from me. I will help
anyone with how, or when, or what, but not EXACTLY where. A lot of
these guys will help point you in the right direction, but it is up
to you to do the dirty work, we all have. Guys give depths, baits,
colors, even general vicinity, Terry even posts water Temp from top
to bottom, that should be good enough to get you started. PLEASE
don't take this the wrong way, I am not trying to bash anyone, just
trying to be helpful. We all love to help out other guys, but that
person has to be willing to learn. Ask all the questions you want!!
We would all love to answer them. I wish this site was around when I
started fishing, would have made me a better fisherman about a
thousand times faster.
Slameye
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