Fishing Report, Weiss, 24 Feb 2017
Tough day today. Perhaps my fishing bud and I are stuck in a rut - we only managed 15 keepers today. We pushed jigs and we vertical jigged - got more strikes vertical jigging - sometimes casting and letting it fall into the fish. Strange thing, we could find fish and when we came back around, they were gone; phantom fish. After working the 20-24 FOW depths, we moved in to 8 FOW and didn't do any better. Maybe they are moving further upstream toward spawning grounds. I dunno.
I did get a chance to talk with the guy behind the cash register at Little River Marina and he said they had checked in 5 money fish thus far. He also said most of the money fish were taken by clients of the guides. He also said the guides average about 1 money fish per day. Not saying anything bad here, just the facts. Also, the tag colors are key to the payout. Pink tags pay $50/fish and the yellow tags are the real money fish ($1000 and $10,000). So if you catch a money fish, head to the dock because they must be presented alive.
