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Wife and I are going next week Friday and Saturday to fish in the big Sandy area, haven't seen much about the bite and would just like an idea where to start. We fished down there towards the end of the spawn this spring and had a great time. We like to long line and spider rig, any help will be greatly appreciated! PM me if you don't want on public site.
Thanks in advance,
Ray and Audrey
Fish ain't hungry in West Sandy. I just got home from a 4 day stay.
Was out for 4 hours this morning and caught a lot of small ones. I did catch 1 red ear that measured 10 3/4" long and nearly 2" thick. :biggrin
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Last few weeks catching a few short fish and even fewer keepers from Port Road haven't found where the adult table is
same story here also. we've been catching a lot of fish just not much size to 'em. stay with it and you can catch enough for supper.
Yep. We did managed supper. Had one 14 incher. That was almost supper. Cow pasture stick fish.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kenlake slab
I fished farther south in Birdsong yesterday with the same kind of luck. Tried spider rigging but the fish seemed very tight to cover. Only one nice keeper but several very short fish. Good eating size cats added some excitement though. Did not try out on the main river.
Thanks for the reports, from the above it looks like we will catch fish and maybe some good numbers but most will be short, which I'd rather catch 20 shorts to one keeper as long as I'm catching enough to keep it from getting boring.
Thanks for the feed back!
A buddy and I kept 29 yesterday. We spider rigged big sandy with minnows very light bite.
What speed y'all trolling at? About 2mph?? Jk.:fish
Long lining I usually start at .8 mph, fastest I've caught them was 1.2 mph and slowest was .4. Wife and I fished Friday and didn't catch a keeper, we wanted to get out past the power lines but the wind didn't allow that. We did catch a lot of short fish so it wasn't boring at all, from 8 to 4 caught 60 to 80 shorts with a yellow belly mixed in every once and a while. Of coarse after the fact we were told they are catching them meaning keepers in Blood river. Didn't fish Saturday or Sunday but will be back up there the weekend before Christmas. :)
Good luck,
Ray
Lots of short fish means a great year class ( or several year class) fishing coming soon to your local lake.
I guess we'll just have to practice on them until they grow up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cane Pole
Fished Sandy today only 2 keepers a bunch of those stinkin yellow belly bass missing up my line.
Try trolling in 5 foot of water, about 2.2 mph with black & chartreuse or with blue black chartreuse, try the back of the coves early in the mornings, look for the shad. LOL Try this you will catch fish.
Back of lots our coves are dry land now. Lake is down 5 feet. Other coves have a land bridge blocking entrance and we also have hidden sand points everywhere. If you are not familiar with the lake, well God help yo skag.
Went out yesterday, beautiful day, the lake was glassy hardly no wind, perfect.....caught only 4 keepers, but they were all over 12 inches, one was 14 inches, caught them in 14ft of water holding tight to cover, had to troll extra slow about .2 -.3 mph.