Last week Jim and I went to Starvation in hopes of getting in on the ice-off bite. We loaded up at 5am and hit the road. We arrived a few minutes after sunrise and it was chilly! We launched the boat and went to one of the lanes that have been good to us in previous years and put the lines out. Running popgear and worms looking for some big browns and bows.
We trolled through these lanes for a good hour and got nothing and seen less on the Hummingbird. We moved areas and changed up tactics and still looking for a fish on the finder. We tired of trolling and finally found a large pod of fish on a rock outcropping and stopped and jigged for an hour or so, Jim even went as far as putting on "POWER BAIT"! Still didn't help!
We moved to the dam, an area I haven't fished much and figured out why. Got nothing. However, as we trolled away from the dam I finally got a fish to bite. Nothing big but it had fins, gills, and breathed water so it qualified. Nocked the stink off the boat!
We continued on since nothing was showing on the finder and then moved back across the lake to the cliffs. Along the way, I put on a Rapala and kicked it up to 1.8. Another little rainbow came to visit the boat and Jim landed it.
Yes, we dang near got skunked, spent 6 hours to catch these two fish. After we loaded up we talked with another couple of boats that just got off the water. The one capt. asked how we did and I said "not worth a tinker's", he replied: "oh well I feel good then, we got one fish to the boat." I didn't want to hurt his feelings but I did tell him we got two, he walked away. We marked very few fish all day long and covered a lot of water. Hopefully, we get into them next time.
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