WHY NOT TRY THIS

[rapala]

WANT TO CATCH THE BIG ONES?????  This worked for me many times!!!  I would start fishing at 10AM , most of the fishing boats are in at the docks.  I would  check out with them where they were fishing, how did it go . Than I would set up about a 1/2 mile deeper water.  The big ones are loaners and stay away from the pack where most of the fleet catch the easy ones .  SMALL ones.   Fish in 40 degree water, go  close to bottom like 5 to 10 feet  go as slow as you can, that your bait is working RIGHT. You might not catch alot of fish BUT the one you do catch ARE BIG.  The big ones like cold temp, they are big and fat and move slow,  you have to but bait right in front of them because they are lazy to get a easy meal.  I fished for 20 years on Ontario and in the marina  fished out of I was known to catch the big ones.  I fished by myself, it was nothing for me to have 3 slobs on at the same time. 

[GAMBLER]

14 hours ago, rapala said:

WANT TO CATCH THE BIG ONES?????  This worked for me many times!!!  I would start fishing at 10AM , most of the fishing boats are in at the docks.  I would  check out with them where they were fishing, how did it go . Than I would set up about a 1/2 mile deeper water.  The big ones are loaners and stay away from the pack where most of the fleet catch the easy ones .  SMALL ones.   Fish in 40 degree water, go  close to bottom like 5 to 10 feet  go as slow as you can, that your bait is working RIGHT. You might not catch alot of fish BUT the one you do catch ARE BIG.  The big ones like cold temp, they are big and fat and move slow,  you have to but bait right in front of them because they are lazy to get a easy meal.  I fished for 20 years on Ontario and in the marina  fished out of I was known to catch the big ones.  I fished by myself, it was nothing for me to have 3 slobs on at the same time. 

Big ones like cold temps in May, June, July and the beginning of August.  Once they start staging, things change.  As for the rest of the advice, I can agree with most of it.  

[HB2]

Since the temp came up high in my area , most of the kings  I catch are out of ice water . Temp has been at 40 ft  or so . I run lures at and above  and they get hit but most are 20 ft below the temp break in 45 deg water. That includes 3 brown . And I am marking them down there and deeper also . 

 

I have been saying for years , temp is overated . 

Edited August 29, 2023 by HB2

[Yankee Troller]

8 hours ago, GAMBLER said:

Big ones like cold temps in May, June, July and the beginning of August.  Once they start staging, things change. 

 

My experience as well. The fish I'm pulling down 150-1200' offshore in the ice water right now are next years crop.

[SmilinEd1]

On 8/28/2023 at 9:15 AM, rapala said:

WANT TO CATCH THE BIG ONES?????  This worked for me many times!!!  I would start fishing at 10AM , most of the fishing boats are in at the docks.  I would  check out with them where they were fishing, how did it go . Than I would set up about a 1/2 mile deeper water.  The big ones are loaners and stay away from the pack where most of the fleet catch the easy ones .  SMALL ones.   Fish in 40 degree water, go  close to bottom like 5 to 10 feet  go as slow as you can, that your bait is working RIGHT. You might not catch alot of fish BUT the one you do catch ARE BIG.  The big ones like cold temp, they are big and fat and move slow,  you have to but bait right in front of them because they are lazy to get a easy meal.  I fished for 20 years on Ontario and in the marina  fished out of I was known to catch the big ones.  I fished by myself, it was nothing for me to have 3 slobs on at the same time. 

The "Big Ones" sound like the guys I fish with..😆

Edited August 31, 2023 by SmilinEd1