catfish/mexico bay

[freespirit1]

fished Saturday-did 3 cookie cutters in 50" of water 35' down only fish I saw on the graph nothing inside fished fro 10 to 11:30--- it only can get better ???

[steelfire]

We fished in 10' of water and were running our boards about 10' off of shore and did really well all week. Try fishing shallower.

[Jeremy Goodison]

What lures are guys running in water under 5'?

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[Landshark]

Michigan stingers and or shallow stickbaits. There are a lot of baits that will run just under the surface

[Jeremy Goodison]

Appearantly none in my box lol. Time to go shopping

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[Landshark]

The small storm thundersticks, sebile swing tail minnows, yozuri pin minnows,  rapala original floaters 9 and below. those are a few if you wanna dip into the skinny water.  My best bait is the Johnson Slimfish in all gold   1/2oz

[Rich D]

The difference that Steelfire had and catfish area, was there was color west of Oz. if you can find the color in Mexico, you will get fish. If there is an offshore wind, we start our trips earlier, leaving the dock at 500 at the latest. Saturday we were able to get a few to go before the armada joined us. Clear water equals early trips and long long leads!!! Hopefully Mother Nature will change her winds this week and give us the west winds we need!!

Capt Rich

[steelfire]

Rich is correct. We had travel way west of Oswego to find the color water. It was stacked up in some of the coves behind the big points. And it was only coming out off of the shore maybe 10 to 20 yards, but loaded with fish. We would run our planner boards right thru it. Stingers with Chartreuse on them did most of the damage. We had a few on small sticks also in chartreuse. The stingers had a small spit shot about 10 feet up the line to get them down a little bit. We also did well with the NBK stingers.

Chartreuse stinger

 

 

 

Chartreuse sticks

 

Edited May 1, 2016 by steelfire