Thursday, April 29, 2010

The results are in. Blake(308) and I fished from 10 pm until 2am. He did most of the throwing while I changed lures and removed the fish, but I gave him short breaks. Overall we caught just over 40 trout with only one keeper. I attribute this to using rather small lures. The 15 lures pictured were all tandem rigs. Only the Mirror lure M4 was a single. References to position are from top to bottom.
First place by a large margin was the small sassy shad(numbers 1,2 and 12). Second was a surprise. The Storm(number 14) often caught two at a time. It has a reflective material inside and that seemed to help. Third place went to the clear with flecks cocohoe(number 7). This one would have done better, but the fourth fish bit one of the tails off and then it didn't work so well. The Mirror lure caught fish, but the treble hooks were difficult to dislodge and I felt we were injuring too many fish with that bait.
The Worm Puzzler(number 9), the clear Beetle(number 11) and the Trout Killer(number 13) did not catch a fish. I have used the Trout Killer before with good success. This one was a double white and I had never used that combination.
The wind decreased at 12:30 and the conditions were very nice after that.
In summary, I would say the smaller lures with glitter and glitz or a lot of wiggle seemed to do the best. When the trout are plentiful they try to grab a bait before another trout does and any kind of darting motion of small bait makes them instinctively strike. The reflective baits probably caught their eye better than just the swimming baits.
The success of lures is highly dependent on the type of prey fish the predators are feeding on at the time. Right now it seems to be glass minnows. When shrimp become more abundant, the lure choices may have to be realigned.

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