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Location: Waconia,MN | I tried fishing today and no luck. It was real busy today so i was wondering if the fish go deeper when there is lots of traffic on the water? |
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Location: northern indiana | I've caught 2 fish in the last 2 years that were prop chewed. |
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Location: Waconia,MN | I've caught fish that where pretty marked up on this same lake. |
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| What they do I cannot say, but I have seen certain locations on high traffic water where the activity of the wild life (forage and predators) seems to coincide with lower traffic times. The fish are very in tune with their environment. IMO, it is no different than the trend you see on high pressure waters towards fish feeding nocturnally. It isn't a 100%, nothing with these fish is 100%, but I think it is saft to say it can happen. |
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Location: Ames, Iowa | IMO, it is no different than the trend you see on high pressure waters towards fish feeding nocturnally.
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Location: oswego, il | troll. I have had good luck trolling high traffic waters. they do key on prop wash during those times. out on heidecke lake when they have a shad bloom, the seaguls follow your boat by the hundreds scoping the prop wash. |
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| Some would argue that the very biggest fish around are in deep water structure, structure being defined as spires, weed patches, pods of baitfish and the thermocline, almost all the time. But pleasure boaters mostly use the outter third of the lake. So, forget the drops and fish the inner 2/3 of the water.
If you must, one way to use pleasure boats to your advantage is to watch for surfacing bait in their lanes. Once the ski boat passes gun in and throw to the predators that are taking advantage of the disrupted pod. Crazy twitch a suspendo about 4' down all the way back to the boat with one rod, and have yer buddy rip a heavy bucktail with another rod. Thro back is aalways jig/creature or jig/sucker minnow, light jig with a slow fall because if you get below 10' you are under the hot fish.
Hope that's helpful. |
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Location: Ontario | I agree with Todd. Troll busy waters. Pretty quick too. |
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| try a tactic change. get out before the crowd or fish atnight.
rainy/cloudy days. |
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High traffic water.