Garfield the cat
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Just wondering has the rain improved your fishing or decreased yur catching?????? Haven't been out since the rain. Try it tomorrow
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I did better today than Sunday but in no way it was because of rain. It was because there was nobody around and my footsteps on shore were the only ones after the rain. In the creek I fished today there was a few fish in each pool, I landed 5, all were drop backs. 2 weeks ago you would get a mix of drop backs and fresh runs. So I think the rain has not pushed any fish in, perhaps there is nothing to run.
However, the rain appears to have pushed a lot of suckers in. The pools that were cleared of suckers last week were loaded with them again.
Good luck tomorrow
salmotrutta
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This is a great time of year to fish during the rain..with worms. An overcast and rainy day like Monday.
Float_On
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+1
Ive caught all my fish on worms this year (since opening)...
Started on saturday for 3hours on roe-bags, nadda bite...
Threw a dew worm on and hooked up first drift.
Have not gone back to roe.
Anyone else have this success pattern this season?
How do you keep the little ones away? for every sizeable bow I catch, 10 smaller ones are caught before that. They swallow everything (bugger baint-ruiners) :smile:
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RiverNinja
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Oddly enough, I have caught all my bows on roe.. and I did very well on opener, :mrgreen:
Float_On
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Whats wrong with little ones? The little guys are a blast to fight...
Oddly, i was getting more suckers & chubs on roe bags than i am on worms.
Ive only hooked 1 sucker, a nice one too, since going to worms.
Spinninreel
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I think the rain has helped, since it has muddied up the water a little.
salmotrutta
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I think he's referring to smolts. I'm surprised they're active already, usually they become active once things warm up and the insects are out in full force. Not much you can do besides using larger bait, switching pools or trying spinners. Eventually, you'll get to know your regular spots well enough to be able to avoid them more or less.
uba01
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Same here..
Roe worked last time.. Few trips before it was all flies..
Worms never worked for me.. Guess everything works.. Just gotta try all and see
Float_On
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Ya, we deliberate til the cows come home...
In the end, its probably the presentation that is the winner...
If it looks natural in the fish's mind, then they eat it. No matter if its a worm, egg, fly, minnow...
hightechdecks
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heavily pressured pool on opener walked up and 3 fish in three drifts on fake waxies
fishingbimmer
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I'm going to have to agree. I recall a day last year when I was at a spot that I was positive had steelhead in it. After multiple attempts (at least an hour) of drifting a worm with my weight a short distance from the bait I decided to get rid of the weight altogether - there was very little current so this didn't present a problem. Almost immediately I landed a beautiful 4 pounder. Presentation is key!
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FishingNoob
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How do you get a lure to smell like live bait? Thanks
fishingbimmer
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I know there are attractant scents that come in spray bottles - i think berkley makes a few of them. I've also heard of people using cod liver oil which you can probably get at most health food stores. I haven't used either.
Spinninreel
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The majority of a steelhead's brain which is the size of a pea, is used for the purpose of smell.
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Blair
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*SMILES* .... the majority of a "STEELHEADER'S BRAIN" is used for the purpose of figuring out how to get out and fish more!
Do fish find the bait by sight or smell?
by Mike on March 19, 2010
The sense of smell is highly developed in fish and it is probably mainly through this sense that they Iocate their food. Scientists, however, have not yet been able to determine accurately the relative perceptive powers of the various sense organs in fish: Most fish, it is believed, are attracted to the bait by both the sense of smell and sight. The sense of smell is highly developed in most fish and many species are probably attracted to the bait chiefly by that sense. A few years ago the United States Fish and WildlifeService declared: “From what is known at present it is believed that the senseof smell, along with that of touch, plays a greater role in the life of a fish,as far as obtaining its food is concerned, than that of sight.†Fish thatdepend upon the sense of smell to locate the bait are not easily caught by artificial baits, whereas fish that bite chiefly by sight are most easily caught by such baits. The sense of sight in most fish seems to be limited more to the perception of changing lights and shadows, and they will snap most quickly at a moving object. There is a common but erroneous notion that a fishsmells with its gills. The nose is the seat of the smelling sense in all fish.The Canadian Fisheries Research Board reported some years ago that as a general rule the warmer the water the larger the pieces of food swallowed by a fish.Fishermen were advised to use small pieces of bait when the water is cold and larger pieces when the water is warm.
