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Did some float tube fishing at the Lagoon this weekend. Fished Sat and Sun from opening to noon. It's been a while since I've fished here (10 years?), its also been a while since I've been skunked. Ouch... Lol. I guess I have some dues to pay at the again Lagoon before the fish show some respect.
Bait fish where everywhere in the morning and the bass were active til about 9am. I found a spot where the baitfish seemed to be concentrated. It was looking good. They were jumping out of the water all around me. I could not get them to bite SMH. I matched the baitfish with some tiny flukes and rigged two up to give a "mini schooling" effect, fished a CD5, then went deeper with the drop shop and even Senkos. Got one fish on and broke it off on a Senko about 10am Sat... total bummer. The hook I used was too small and I didn't get a good hookset because of it. Switched from a thin Senko to a regular and got lazy and didn't put a bigger hook on. That will teach me. It was one of those days where the fish were active but I could not get them to bite. I'd move from a spot and look back and bass were clearing out of the water right where I had been as if to say FU. I even pulled out my trout rod with 4lb floro line to see if they were line shy... nada. The water wasn't super clear so I doubted that was the issue. I fished on top, surface, mid levels, off the bottom, on the bottom. Fished the shallow structure/cover and even found a pocket of fish at about 15' deep on some deeper structure. Slowed it way down as well. It was a frustrating 2 DAYS, for fishing that is. Still better than being at home or work, thats for sure. I saw a couple catches by other anglers but not much. Others were commenting on how slow it was compared to the weekend before so I didn't feel too bad, although I'm not used to getting skunked much less a two day snowman. Met another float tuber who was really cool. Shout out to Steve!
I'm new to float tubing maybe I screwed that up somehow. I'm used to fishing from a boat. Any tips for the Lagoon? I used to go there years ago and 4" clear worms w/ black flake and yellow tipped curly tails used to work pretty well for me then. It didn't this time. I threw a whole tackle store soft plastic section at them. I'll be back very soon to get my revenge.
Bait fish where everywhere in the morning and the bass were active til about 9am. I found a spot where the baitfish seemed to be concentrated. It was looking good. They were jumping out of the water all around me. I could not get them to bite SMH. I matched the baitfish with some tiny flukes and rigged two up to give a "mini schooling" effect, fished a CD5, then went deeper with the drop shop and even Senkos. Got one fish on and broke it off on a Senko about 10am Sat... total bummer. The hook I used was too small and I didn't get a good hookset because of it. Switched from a thin Senko to a regular and got lazy and didn't put a bigger hook on. That will teach me. It was one of those days where the fish were active but I could not get them to bite. I'd move from a spot and look back and bass were clearing out of the water right where I had been as if to say FU. I even pulled out my trout rod with 4lb floro line to see if they were line shy... nada. The water wasn't super clear so I doubted that was the issue. I fished on top, surface, mid levels, off the bottom, on the bottom. Fished the shallow structure/cover and even found a pocket of fish at about 15' deep on some deeper structure. Slowed it way down as well. It was a frustrating 2 DAYS, for fishing that is. Still better than being at home or work, thats for sure. I saw a couple catches by other anglers but not much. Others were commenting on how slow it was compared to the weekend before so I didn't feel too bad, although I'm not used to getting skunked much less a two day snowman. Met another float tuber who was really cool. Shout out to Steve!
I'm new to float tubing maybe I screwed that up somehow. I'm used to fishing from a boat. Any tips for the Lagoon? I used to go there years ago and 4" clear worms w/ black flake and yellow tipped curly tails used to work pretty well for me then. It didn't this time. I threw a whole tackle store soft plastic section at them. I'll be back very soon to get my revenge.
