Dropping a Line

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By Robert Johnson – With the cooler weather, not a lot of anglers have been out this last week and most of the guides are soaking up the sun in Florida or someplace warm with big fish. Or they’re doing sport shows ‘til March to book trips for the warmer weather around the corner.

My sidekick and 2nd boat, Johnny of big1sstriperguide, had a striper trip on Sun with Scott Logan from Springdale, getting two nice stripers right there in sight of Hwy. 12 bridge outside of Rogers. Water temp was down to 45° with  cold drizzle, which put the bait and fish down close to 30 ft. deep.

With the warmer weather we’re having this week it should come back up above 46°, so they should move back up on the flats again and be catchable freelining again without any weights.

Here at Holiday Island the walleye and spotted bass seem to be the most active, holding down about 18 ft. deep and moving up on the flats with the bait and a little Sun. We’ve got about six more weeks to go until all breaks loose, with most our fish moving up the creeks and rivers to spawn. Walleye are already up where they have current  to lay their eggs.

Well, we’re not doing any sport shows this year, just running our show special here and on line with the striper trips going for $50 off for 2 people to fish any part of 2017 if in the books by the end of this month. So I’m working here getting all ready for March to come in full swing. And I’m staying warm. If the phone rings and somebody gets the fever then we can get the boat wet, but until then she’s staying nice and dry with me. If it doesn’t ring I just might have to go down here at the Island when we hit that 60° mark again Thursday.

Well, that’s it for this week. Stay warm and get your tackle in order for the days are getting longer, which also tells them fish what to do with them eggs.