Haha, early spring no matter what I threw I caught rainbows. So you are not alone. Usually if crawdads are part of the forage in a lake, rainbows will eat them too. SO fishing tubes may lead to a few rainbow catches here and there.
Oops, Rainbows at Aurora
Fished Sunday morning in the back cove adjacent to the scuba beach. I actually went to fish for smallies with tube jigs. I was casting from my float tube towards the shore
without much luck. I dropped my tube jig straight down to check the depth and a 12 inch rainbow smacked it.
I thought a small rainbow hitting a 3 inch tube jig was odd.
Usually they don't go after bigger baits until the fall.
Seven rainbows later I was convinced it was not an accident. Am I alone or am I the only one who goes to a lake looking for a certain species and ends up catching something totally different? Oh well, had a great day anyway!
Hammer
without much luck. I dropped my tube jig straight down to check the depth and a 12 inch rainbow smacked it.
I thought a small rainbow hitting a 3 inch tube jig was odd.
Usually they don't go after bigger baits until the fall.
Seven rainbows later I was convinced it was not an accident. Am I alone or am I the only one who goes to a lake looking for a certain species and ends up catching something totally different? Oh well, had a great day anyway!
Hammer
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A buddy of mine fished there on Saturday. A ranger told them that someone caught a 14 pound walleye last week.
CROIKEY!!JohnnyO19 said:A buddy of mine fished there on Saturday. A ranger told them that someone caught a 14 pound walleye last week.
Hmmmm, a 14 pounder? Wish I had caught that.
Dan
Dan
That happens to me all the time. Was fishing for muskie at Quincy and kept catching bass on a huge flatfish. Also when fishing for cats, I always catch them dang carp. Seems like I have a huge catfish on only to find out it is just a carp.
thats aurora res for ya.
good fishery,rarely get skunked.no matter what ya get.
good fishery,rarely get skunked.no matter what ya get.
Not at all odd. Trout hit big baits all the time and regularly attack baitfish up to 1/3 their body length. I catch tons of trout way smaller than that on 4" plastics, 4" rapalas, and big spinners and spoons. Trout are just slobbering, pathetically aggressive predators.Hammer said:Fished Sunday morning in the back cove adjacent to the scuba beach. I actually went to fish for smallies with tube jigs. I was casting from my float tube towards the shore
without much luck. I dropped my tube jig straight down to check the depth and a 12 inch rainbow smacked it.
I thought a small rainbow hitting a 3 inch tube jig was odd.
Usually they don't go after bigger baits until the fall.
Seven rainbows later I was convinced it was not an accident. Am I alone or am I the only one who goes to a lake looking for a certain species and ends up catching something totally different? Oh well, had a great day anyway!
Hammer
"thats aurora res for ya.
good fishery,rarely get skunked.no matter what ya get.'
Piker, are u serious? It seem I, and several others, always have a tough time at Aurora.
If u are serious what do we need to be doing?
Thanks,
good fishery,rarely get skunked.no matter what ya get.'
Piker, are u serious? It seem I, and several others, always have a tough time at Aurora.
If u are serious what do we need to be doing?
Thanks,
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