Great fish. What technique were you using if you don't mind sharing?

Trolling shallow 4-5' rattling suspending jerkbaits at 1.5 mph. Lucky craft pointer 128 and 158 in aurora black is always hot.

You won't catch them on husky jerks, which are very similar. No idea why, it almost always has to be a pointer. Often slight twitches or slow very small pulls or stops trigger the hit.

Trolling over mid lake humps and especially the windward edge of drop offs. Sometimes windward sides of islands, but more often the edge of humps, or on top.

Sometimes they are in 12 fow, sometimes 5. Sometimes weed, sometimes rock, sometimes both.


If you cast you will catch nothing. Tried it lots. Nadda. Something about Trolling slow.

What they want is shockingly specific sometimes. Some nights they want white lures. I've found that if there's a lot of light in the sky, visible moon perhaps they like the silvery aurora black. If it's overcast or moon is down white can be better

Keep rippin' them up. Thanks for the tips.