They catch a bunch on minnows up there in winter. But it is painfully slow fishing similiar to float-n-fly. Light line and hook letting it free spool sometimes a split shot but small.
Another way you can catch them in winter there or anywhere is find those small gravel sloped banks and use the small compact jigs either hair or rubber but a good crawfish color.
If fishing on the deep side of a point cast to bank, let sink, then crank it bank really slow not hoping but similiar to a crankbait maintining contact to bottom. Once you lose contact stop and let line out getting it back down. Work it down the slope back to you. Just the opposite for sitting shallow casting to the deep side of a point. Work it back to you slowly.
Let the bank determine which approach you use...a sharp sloping bank (sit shallow cast deep) .....a gradual sloping bank (sit off in a deeper cast shallow).
Smallies love this in cold water.
Last edited by Travis C.; 01-26-2012 at 09:17 AM.
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