Pickwick 10-05-2012..tungsten jigs heads.
Headed to Pickwick this morning hoping to get in one last day of fishing this week before the front comes in. For anyone who is wanting to fish tail race it is still really too early for the Whites to come up and stay a little while as they do each Fall. Plenty of water today but not a single fish below the dam...not for me and the other 5 who were fishing for the 30 minutes I tried there. Headed up to the point in the lake that is close to main river channel. Tied on one of my new tungsten jig heads and put on a Bison colored Trout Magnet. While the profile of this jig head is smaller than a lead 1/32 head it weighs far more. I could cast it a long way. I counted down 30 seconds...it is falling at a foot a second. I proceeded to catch 50 gills in the 7 to 8 inch range. No trophies but really solid Gills. I have tried to convey in a pic how thick they are but not sure it will come across in photo. All of the Gills I caught were males...7 to 8 inches long. If there was ever a day to keep some Gills this would have been it.....they would have yielded some nice filets...but I did not keep a one. After catching about 30 of the Gills it come to me I had not hooked the first Smallie. It is unusual to fish that point and not get a few. So I put on the color "Purple Redemption". I caught 7 Smallies in the 9 inch range and 8 at the 12 inch mark. Using a tungsten jig head is going to allow me to catch more fish in the Winter...at least Gills...I think. For those who might ask why I don't just use a bigger lead head than the 1/64 Trout Magnet jig head the answer is to have more weight with the tungsten yet keep my offering as small as possible. No way I could have cast to where I did today even with a 1/32 head. Fishing with a tungsten head also gives one a lot more sensitivity...IMHO. I could really feel the tap as the fish would hit...and I was down 30 feet. I could also feel a lot of the fish hit on the fall as I got close to the 30 second mark. The drawback of course is cost...but I am going to continue to fish them through Winter and see if I can get some of those trophy Gills that hunker down deep in the Winter.
Regards
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