Christmas Eve Fishing

[agelesssone]

Jimmy, for fishing GSP, take your pick....Thursday, Friday both look good weatherwise. Better than going on Saturday cause it'll probably be full of boats on Saturday. We can hit it at daylight. Can't go before because of the logs in the river. Have to see what is coming at us.

[GoFish_Tony]

My son and I were at the GSP on Christmas day from about 11:30 - 1:30. Was 4 other boats in the channel all within sight of the plant. My fishfinder battery went dead on me so i can't tell you what the temperature was. We talked to a couple of the boats and they were struggling (as were we) to get fish in the boat. We saw a few Skip's get caught as well as a few (I assume White Bass.)

It's tough driving 9 hours to get here only to get skunked, but we are getting used to it. We never got a bite. Will try it again on Thursday morning. Will head over to the Cumberland Power plant next week sometime next week.

We were hoping to get some Skip Jack here at the GSP A big Catfish or Striper would have been nice too. Heck a Carp would have at least cleaned the skunk off the boat! LOL. My son was throwing store bought Sabiki rigs and I was throwing 1/8 jigs with 2" curly tails of varying colors. Also tried a Foley Spoon with no luck.

If any of you could offer us a tip or two I would be much obliged.

We will be in a 1860 Center Console G3. It's not hard to spot as it has a dozen rod holders mounted all around it. If you see us feel free to stop over and say hi.

T.

[Travis C.]

Originally Posted by GoFish_Tony

If any of you could offer us a tip or two I would be much obliged.

T.

If Whites are anywhere around its hard to beat an inline spinner like a Rooster Tail in white.

Also another trick is a marabou jig (I like white) suspended maybe 6"-8" under a float and pop it back to you. Mix some pauses in as well. This is really great if you can see them chasing bait then cast to the school.

For getting the skunk off a trout magnet or crappie magnet will catch about anything anywhere.

[GoFish_Tony]

Thanks Travis, we will give it a shot.

Didn't mean to hijack this thread. I will start a new post hopefully showing some FISH!! :-)

[nomad60]

Originally Posted by Travis C.

They could have been laying on the bottom in the "dead zone" of the fishfinder.

"DEAD ZONE - Dead Zone is the area within the transducers cone of sound that is blind to you. The wider the beam angle the greater the possible dead zone. The sonar will mark bottom as the nearest distance it sees. If you are fishing over a slope it may see the high side of the slope, at the edge of the cone, and mark that as bottom. The fish that are hanging on the bottom in the center of the cone will be invisible to you because they are actually within the bottom signal on your depth finder. A narrower beam angle will reduce this effect."

This may not be the best example but there's good info about it on the web. You can take a jig big enough to show up on your depthfinder and drop it all the way down by the transducer. Before it hits bottom on your graph it will disappear. How much further until you hit actual bottom is how big your blind spot is.

Travis,

Thanks; you are a wealth of fishing information!

GoFish_Tony,

Good luck and let us know how you do!