May Fishing

[Canalman]

The best advice I can think of here is not to move just to move. Sometimes taking the grand tour of the bay over the course of a month only serves to confuse things... you can't establish a pattern and there's no rhyme or reason to your moves. I tend to stick to three high-yield options until I find something--by high yield I mean places that have produced well over a period of years and/or places that the fish have to pass by eventually. Skunks don't bother me, I have found that it's better to move after you've found some fish, because then you have something to latch onto and to help you make educated moves.

We're at the point now where the Bay is getting too warm and the fish are going to be leaving... and they have to exit somewhere--know what I mean??

Don't give up, the best is yet to come

[piemma]

Originally Posted by Canalman

We're at the point now where the Bay is getting too warm and the fish are going to be leaving... and they have to exit somewhere--know what I mean??

You are correct Dave. I saw the first 70 degree water of the year this morning in upper Narr Bay. It won't be long till the Big girls exit.

[zimmy]

Where I have been fishing, artificials have been almost useless. The magic swimmer has taken a couple of fish, but with all the herring around it has been nearly impossible to get them to hit. Fish hammering herring, but following and bumping plastics at best. However, they have gone mad over rigged eels. Still not my best spring by far, but without the eels it would be by far my worst in a decade.