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Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: Fillibert on May 02, 2012, 10:17:38 PM

Title: First fish bites early and then quiet. Why?
Post by: Fillibert on May 02, 2012, 10:17:38 PM

I've been going out to deer lake lately for some close to home fishing. It seems like every time I start out with a spinner and it catches me a fish within 15 minutes and then I get nothing. I try different lures and tactics (float, bottom) but nada. This happened at different times of day too so that's not a factor and others seemed to take longer to hook a fish but were more consistent at getting bites throughout the day. Any ideas, why this might be happening

Title: Re: First fish bites early and then quiet. Why?
Post by: BCfisherman97 on May 02, 2012, 11:02:48 PM

Which deer?

Title: Re: First fish bites early and then quiet. Why?
Post by: Fillibert on May 03, 2012, 10:26:46 PM

Burnaby. Now I'm curious does it matter?

Title: Re: First fish bites early and then quiet. Why?
Post by: chronicfisher on May 03, 2012, 10:31:18 PM

Quote from: Fillibert on May 03, 2012, 10:26:46 PM

Burnaby. Now I'm curious does it matter?

what area are you fishing from?are you after carp?or trout?

Title: Re: First fish bites early and then quiet. Why?
Post by: Noahs Arc on May 03, 2012, 10:33:13 PM

Does what matter?

Title: Re: First fish bites early and then quiet. Why?
Post by: Fish Assassin on May 04, 2012, 12:09:42 AM

Quote from: Noahs Arc on May 03, 2012, 10:33:13 PM

Does what matter?

Which Deer lake

Title: Re: First fish bites early and then quiet. Why?
Post by: BCfisherman97 on May 04, 2012, 10:26:22 AM

Most likely because there are hatches going on in the morning, this means the fish are active and searching for food. These fish are stupid stocked fish, like, I have seen them caught on cigarette buds. So in the morning they are feeding on basically anything that looks tasy.

Title: Re: First fish bites early and then quiet. Why?
Post by: Old Blue on May 04, 2012, 02:15:56 PM

Try mixing it up a bit.  Change up often if you're not getting hits and especially change up the speed of retreival.  As BCfisherman97 said they're not the brightest fish.  I don't know how many fish I've hooked up with while stripping in my fly super fast, especially using a big leech pattern.  Some people swear by the red power eggs as they look similar to the food pellets stocked catchables are raised on.