When We Don't Catch Anything

[Johnny wilkins]

I see struggle out there fishing for our beloved gills. I read the setups and I know the answers to fix most of the problems- we fish Derrick Rose-Style.
If you haven't seen him play, you owe it to yourself to watch a game when he is in. Bulls announcer Stacy King, when "D" Rose fires down the lane into the trees ( Rose is only 6' 3") and with speed he lifts a shot over the defenses heads before they can react. The announcer yells "too big, too strong, too fast!"
Our cold weather setups need to be the opposite when the water temps are on this side of 65 - 90% of the setups are garbage that I read for coldwater, this goes for most everything hanging on the baitshop wall. None of our lures and even live bait tackle provides chilled fish opportunity or a trigger to want to eat them. I have never seen a daphnia lure... but when the mercury dips, anglers need to take a serious look at thier tackle. I think a great test if our setups IS cold water and I would take it one step further to say if your rig catches in cold- it will catch even better in warm water. That said , my cold water rigs don't vary that much from the warm weather tackle. Do you give up when the water gets cold or do you give up because you are not catching fish? Maybe you ate fishing too big, to strong and too fast.

[Johnny wilkins]

Your problem is man. Man around Madison have stripped your larger fish from the system. If you upgrade your tactics though, you will catch more fish and will run into the occasional 10" - the only problem is, you want to take care of those larger fish - as you said, they are rare near you.

When the going gets tough - forget the jig, go with micro shot (Super Doux)  and  this might be the trick. We are including open water when the water chills, after a cold rain, cold front or inactive periods. When you aren't catching change and try this stuff.

The parked shanty - I think they are playing cards...