TBF N.W. divisional, Yellow tail res. Montana

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Permalink Reply by Jake Anderson on June 4, 2010 at 7:17pm

Excellent job guys!

Permalink Reply by D.J. LaRoche on June 4, 2010 at 7:18pm

Nice job!!! Way to represent Washington!

Permalink Reply by David Parnicky on June 4, 2010 at 10:21pm

Way to go Chris and Dez!! That is way too cool!!

Permalink Reply by Tag Watson on June 5, 2010 at 8:44am

Congrats on a job well done, fellas!

Permalink Reply by Steve Hastings on June 5, 2010 at 10:08am

Nice Job Chris and Dez and to the whole team for representing the state well!!!

Permalink Reply by Austin Heyer on June 5, 2010 at 7:44pm

way to go dez

Permalink Reply by Jay Johnson on June 7, 2010 at 7:32am

Awesome job! Congrats and good luck!!!

Permalink Reply by BigBass Dez on June 7, 2010 at 9:33am

Thanks for the kind words guyz !! Congrats too Chris Ferry for a fine job on a tuff lake .. And my hats off to our entire team for our 2nd place standing against 4 other states .. If i dont ever have to see that body of water in my lifetime , im sooo okay with that , 2.11 oz being bigfish over 3days thats tuff ..

Thanks again guys ..

DEZ

Permalink Reply by BigBass Dez on June 7, 2010 at 10:25am

Thanks you brain .. your pannic minnow acounted for 99% of my fish .. Every bed fish that i came across it only took one cast to get bit , the fish would see that bait swim down too them and once it hit the bed they couldnt stand it !!!! ..
When i fished the bluff walls and had to swim my bait back to the boat those minnows got it done !!!

Panic Minnow said:

Good job guys!

Permalink Reply by Chris Ferry on June 7, 2010 at 10:28am

Thanks everyone! Yellowtail Reservoir does not have a great population of fish, and lots of small fish. This body of water looked huge until you get there and then you realize that only 30% of the lake is fishable the rest is shear canyon walls with 300+ feet of water 5 feet from the wall. The patterns there changed daily. The team found that in a matter of a few pre-fish days that the fish had pushed up onto beds in 54 degree water on the north end where as the south end temps were 65-70 degrees and lots of post spawn and the water was dirty. We decided as a team to concentrate on bedding fish on day one because their were not that many areas holding the better fish and they would not last past day 1. Dropshot for beds and a flick shake for prespawn areas worked best. Day 2 there were some fish still on beds and we cleaned up the remaining and started targeting prespawners or cruising females. Day 3 targeted cruising fish started with a dropshot and found that they just were not eating it so slowed down and went to a weightless wacky rigged 4" senko and proceeded to catch 4 limits behind the tournament leader. Another pattern that was producing for some guys was setting up un bluff walls 15' away casting a dropshot clicking over your bail and letting it pengelum swing back to the boat once stopped under the boat the fish would bite. Congrats to all who fished it was tough. On another note the Brown trout and Rainbow trout fishing was unbeleivable some guys caught fish in the 30" range.

Permalink Reply by Misanthrope on June 7, 2010 at 4:43pm

That is an All-Star team we put together.

Permalink Reply by Joel Alinen on June 8, 2010 at 7:05am

Great job Chris! Thanks for the writeup...I thought what you said about the dropshot on steep walls was really interesting!

"Another pattern that was producing for some guys was setting up un bluff walls 15' away casting a dropshot clicking over your bail and letting it pengelum swing back to the boat once stopped under the boat the fish would bite."

Thanks I'll have to give that a try sometime=)