Pacemaker Fishing Forum

It's been a good start to March. I had a solid trip on the 5th, catching 16 specks. Most on homemade twitchbaits with a few jigging a fluke. The highlight of that trip was catching a trout that I tagged last November. The fish was about 9 miles from where I had tagged it. I thought that was super cool. I've tagged close to 1000 trout the last couple years but that's the first time I've ever recaught one of my own.



Last Sunday I caught a slam that I'll probably never top. Early in the day I caught a 25.5" red. It was in rough shape so I just tagged it and released it without a pic. A couple hours later I added a 27.75" speck, and two casts after that I hooked a 46" striper. Out of the three, the red was actually the most surprising because the areas I fish in the winter rarely hold reds over 20". Here's the other two:





I had another respectable slam the same day of 18 red/25.5 trout/27 striper, to go along with 16 more trout from 17-23". I caught a couple on a tube and one on a swimbait, and all the rest and the biggest on my twitchbaits. It was a day to remember for sure.






Hoping the bite lasts a couple more weeks because when they start moving out in April it can get really tough.