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Fillibert

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First fish bites early and then quiet. Why?
« 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
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BCfisherman97

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Re: First fish bites early and then quiet. Why?
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2012, 11:02:48 PM »
Which deer?
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Fillibert

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Re: First fish bites early and then quiet. Why?
« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2012, 10:26:46 PM »
Burnaby. Now I'm curious does it matter?
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chronicfisher

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Re: First fish bites early and then quiet. Why?
« Reply #3 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?
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Noahs Arc

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Re: First fish bites early and then quiet. Why?
« Reply #4 on: May 03, 2012, 10:33:13 PM »
Does what matter?
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Fish Assassin

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Re: First fish bites early and then quiet. Why?
« Reply #5 on: May 04, 2012, 12:09:42 AM »
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BCfisherman97

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Re: First fish bites early and then quiet. Why?
« Reply #6 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.
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Re: First fish bites early and then quiet. Why?
« Reply #7 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.
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