During “normal” winters, February is a time to locate stripers, walleyes and crappies in the backs of deep, narrow canyons with “stair step” depths that abruptly rise from 100-plus feet to 80, 70, 50, and finally to around 30 feet of crystal clear water. Finding such canyons is always dependent on a good fish finder and a better understanding of the current elevation of the reservoir.
Then, in a canyon that meets the requirements, shad will pile up on one of several stair steps and the game fish will surround the schools, trapping them in the narrow channels or “managing” them by cutting off their escape routes. Then, a 1/2–ounce white spoon dropped vertically to the suspended game fish results in a live well full of great-tasting fish.
favorite canyons just shy of Good Hope Bay only to discover that no striper schools were anywhere around the stair steps heading toward the back of the canyons. In fact, we didn’t catch a single striper in the areas that “normally” hold both shad and stripers in abundance.
Then, in a canyon that meets the requirements, shad will pile up on one of several stair steps and the game fish will surround the schools, trapping them in the narrow channels or “managing” them by cutting off their escape routes. Then, a 1/2–ounce white spoon dropped vertically to the suspended game fish results in a live well full of great-tasting fish.
favorite canyons just shy of Good Hope Bay only to discover that no striper schools were anywhere around the stair steps heading toward the back of the canyons. In fact, we didn’t catch a single striper in the areas that “normally” hold both shad and stripers in abundance.
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