The Time Wasting Yo-Yo

If you have fished Devils Lake for Perch long enough, you don’t even need an explanation as to what I am about to talk about.

We here on the Northern Tier that hit the big lake for Perch have all had it happen to us.  Drill a line of holes, start working the holes, hit a hole with a nice mark in it, drop the lure and the mark rockets up to it, and we are thinking

“Jackpot Baby”.

Then the fish slowly drifts back to the bottom, only to rocket back up right to our lure and sit there, and then slowly drift back to the bottom, then rocket back up to our lure, only to slowly drift back to the bottom, then rocket right back to our lure then slowly drift back to the bottom…………..

I could go on for hours, because if you let them, THEY will go on doing this for hours.

My opinion on Yo-Yo’s is to leave em.  I know I have wasted hours upon hours on the lake trying to get yo-yo’s to finally take the lure and it hardly ever works.  When you’ve got a yo-yo going on, it is an incredibly neutral or negative fish that just isn’t in feed mode.

I used to sit there and work and try to get them to bite.  Now I just leave em like there isn’t even a fish in the hole.  I may come back later to see if they became active but I refuse, any longer, to sit and bang my head against a wall trying to get a yo-yo to bite.

The only thing possibly worse than a yo-yo, is a missed yo-yo.

Scenario:  You made the mistake of staying on a yo-yo too long and now you are time committed to that stupid fish.  Then it happens, the darn thing actually comes up and bites………

And you miss it!!

It has lulled you into thinking its never going to bite and then on its 6,000th ascent it nabs your bait and you never even took a swing because, well, it was a yo-yo, it wasn’t actually going to bite.

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

That is the part of the Yo-Yo that drives me nuts and why I refuse to sit on a Yo-Yo anymore.

I LOVE DEVIL’S LAKE CRAPPIES

If you didn’t see our Monday post, I think Christmas Eve’s take is worth another look…..

Good Luck Out there…

Bring a Shovel…

Hold On To Your Rod…

and

Catch More Fish