Late winter trout techniques

[GoodToGo]

Heading up the crow area this weekend, probably to Rowan. Fishing has been terrible for our group for the last month, after what was a very good first couple of months. We have pretty much been fishing the same areas with the same techniques all winter. I'm thinking we need to adjust, but have no idea what to change. Do the trout head shallow this time of year? Deep? Or are they still in the same place, just refusing to bite? I'm stumped.

[tearin' lips]

GoodtoGo,

Don't feel bad myself and several friends have fished crow often this year...There was a slump when we were not doing much...First time we caught 14 in 2.5 hours...then it progressively got slower. Now it is starting to pick up again. We're fishing 40-65 feet of good breaks with white tubes, white tubes with red tips, and airplanes with frozen shiners. White seems to be the trend, we try to mimic dying ciscos as close as possible. Hope this helps...best of luck to ya.

[cedarnarrowsguy]

The last trip up, we had good success dropping the tube jig 40-50 ft to the bottom and just start realing up. The faster sometimes even worked better. We at least marked fish all day and got the aggressive ones...

[GoodToGo]

These are the same techniques and structure we fish, so it must just be a slow down. I was thinking maybe they started moving shallow, or made some big behavior change. We'll be up there this weekend, so we'll see. Thanks for the comments, and good luck.