Bottom Bouncer

Fished Barcelona tonight. Made the mistake of assuming with the warm water the fish would be deeper. Started at 90 fow and trolled in. Got a couple in deeper water but once we got to about 70 we were in them and it was a quick two man limit. All worm harnesses on lead, down riggers and bottom bouncer. All caught fish but they favored the downriggers tonight.

I use three ways with about a 12 inch lead to the weight and a 3 foot leader on the harness. I don't use real heavy weight (3 oz max). You can drift effectively if their is enough wind. I like a min speed of 1.2 and use the electric motor on light wind days. I will adjust speed from 1.2 - 1.8 but usually end up at 1.4. I always have at least one bottom bouncer out, but the later we get in the summer typically the lead core and downriggers perform much better.

Barcelona is still on 🔥, as I suspect the entire eastern end of the lake is. We caught a 3 man limit in just over 2 hours this am. Caught fish everywhere from 60 - 100 fow. Wormharnesses fished off downriggers, leadcore, and bottom bouncers all caught fish.

I think the fishing is so easy now we aren't seeing the need to report. I've only been out a couple times this year and it's been easy limits and everyone I talked to at the launch said the same. I could be wrong, but that's my assumption.

Barcelona is on fire. A lot of fish are up high. Caught a lot on 3 color and downriggers between 20-30 feet in 55 - 65 fow.

Fished the same area yesterday from 5-7pm. Got a two man limit. Most of ours came on 7 color lead core with a few coming off the downrigger and 2 off a bottom bouncer. Thank you to the guys at the launch who gave me the Intel. I hadn't planned on starting that deep but you put us right on them.

Just curious, was it just hole clogged?

This used to happen to me quite frequently when fishing shallow water for bass and happened to me earlier this year fishing out of Barcelona. Try taking a piece of lawn trimmer string or even some wire and use that to clean out the exit hole. That should get it flowing again

Fished Barcelona this morning and caught a two man limit in just over 2 hrs. All on wormharnesses with about half coming on leadcore and the other half bottom bouncers. Caught fish between 67 - 92 fow. Color didn't seem to matter

About 30 ft for me.

Fished Barcelona yesterday morning and got a two man limit slow trolling bottom bouncers from 58 - 72 fow. Color didn't seem to matter.

The bite was real good today. Got 13 keepers, 6 shorts and missed about 12 between 60 -75 fow slightly west of the harbor. All on wormharnesses, color didn't seem to matter nor did the method as we caught bottom bouncing, off the downriggers and 5, and 9 color leadcore. I did lose a rod today, so if anyone snags an ugly stik with a Cabela's branded reel and a black and gold harness and is willing to return it I'd very much appreciate it.

A lot of boats out this am, but also a ton of fish on the screen from 75-85 fow. The bite wasn't great, but it was pretty good and I got my 6. Got bites on 9 color leadcore, off the downrigger and one bottom bouncing. Watermelon and black wormharnesses.

I use Black's releases and set them the same way. Never have a problem with smaller fish tripping them.

Everybody has their preference. I usually keep two bottom bouncers out most of the time as part of the spread. We just keep them in rod holders and ck them periodically to make sure they are on the bottom. On days they are hitting the bottom bouncers more I'll add more and remove the downrigger or lead core lines. It's the easiest and cheapest way to fish and sometimes most effective.