Lunker1979
08-27-2010, 02:41 PM
Here's the latest, go in line around 530, about 20 cars back or so. Loaded up and were on the water by 640. My buddy that was with me likes fishing for LMB rather than Striper, so we headed straight to Rawson's and starting throwing some baits. 3rd cast was hook-up, 2 pounder. Buddy catches 2 in a row, back and forth for a bit. Nothing exciting.....I talk him into heading over to the West damn. We tied up to the buoys with about 4 other boats and starting chucking. About the 5th cast I hook a nice LMB on the KPN, SKINNY SHAD BABY!!!!! Next few casts my KPN gets nailed........SOMETHING BIG!!!!!! Drag peeling off my heavy Crucial / Curado combo with 15 pound braid...........then, you guessed it, snap!!! WTF!!!!! Only conclusion I could come up with is I tied to laziest knot ever on my poll. So not only did I lose a potential DD striper, I lost my 15 dollar KPN!!!! GOD DAMMMMITTTTTT!!!!!! I immediately starting puking over the side of the boat!! Needless to say, I threw on my KPN Skinny Perch for nada else. I got 1 more good hit with on the perch but couldn't hook it. While I was still throwing up over the side of the boat, I threw out my scrounger and landed my first 2 pound Smallie.....nice!!! Made a few other trips to various places and landed LMB's here and there, nothing big and nothing exciting. I still feel sick from my mishap and am ready to go back and do nothing but search for big Stripes!!!!!!!! I'm pissed........oh I need some more KPNS too!!!! lol. My buddy took a crappy picture of the smallie but I'll post in a bit. Thanks for reading and the bite is tremendously slower then 2 weeks ago when I was there. Boated about 15 LMB's and 1 smallie...........Scroungers and KPN's were the ticket!! Thanks for reading! Until next time America...........................DUCT HERE I COME!