P.A.W.
07-10-2011, 12:46 PM
Mr. jailbird has been in the deep end lately by the bouy line and mainly taking 'chovies and sardines. Soooo I've been doing the bass thing pretty much and watching for boils, which have been carp mostly. Well, today I decided to relax and do some bait n wait and picked up some 'chovies on the way in and headed straight for the inlet. No boils.... zero. Nothing on the fishfinder either. I saw a couple of guys land a small striper or two, but I wanted more than the 12" 1lb class. I trolled the entire bouy line watching the graph and found NOTHING! The deep water was deserted.
I then slow trolled the mid lake looking for baitballs..... again nothing. Got to the east end where things start to shallow out to 20' or so. Bingo! Topwater action until almost 10:30. I saw schools of those rats (juveniles) chasing my jerkbait too. Not 50 feet from my boat there was a familiar silver yellow tailfin whacking the water so I threw at it. 1st cast and fish on. 26 incher. Now that's more like it.
It's pretty much good news, bad news in that it might take some doing to fing the linesides, but the bigger ones are comming out to play and the best part is they are hitting topwaters. Woohoo!
I then slow trolled the mid lake looking for baitballs..... again nothing. Got to the east end where things start to shallow out to 20' or so. Bingo! Topwater action until almost 10:30. I saw schools of those rats (juveniles) chasing my jerkbait too. Not 50 feet from my boat there was a familiar silver yellow tailfin whacking the water so I threw at it. 1st cast and fish on. 26 incher. Now that's more like it.
It's pretty much good news, bad news in that it might take some doing to fing the linesides, but the bigger ones are comming out to play and the best part is they are hitting topwaters. Woohoo!