Bassfan
02-24-2013, 10:51 AM
Beautiful calm morning to start the day. Anchored up in about 70 ft. and started bait fishing around 8 and they were in the mood to eat. Within a few minutes had the first bite and I’m not so sure the sardine had fully defrosted. After that it was steady until about 11.
At one point they seemed so anxious to bite I tried a “heat check” to test them. Put on an old twice-frozen anchovie piece that didn’t look that good last week and Bang! Fish on! Did that a couple times and then tried the tail piece of the sardine with no guts and Bang! Fish on! When they were hungry they took it all but as things slowed a bit it was back to juicy pieces of sardine.
Part of the time fished with some weight a few feet off the bottom on one rod and flylined a chunk of sardine with the other. Caught most near the bottom but all except one were keepers with flyline. At one point had a bite on sardine and as I brought in what I thought was a decent striper it was a nice silvery trout that was a long way from the stockers. It was a healthy beautiful fish that fought hard.
Around 11 the wind gusts started and blew me off my spot and after a couple attempts to re-anchor I gave up and headed in early. The wind was blowing hard in the main body of the lake and I’m not a big fan of fishing on a windy day. Give me calm conditions and hungry fish and I’m happy.
Thought I kept 8 but when I got home I found I had 10 stripers plus the trout so it’s a good thing the wind chased me in! Apparently I was catching them better than I was counting them. Threw back about 6 or 7 but as noted my counting is shaky when the fish are biting.
Really fun day. Got to compare notes with Dan and Lulu and made it home with some time to filet a striper for Sunday’s dinner.
Still need to work on how to post pictures.
At one point they seemed so anxious to bite I tried a “heat check” to test them. Put on an old twice-frozen anchovie piece that didn’t look that good last week and Bang! Fish on! Did that a couple times and then tried the tail piece of the sardine with no guts and Bang! Fish on! When they were hungry they took it all but as things slowed a bit it was back to juicy pieces of sardine.
Part of the time fished with some weight a few feet off the bottom on one rod and flylined a chunk of sardine with the other. Caught most near the bottom but all except one were keepers with flyline. At one point had a bite on sardine and as I brought in what I thought was a decent striper it was a nice silvery trout that was a long way from the stockers. It was a healthy beautiful fish that fought hard.
Around 11 the wind gusts started and blew me off my spot and after a couple attempts to re-anchor I gave up and headed in early. The wind was blowing hard in the main body of the lake and I’m not a big fan of fishing on a windy day. Give me calm conditions and hungry fish and I’m happy.
Thought I kept 8 but when I got home I found I had 10 stripers plus the trout so it’s a good thing the wind chased me in! Apparently I was catching them better than I was counting them. Threw back about 6 or 7 but as noted my counting is shaky when the fish are biting.
Really fun day. Got to compare notes with Dan and Lulu and made it home with some time to filet a striper for Sunday’s dinner.
Still need to work on how to post pictures.