Stumpknocker
11-21-2013, 05:02 AM
Wednesday was one of those beautiful overcast SoCal autumn days with little or no wind that seem to make stripers hungry and fishing easy. My buddy Jim and I launched a little before 7 and, other than a couple of slowdowns to meter some spots, went straight to the 90 foot flat outside of necktie canyon. There was a boat on the necktie buoyline and a guy with a rental boat fishing on the point from shore, but no boats yet in the usual necktie fleet area. We metered a decent amount of fish and dropped anchor straight down with no scope since there wasn't any wind. Jim had brought a bunch of good quality frozen sardines and anchovies, and my first cast with a sardine chunk was bit within 10 seconds by a one pound dink striper...a good sign! We stayed until around 2 p.m., but we could have left with limits by 10:30...it was nonstop action on the 1-2 pounders, and we probably hooked 50-60 fish, releasing the mouth-hooked fish and keeping limits of gut-hooked ones. Most of the fish came on flylined chunks of sardines or anchovies (didn't seem to matter much), but Jim caught but the best fish, about a 3 pounder, just off the bottom using a buckshot.
http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g402/yobobscott/jimostripe.jpg (http://s1100.photobucket.com/user/yobobscott/media/jimostripe.jpg.html)
The wind came up a little from the southwest...eventually had to let out a little scope...but the weather was great all day. Fish showed on the meter throughout the water column for the entire time we were there. There were about 5 or so other boats that eventually showed up and fished around us, and everybody seemed to catch some. Here's the carnage shot at the cleaning table.
http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g402/yobobscott/carnage.jpg (http://s1100.photobucket.com/user/yobobscott/media/carnage.jpg.html)
I'm continually amazed at the huge biomass of stripers in the lake that you can see when you drive around looking at the meter, and also amazed that there are still those days where, at least for me, they don't bite like they did today, considering how many of them there are...gotta love it when they do!
http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g402/yobobscott/jimostripe.jpg (http://s1100.photobucket.com/user/yobobscott/media/jimostripe.jpg.html)
The wind came up a little from the southwest...eventually had to let out a little scope...but the weather was great all day. Fish showed on the meter throughout the water column for the entire time we were there. There were about 5 or so other boats that eventually showed up and fished around us, and everybody seemed to catch some. Here's the carnage shot at the cleaning table.
http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g402/yobobscott/carnage.jpg (http://s1100.photobucket.com/user/yobobscott/media/carnage.jpg.html)
I'm continually amazed at the huge biomass of stripers in the lake that you can see when you drive around looking at the meter, and also amazed that there are still those days where, at least for me, they don't bite like they did today, considering how many of them there are...gotta love it when they do!