DMS
01-25-2014, 09:34 PM
Today Lulu and I had to run her nephew, who has been visiting to the airport for an early morning flight. We made sure to get him there plenty early so he would not miss his flight and so we could chase stripey again!
We stopped for some worms at Galleon's and in conversation, I heard that Fishinone was fishin' today... that was not a surprise.
We hit the gate a few minutes after 7 and drove right in as we saw the spread of bass boats from the tourney fanning out across the lake. Short minute to rig the boat for launch and we were off to our spot. Put the anchor down and the lines out and didn't get much right away, but after a while we started serving some customers. The fish were really picky, but we picked away at a few until I pulled out my 2# line as I saw good marks and was not really getting the expected love. Right away, I hooked up but had a casualty on the spiderweb line. Back out again and hooked up and this one felt like a tuna or something. About 10+ minutes later, I saw a nice striper on the surface and finally coaxed a nice 5#+ striper to Lulu's waiting net! A 5# striper on 2# line and a little bitty trout pole! As we picked along we found another nice one on the trout pole. This time Lulu was on it, but the fish just kept swimming away. She was afraid to farm him and he was headed to spool her, so I helped get her back around and passed the pole back and I netted a nice 4.5# striper! As we picked away to our limits, we were digging the nicer fish and I got the big one of the day on the 4# line and Lulu netted a 6#+ fish for me.
We where enjoying the day. We had some wind, but overall, really manageable and we were getting on as we filled the well. As we were getting to our last couple fish, we noticed the bass boat off to our side had moved a bit closer, but not too close... they were picking the schoolies. I notice they had 5 people in the boat... I mentioned that they couldn't really move around much. All the sudden, one of the guys had a nice fish. Lulu was watching the fight as I tended another worm bite... all the sudden, I saw a huge splash and I thought that it must have been a 30# striper, but it was a 150# angler who simply fell overboard while trying to net a 4 or 5# striper. The other 4 guys in that boat, Lulu and me all busted out laughing. It was about the funniest thing I have seen in a long time and the best part was the guys over there kept busting out laughing every time they calmed down. I pulled the glasses and saw the guy wringing out his clothing. Lulu told me he changed his clothes. Note to self, if you are going to fall in the drink, bring a change of clothes.
Anyway, we got 19 and on the last bite, we got teased by the short biters until I stuck a final 4# fish. We took some photos, stowed the nets and rods, cleaned up a bit from the blood and guts and slime on the deck and pulled anchors and headed for the barn. We didn't set any records for speed, but had a great day as we pulled out of the gate at around 2:30 with 38# or so of fresh stripers.
Final for the day was one fish over 6, one over 5 and 3 over 4 for five nice ones. 15 schoolies to fill out or limit.
I heard that Ron and Jim did good today too.
DMS
Photos below:
Here is our limit from 1/11/14 (3 hours of fishing)
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s13/mythreesticks/IMG_2542_zps7862162e.jpg
Here are the two largest a 6+ and a 5+ the 5 was on 2# line
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s13/mythreesticks/IMG_2553_zpseac82fcd.jpg
Here's Lulu with our haul
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s13/mythreesticks/IMG_2562_zps548d3408.jpg
one more good shot
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s13/mythreesticks/IMG_2556_zps7384e811.jpg
And last Saturday was no fishing, but we where there to count the votes for the DrumOff
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s13/mythreesticks/IMG_2549_zpsae849413.jpg
We stopped for some worms at Galleon's and in conversation, I heard that Fishinone was fishin' today... that was not a surprise.
We hit the gate a few minutes after 7 and drove right in as we saw the spread of bass boats from the tourney fanning out across the lake. Short minute to rig the boat for launch and we were off to our spot. Put the anchor down and the lines out and didn't get much right away, but after a while we started serving some customers. The fish were really picky, but we picked away at a few until I pulled out my 2# line as I saw good marks and was not really getting the expected love. Right away, I hooked up but had a casualty on the spiderweb line. Back out again and hooked up and this one felt like a tuna or something. About 10+ minutes later, I saw a nice striper on the surface and finally coaxed a nice 5#+ striper to Lulu's waiting net! A 5# striper on 2# line and a little bitty trout pole! As we picked along we found another nice one on the trout pole. This time Lulu was on it, but the fish just kept swimming away. She was afraid to farm him and he was headed to spool her, so I helped get her back around and passed the pole back and I netted a nice 4.5# striper! As we picked away to our limits, we were digging the nicer fish and I got the big one of the day on the 4# line and Lulu netted a 6#+ fish for me.
We where enjoying the day. We had some wind, but overall, really manageable and we were getting on as we filled the well. As we were getting to our last couple fish, we noticed the bass boat off to our side had moved a bit closer, but not too close... they were picking the schoolies. I notice they had 5 people in the boat... I mentioned that they couldn't really move around much. All the sudden, one of the guys had a nice fish. Lulu was watching the fight as I tended another worm bite... all the sudden, I saw a huge splash and I thought that it must have been a 30# striper, but it was a 150# angler who simply fell overboard while trying to net a 4 or 5# striper. The other 4 guys in that boat, Lulu and me all busted out laughing. It was about the funniest thing I have seen in a long time and the best part was the guys over there kept busting out laughing every time they calmed down. I pulled the glasses and saw the guy wringing out his clothing. Lulu told me he changed his clothes. Note to self, if you are going to fall in the drink, bring a change of clothes.
Anyway, we got 19 and on the last bite, we got teased by the short biters until I stuck a final 4# fish. We took some photos, stowed the nets and rods, cleaned up a bit from the blood and guts and slime on the deck and pulled anchors and headed for the barn. We didn't set any records for speed, but had a great day as we pulled out of the gate at around 2:30 with 38# or so of fresh stripers.
Final for the day was one fish over 6, one over 5 and 3 over 4 for five nice ones. 15 schoolies to fill out or limit.
I heard that Ron and Jim did good today too.
DMS
Photos below:
Here is our limit from 1/11/14 (3 hours of fishing)
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s13/mythreesticks/IMG_2542_zps7862162e.jpg
Here are the two largest a 6+ and a 5+ the 5 was on 2# line
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s13/mythreesticks/IMG_2553_zpseac82fcd.jpg
Here's Lulu with our haul
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s13/mythreesticks/IMG_2562_zps548d3408.jpg
one more good shot
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s13/mythreesticks/IMG_2556_zps7384e811.jpg
And last Saturday was no fishing, but we where there to count the votes for the DrumOff
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s13/mythreesticks/IMG_2549_zpsae849413.jpg