21 hours at New Hogan

[dk4885]

Made the trip up to New Hogan yesterday evening on the water at 6pm. Went straight to troll. Worked an area that has been producing in my last couple trips for 3 dinks and 3 dink bass. We worked area hard intell the sun went down.
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After sun went down we set up anchor of a point and drop the light in the water.

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it took 45 min before the bait started to show up. After 2 hours we had a massive bait ball around our boat.

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after nothing on the cutbait and watching the stripers shadows blow threw the shad I grabbed my net and made a quick deep and netted me some live bait.

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Almost as soon as I dropped the shad down it was fish on a combination of striper and catfish. By 1 am landed 6 catfish and 10 stripers all released plus another dozen mist bites. Around 1 am went to sleep. Got up at 5am cleaned up boat and went back to the troll.

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continue to work area as day before for no fish so moved on then I found them all schooled up tight over the next 6 hours we worked this area hitting the wolf packs. All quality 3-5# fish. Over 40 fish for this trip. No boils but saw fish working and shad jumping all over the lake.

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[MustHuntAndFish]

Another DK slay. Surprise... Surprise!

Same story all over Cali.

[Double A]

Nice trip Donald & nice report.
Those light picks are bad a••
Good to see the taco back on the water, doing what it does. KILL

[trail blazer]

WTG D/K,,,,,,,,,,,

Got to get up to that lake myself,

Looks like a blast!

These so cal lakes with the LAME hrs that close at dark SUCK!,,,,O well,,

it is what it is I guess

T/B

[cutbait]

Nice trip.

What's the limit at hogan? TB says 5?

[DEVOREFLYER]

Nice trip.

What's the limit at hogan? TB says 5?

Ask RugDoctor he's the limit expert. Just sayin'............

[dk4885]

TB & Rug Doctor looking at same regs. Lol. It's 10 no size limit just like so cal

[trail blazer]

TB & Rug Doctor looking at same regs. Lol. It's 10 no size limit just like so cal


Well,,,,,,,,,,in this case im GLADDDDDD im wrong,,,,,,,im going!

T/B

[fishinone]

Nice Slay DK!

I'm jealous! I love fishing in the morning at gray light.


These so cal lakes with the LAME hrs that close at dark SUCK!,,,,O well,,

it is what it is I guess

T/B

No doubt! Even when they do have night fishing they make you pull it up in the middle of the night. I just can't see how that's safer than staying until morning.

[MikesOcean]

Right on DK!!!!

Looked like you had a blast!!!

That is awesome seeing all that shad around
The boat. And your schoolies are so much
Better then our dinks.

Gotta agree with TB on this sunrise to sunset BS!!!

[catchingsomefish]

Nice report Donald, sounds like a lot of fun, and some nice looking fish also!.................Dave

[dk4885]

Thanks guys. Now only if I can get out on millerton at night. Oh wait I can. Lol

[MustHuntAndFish]

Thanks guys. Now only if I can get out on millerton at night. Oh wait I can. Lol

Quit rubbing it in Donald.... Haha!

[TroutOnly]

I like the shad pics..........................the candy.....................

[MustHuntAndFish]

I like the shad pics..........................the candy.....................

The pic of the Candy in Hand is baddass!

I need to remember those colors next time I'm buying swimbaits.

[TUNAVIC]

Wow,quite the haul very cool,nice pic of drawing the baitfish in,thanks.

Cya Tuna Vic

[troutdog]

Love that lake, way to slay!


TD

[trail blazer]

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you know what Donald,,,,,,i just realized something,,,,,,,BOTH of our digi scales are seriously wrong and have been forever bro,,,,,,

Both those fish in your hands are between 8 and 16lbs for sure,,,,,,,and that shad,,,a lb easily,,,,,,,,

One thing is for sure,,,,,,,That ice chest of yours has at least 100lbs of stripers in it,,,,,,,,,,,,BIGTIME WTG Donald!

[dk4885]

I'll make sure to get a new scale ASAP.

So what your saying is your fish from 3 weeks ago was 25-30#. Nice
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[trail blazer]

what im saying is that these fish that we cought were all 40+

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