5/6 Pyramid Guide Trip with Rod and Todd....Striper slay and Bass fest

[SDDave]

Had a trip Scheduled for over a month with Todd and Rod, his father, Rod flew in from Minnesota for his chance at catching his first Striped Bass, These guys are die hard Walleye and Muskie fisherman from Minnesota.
So it was pretty easy to tell Todd, Lets run up the hill, got some good info from a un-named old fishing friend ?
We started are day at Gallions, Steve personally made the sandwiches, Yummy...
Picked a bag or the Fresh stuff and headed up the hill.
Started out in the channel throwing cranks and after a few minutes I believe Rod got first blood with a nice trout.
From there it was a nice pic on Smallmouth Largemouth and trout, we got a couple more trout that spit the bait and loads of bass, we found the right speed for the baits and would get a few in each spot as we worked down the banks.




Went around the corner to give the guys a shot at fishing Plastics, spiltshot and dropshot, they didn't get any bites, first timers, just me, so enough of me fishing, lets go get some blood flowing....

We didn't have to go to far, Todd hooked up on the crankbait for a striper, Rod and I looked at the sonar and saw what we needed to see, got the double anchor setup, bolted it down and it was long before the blood was flowing, the cat special, my Champion, was covered in striper blood and striper poop, and sardine juice !

Rods first Striper, Cut the heart out and made him eat it... lol... not really..



Todd was on fire in the front, me in the middle, Rod in the back, the bent pole action went on for the next four hours.
Stories were shared from back in the day... GOOD TIMES...
I got to go try Lake of the Woods, Milaxs, I mean theres only ten thousand of them to fish right...

Talked to Bass guy I know, good stick this guy, there's a tourney there Saturday, we could have made a easy limit with the bass we got in the morning, but these guys know how to fish the game..

We caught a easy 50 striper's, kept out limit, ran out of bait and called it a day around 4:00, I gave them a short tour of Yellow Bar arm and then headed in to clean the fish...



Very good day, weather was great, lite boat traffic all day long, ended with tons of fish, striper, largemouth, smallmouth, and even a kitty fish.
Again Pyramid was good to us, the bait bite in RED HOT right now...

[Philly_D]

Nice! Im going to be out there tomorrow, Hope i have half as good of a day as you did! Never done the double anchor thing before, is it critical to your fishing success??

[SDDave]

Hey Guy,
Welcome to the FNN, putting down two get the boat setup best, you can get away with one but two really locks the boat down from sliding around, try to setup in 40 feet, fish are hitting around 20 feet, there was allot of soft bites so you really have to pay attention. Be safe have fun, good luck.

[Philly_D]

Hey Guy,
Welcome to the FNN, putting down two get the boat setup best, you can get away with one but two really locks the boat down from sliding around, try to setup in 40 feet, fish are hitting around 20 feet, there was allot of soft bites so you really have to pay attention. Be safe have fun, good luck.

Thank you!

[fishfinder]

nice grand pyramid grand slam. i might have relatives from minnesota out next year for some fishing. what kind of comment did the minnesotians make about the terriffic fighting power of a striper?

[Fishthewhaler]

Hey Dave,
I was there also, it was one stop shopping for us...Loaded up on the linesides, and went and watched the game. Good fishing there...

[fishinone]

Nice catch Dave,

We found them in the same depths at StriperFest.

[SDDave]

Nice catch Dave,

We found them in the same depths at StriperFest.

Thanks fishinone, I know, ;)
I worked the same type as you guys only towards yellow bar,
We got one on the crank bait right before we setup, I new when we got that stripe that we were close to the right zone...
Now all we need is for Castaic to turn on.
Pyramid's keep telling us the annuals are in the mail is getting old and expensive :-(

[gletemfeelsteelgary]

congrats on the sucessfull dya..

Way ta go..

What happened to you at striperfest ?

I thought U were gonna go ???

[SDDave]

I ended up doing a trip on the lagoon, wind was nasty but we caught our "Dad" fish and I got paid for the day, and in these times I can't pass it up, I've been fishing there most of the winter with crawdads but I don't post much about it, i just put pictures of the Pigs on my website, I promise next year I'll get in on the fun, I did get to live it by reading your great post and others of the fun times had by all...

congrats on the sucessfull dya..

Way ta go..

What happened to you at striperfest ?

I thought U were gonna go ???