I've been out of town for a few weeks, so when I hit the lake on Friday I expected things to have changed some. Just after launching I metered a bunch of stripers just outside the launch ramp, but I wanted to check the point next to Necktie canyon first to see if that was still happening. Got there, no other boats, metered around and saw nothing. Didn't bother trying there...checked a few other spots, then went back to the marina area and anchored where I saw the most marks...after an hour of no bites but lots of meter marks, I finally got bit on a sardine chunk...the fish found my anchor rope, and I managed to slide it up the rope until I could see it...about a 3 pounder...and then it managed to unhook itself and swam away...fished another hour for nothing, and it was starting to look like one of those days that is worse than a skunk, when you catch nothing and lose your one hooked fish. I pulled anchor and headed up the fishing arm, and eventually found a spot where there were some good marks, and one other boat. He had a small striper to show for his efforts. After an hour of fishing with no results, I finally got bit and landed a 3 pounder...for the next hour and a half, it was a slow pick on schoolies and two nicer 4-5 pounders...not wide open but way better action that it was looking like earlier.
Here's the 3 best fish
I gave the guy I was fishing near the 3 pounder, let the lip-hooked schoolies go, and gave a couple gut-hooked schoolies to the guy who tagged my boat on the way out. The weather was spectacular...no wind and 80 degrees. We could use some rain, but it sure beats the polar vortex back east.