Tuesday August 16th Trip

Hit the lake today with Rick and Nick and once again the three Musketeers had a strong day. We finished up with 15 boated; several of these fish were 15 lb’s or larger including two 18 lb’ers and 1 that may have been over 20 lbs. We’ll never the know the exact weight of that fish (nor will we have a picture) since Nick and Rick decided to let it go “prematurely”. In other words, they dropped it back into the lake before we could get anything official on the camera or the scales!

Overall the day was much like it’s been; the fish were scattered throughout the water column and though we weren’t able to get over any big schools, we were able to manage bites when dropping lures to the ones we did see. Trolling accounted for 50% of the fish we boated and my strategy of “trolling first” and then jigging once we hooked a fish paid off with several hook ups following the retrieve of the trolled fish.

In the end the boys and I had a great day on the lake with moderate heat and lots of action. Here’s the Captain holding an nice and healthy 18 lb Lake Lanier Striper.