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!
Nick, Rick and I hit the lake again this past Thursday and had a decent day. The bite is no doubt slowing as we approach the full moon that’s about to hit Saturday the 13th. I fully expected our day to have a limited window of opportunity and I was right. My Striper instincts said we’d have the best shot sometime between 3-7 and I was right. We found fish immediately and as it turned out, we were lucky we did! The first fish came on a shallow spoon trolled over the trees out in the front of Big Creek.
Hit the lake with Rick and Nick. I fully expected the bite to be late in the day but we started around noon just in case. Overall fishing was very slow until 5:00. We looked everywhere but it was like the lake was empty! After 5 hours we had nothing to show for our effort but my three bites and three fish to the boat including this 15 lb’er:
Rick and I hit the lake for a late PM trip and it paid some big dividends. As expected, the fish were “on” from 5:00 to 7:00 and we boated 16 during a 1.5 hour run. The big fish of the day was a 16 lb’er that hit my small swim bait. Silver spoons, hopkins and small Daredevils were also producing. Five fish were trolled and eleven jigged so overall we did well.
Went out with Jonathan today to get him back to the mindset of fishing. He’s been going to school for almost a month now and with our Funfest Striper tournament coming up this Saturday, I wanted to make sure he still knew how to reel in a fish! Fortunately he got some practice even though the lake was as packed as I’ve seen it all year. The boats were out big time along with 3-4 foot waves throwing us around non stop. Still we fared well all things considered boating 8 and missing a few that weren’t taking the lure hard but instead just pecking at it. When this happens you’ll get a lot of “nibbles” that don’t stick when trolling and we had at least 4-5 which is a lot in one day.