06-15-2007, 05:12 AM
Thanks, yes, I've fished stripers feeding on the surface, the last two evenings that I've been out on Lake Mead. On both evenings the water was smooth as glass. The last morning spent at the Lake was rough and windy and no surface activity was observed.
I'm not sure if I'd call them boils. More like slurps. A school of stripers will surface in a rolling action, after small shad. These slurps don't last long and are hard to keep up with. Wednesday evening, after finding fish, I would stay with them using the electric motor until they would dive. Then it would become a waiting game. Sometimes the stripers resurface close enough to the boat to continue pursuit with the electric motor, other times far enough away, requiring the use of the outboard to catch up with them. If lucky, the stripers would stay on the surface, driving their prey all the way across a cove to the shoreline, allowing several casts into them....sorry I'm rambling. Anyway, I'm hoping that as the shad grow in size, so will the boils that we all love. You know, stripers slapping the surface hard, ripping it up, striking at about anything thrown at them. Amen.
BaySport
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I'm not sure if I'd call them boils. More like slurps. A school of stripers will surface in a rolling action, after small shad. These slurps don't last long and are hard to keep up with. Wednesday evening, after finding fish, I would stay with them using the electric motor until they would dive. Then it would become a waiting game. Sometimes the stripers resurface close enough to the boat to continue pursuit with the electric motor, other times far enough away, requiring the use of the outboard to catch up with them. If lucky, the stripers would stay on the surface, driving their prey all the way across a cove to the shoreline, allowing several casts into them....sorry I'm rambling. Anyway, I'm hoping that as the shad grow in size, so will the boils that we all love. You know, stripers slapping the surface hard, ripping it up, striking at about anything thrown at them. Amen.
BaySport
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