03-30-2011, 08:35 PM
Hello folks,
On the water at 33 hole by 3:30pm. Mostly went out to play with the new electronics and start tuning up my boat setup. So I netted 6 or 7 shad and then started cruising looking for fish on the radar. I didn't even put a line in, just cruised looking for fish on the radar. Pretty much covered the whole government wash area. Lotsa clouds of shad and I saw a pretty tight ball twice, but I only marked single fish. Never saw more than 2 or 3 on the graph at once and those were sparse.
A couple of the shad were looking almost dead so I stopped to fish before they all went belly up. I cut up and chummed the dead ones. I drop shotted a live shad about 3 ft off the bottom and within an hour I had two nice fat little stripers and was out of shad. It was getting late so I decided to try a bit of trolling. Missed a nice hit and finally located 5 or so fish on the depth finder and threw the fly rod at them. I got one nice strike on a grey and white clouser which I missed as well. It was getting pretty dark at this point so I packed it in.
I saw one of the most beautiful sunsets of my life yesterday. I took several pictures, but the colors didn't come through on the camera like in real life. Absolutely gorgeous.
EDIT>> I wanted to give Iamthesmf credit for the gray/white clouser. He gave it to me at the cleanup this weekend. I meant to do it earlier but I was typing quick 'cuz I was running late for work.
Later,
Mark
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On the water at 33 hole by 3:30pm. Mostly went out to play with the new electronics and start tuning up my boat setup. So I netted 6 or 7 shad and then started cruising looking for fish on the radar. I didn't even put a line in, just cruised looking for fish on the radar. Pretty much covered the whole government wash area. Lotsa clouds of shad and I saw a pretty tight ball twice, but I only marked single fish. Never saw more than 2 or 3 on the graph at once and those were sparse.
A couple of the shad were looking almost dead so I stopped to fish before they all went belly up. I cut up and chummed the dead ones. I drop shotted a live shad about 3 ft off the bottom and within an hour I had two nice fat little stripers and was out of shad. It was getting late so I decided to try a bit of trolling. Missed a nice hit and finally located 5 or so fish on the depth finder and threw the fly rod at them. I got one nice strike on a grey and white clouser which I missed as well. It was getting pretty dark at this point so I packed it in.
I saw one of the most beautiful sunsets of my life yesterday. I took several pictures, but the colors didn't come through on the camera like in real life. Absolutely gorgeous.
EDIT>> I wanted to give Iamthesmf credit for the gray/white clouser. He gave it to me at the cleanup this weekend. I meant to do it earlier but I was typing quick 'cuz I was running late for work.
Later,
Mark
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