03-29-2013, 06:24 PM
[cool]Took a spring break camping/fishing trip to Crawdad cove, got there in the morning of the 26th our usual spot was taken so we tried a different part of the cove. got a good campsite but the fishing was all bad, so much submerged brushn and shallow water, made for tough fishing even with 20lb big game
day 1, I did manage to get the smell of skunk off me from my previous 4 outings this year, and to land my first Lake Mead smallmouth it weighed in at 1.5lbs he ate my sardine on the bottom I had to keep it cause it swallowed the hook all the way down and was bleeding pretty bad from the gills. I tried resuscitating it but it went belly up.
I hooked another fish on the bottom and tried to let my wife reel it in but it got into the brush and broke off.
day 2 all I got was a 7lb carp. and lost 3 fish in a row that felt huge. lost them all to my 20lb test line breaking.
day 3 I managed one hook up in the same area I hooked up the 3 big ones the day before and once again line broke. so I went 2 for 7 on hook ups.
I did get a chance to test my hypothesis on Seafood City's "sardines" compared to the International Market Sardines and I had zero bites on the Seafood city bait. ALL of my bites (which were many) came on the International Market ones. [fishon]
all in all we had a great trip. and we even almost saw a rattlesnake! and I say almost cause we heard it rattle at us twice. but before I could locate it, my wife seen people invading our campsite from where we were, so we had to hurry back in case they took something.
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smallie
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fish on!
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7lb carp
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day 1, I did manage to get the smell of skunk off me from my previous 4 outings this year, and to land my first Lake Mead smallmouth it weighed in at 1.5lbs he ate my sardine on the bottom I had to keep it cause it swallowed the hook all the way down and was bleeding pretty bad from the gills. I tried resuscitating it but it went belly up.
I hooked another fish on the bottom and tried to let my wife reel it in but it got into the brush and broke off.
day 2 all I got was a 7lb carp. and lost 3 fish in a row that felt huge. lost them all to my 20lb test line breaking.
day 3 I managed one hook up in the same area I hooked up the 3 big ones the day before and once again line broke. so I went 2 for 7 on hook ups.
I did get a chance to test my hypothesis on Seafood City's "sardines" compared to the International Market Sardines and I had zero bites on the Seafood city bait. ALL of my bites (which were many) came on the International Market ones. [fishon]
all in all we had a great trip. and we even almost saw a rattlesnake! and I say almost cause we heard it rattle at us twice. but before I could locate it, my wife seen people invading our campsite from where we were, so we had to hurry back in case they took something.
camp
smallie
fish on!
7lb carp
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