# lake mead 5/1/09 **URL:** \ **Category:** Nevada Fishing General\ **Created:** [May 3, 2009, 12:12am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/lake-mead-5-1-09/148697 "2009-05-03T00:12:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BigE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8edcca/32.png) [@BigE](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/BigE)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2009, 12:12am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/lake-mead-5-1-09/148697/1 "2009-05-03T00:12:56Z")
🕶Went out after work on friday to south of 33 hole. Talked to a guy that just got back to his truck and he said that he caught 8 stripers in about two hours in one of the coves. He was fishing from shore and said that the fish were chasing shad to the rocky shore. I went to that cove in my floattube and got 8 stripers myself on a Johnson beetle spin in chartruese. I kept the three biggest ones(1.5lbs ea.) and released the rest. They were chasing very small baitfish( i couldn’t tell if they were shad) up against the rocks. Left the lake right before the wind came up. ---
**Author:** ![bmitchell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cdc98d/32.png) [@bmitchell](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/bmitchell)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2009, 3:12am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/lake-mead-5-1-09/148697/2 "2009-05-03T03:12:40Z")
Good to hear you got into some fish BigE. I was finally able to get on the water Friday morning. Man is that a hike with a float tube. Hit the water just before sunup and there were fish breaking the surface all around. I was just south of the 33 hole also. At least I think it was south. Toward the old Las Vegas Wash. Went out of the left parking lot. Ended up hooking up with two cats and that is all. I couldn’t get anything else’s attention. I really wanted some LMB or SMB, but nothing. I don’t know if I am ready for that hike again any time soon. May just need to stick with Boulder Harbor until I get hungry enough to try again for some bass. ---
**Author:** ![TheWhizzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@TheWhizzle](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/TheWhizzle)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2009, 3:58am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/lake-mead-5-1-09/148697/3 "2009-05-03T03:58:56Z")
Way to ‘match the hatch’ BigE. Nice observations. I’m heading out tomorrow; I can’t decide between Callville or Echo… Probably Callville so I don’t waste so much gas. Try for some bass and stripers and maybe some cats if I can find the bigger ones (over 5lbs). Ill throw up a post with pics when I get back. ---
**Author:** ![BigE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8edcca/32.png) [@BigE](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/BigE)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2009, 7:53pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/lake-mead-5-1-09/148697/4 "2009-05-03T19:53:49Z")
🕶Hey bmitchell, yeah it is a decent hike to the water but it can be rewarding. The stripers are probably hitting the small shad this time of year. I couldn’t see the size of the baitfish(shad) on friday but am asuming they were shad larvare. The sripers chasing them were also small(half pounders or smaller) with a couple larger models mixed in. I have used a flyrod for theses guys in years past and have been waiting to try it again this year. I might go out this friday and try it. ---
**Author:** ![bmitchell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cdc98d/32.png) [@bmitchell](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/bmitchell)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2009, 11:53pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/lake-mead-5-1-09/148697/5 "2009-05-03T23:53:01Z")
So were you headed out towards the lake or in towards the old wash? I guess I could make an argument for each direction being south, but that is my demented sense of directions[;)]. I want to head out this week again, maybe tomorrow evening. Just have to find a place where I don’t sink to my knee in mud launching the tube. Thanks for the info. I only have another month here in Nevada and want to try to get out as much as possible. ---
**Author:** ![BigE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8edcca/32.png) [@BigE](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/BigE)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 12:16am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/lake-mead-5-1-09/148697/6 "2009-05-05T00:16:36Z")
🕶Hey bmitchell, I sent you a PM ---
**Author:** ![BaySport](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@BaySport](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/BaySport)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 3:49pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/lake-mead-5-1-09/148697/7 "2009-05-06T15:49:14Z")
Great report! _They were chasing very small baitfish_ \*\* Sounds about right for the lower basin this time of year. BaySport