Launched at gray light and started trolling the A/C plugs. Pretty slow til I see the wife’s pole go bendo about 9am.The drag is screaming and she is trying to get it out of the rod holder. After a couple more short runs she gets her in. This striper was huge, like a submarine. Got to shore with it and she weighed 23.88 lbs. This is my wife’s personal best and beating mine by a pound. This fish had a 1.5lb trout in its belly. Nice to be in some good fish again.
Great report and congrats to your wife on the big striper, awesome fish. Were you two fishing from your kayaks?
Yes we were in our kayaks. I was listening to her telling me of a stump just under the surface when I saw her trolling rod double up,the drag started to scream and heard a big splash thirty yards behind her kayak.
Wow, that means she was pretty shallow or at least coming up on shallow water, I always thought those big fish stayed in the deeper water. I guess they have to come up to feed some time. How fast you you think you guys were trolling?
Maybe 2-3mph. Not very fast. Also the water there is pretty cold coming out from below Hoover dam. They like it cooler.
I did not know those lures could be trolling that fast, I got a similar lure, a few years past, and they did nothing but spin if I went over 1.5 mph. I see,that colder water explain how they could be that shallow.
Awesome catch.
Tom