Post by HokieChad on Nov 8, 2014 0:22:24 GMT -5
A Friday that just needed some fishing. A little after lunch I decided to brave the wind and head out. The main channel was white-capping pretty good and it made looking for big shad almost impossible. I slipped into a few coves/creeks and the shad were there. Got about 15 shad (various sizes) and still had to battle the wind. For good measure, picked up some peanuts just in case I needed some downline bait. Shared some bait with Mward and kept enough shad to fish with.
Techniques - big shad on boards (one board each side) with about 20 ft of line from the board. 2 downlines with 2oz weights (20-30 ft down), 2 downlines with 3/4oz weights (30-50 ft line out).
Water temp and conditions - 58 where I fished, clear (4 ft vis) with lots of leaves
Air temp - 50 degrees with NW winds 15-20 diminishing to 10 or less
Looked for areas that I could get a little protection from the wind and found a few fish that didn't want to cooperate early on. But finally around 3:45 the wind decided to diminish a little and the bite picked up. The 3/4oz downlines outproduced the 2oz downlines today. I boated 3 fish (no big fish) and had one decent one rip off about 30 ft of drag and then just came unhooked.
All things considered I felt like I accomplished something today.....found and captured bait on a terribly windy day, managed to catch fish under challenging conditions, only spent 3 hours on the water. Back in town to eat dinner with my best gal and my little man Clayton!
Techniques - big shad on boards (one board each side) with about 20 ft of line from the board. 2 downlines with 2oz weights (20-30 ft down), 2 downlines with 3/4oz weights (30-50 ft line out).
Water temp and conditions - 58 where I fished, clear (4 ft vis) with lots of leaves
Air temp - 50 degrees with NW winds 15-20 diminishing to 10 or less
Looked for areas that I could get a little protection from the wind and found a few fish that didn't want to cooperate early on. But finally around 3:45 the wind decided to diminish a little and the bite picked up. The 3/4oz downlines outproduced the 2oz downlines today. I boated 3 fish (no big fish) and had one decent one rip off about 30 ft of drag and then just came unhooked.
All things considered I felt like I accomplished something today.....found and captured bait on a terribly windy day, managed to catch fish under challenging conditions, only spent 3 hours on the water. Back in town to eat dinner with my best gal and my little man Clayton!
