Post by HookedUP on Apr 24, 2015 20:42:43 GMT -5
Phone took a dump on me Wednesday morning and I didn't stop fishing to get one till mid day today(friday)... Wednesday morning went to the dark side scouting solo. Had eyeballed around lucky island on topo map and decided to look there first. Immediately started marking fish so put out a spread. The wind was steadly picking up so I had to use the big motor, with 2 drift socks out the back and the trolling motor to steer me. The fish didn't care and the big ales where getting whacked. I had mayhem for the first hour. I couldn't keep up and was getting bites all over. I was soon out of control and forced to tie to the marker pole and where I threw cut and live bait on 3 way rigs and picked up a few more fish. Had a good Mix of long slender males and some fat females in the school and ended up boating 8-12 bites in the first few hours and the fish averaged from 26"-32" Wednesday afternoon I fished solo in the Yacht club close to the bridge and picked up 3 fish all on boards. These where a smaller class of fish 24"-28" all on big ales. THURSDAY morning woke up to a dead phone and no alarm clock so of course it was after daylight and I was scrambling to find bait. Catching bait at night around lights is the hot ticket up here. By 12:00 and 100 throws and I had enough bait gizzard and ales to fish the evening bite. Mud was steady pushing me further down the lake so I fished the state park from 1:00-4:00 with 0 bites. Kept rolling south looking. Ended up in Craddock where I marked some bait and a few fish. Had a steady bite of males and females and caught 4 fish that evening a fat 13lb female on a rip raff point was the big fish of the trip so far. Friday morning, ran straight to Craddock and had a steady bite for the first hour of daylight. Caught 4 more fish and 16lb female on the same rip raff point as the big fish from yesterday. I did a few more passes on this one point but no love. Had a great week for learning and patterning the lake. Fought muddy water and high winds all week forcing me to adapt and only fish areas where the wind would allow making it a lot tougher conditions. All in all I boated 26 fish in 5 days and 16lb was my big fish for the week. I covered many many miles of water and super tough conditions but am sad it's over and ready to get back and do it all over again when the WIND IS NOT GAILING, and I can actually fish where I want.
