Post by striperjohn on May 4, 2015 5:37:58 GMT -5
Bait was tough yesterday am down lake, all my favorite spots had boats in them throwing nets. 
Finally got bait(small ales) at 0930. Sucks to live so far away from the lake.
By the time we got lines in we hit a nice LM and a huge catfish, but couldn't entice any Strippers, we tried dollar bills on 3/0 hooks with the alewives--notta nuttin. No takers.
Had lunch then found a new sweet bait place and loaded up with ales and two big gizzards. I hate throwing my net in uncharted waters.
Marked bait in the trees but no fish, turned around baited up and immediately had a big gizzard slammed, fish hit so fast and hard the planer board was almost out of the water and fish headed from 8 feet of water to 65 over a rocky ledge and my buddy said he felt the dang line rubbing the bottom. This went for about 20 seconds then line goes slack and came back and looked like it had been through a cheese shredder!
Two minutes later got another hit on gizzard in over 65 feet of water and fish went straight down into the trees and hung me up.
I shifted from 50 braid main/30 flour leader to 20/17 this year. Big mistake I'm thinking.
We never got a hit on alewives and we had some huge ones running the same tracks as the gizzards, no takers.
Had three different guides (that I've helped and have helped me over the years) come ask us if we were marking any fish. One said with his clients on board "I have no idea where to go, I can't mark a fish anywhere. I don't know what I'm going to do." Tough long day. BTW water temps started out at 62 and were 67.8 by 6pm. Spawn any day now with hot temps this next week.
Finally got bait(small ales) at 0930. Sucks to live so far away from the lake.By the time we got lines in we hit a nice LM and a huge catfish, but couldn't entice any Strippers, we tried dollar bills on 3/0 hooks with the alewives--notta nuttin. No takers.
Had lunch then found a new sweet bait place and loaded up with ales and two big gizzards. I hate throwing my net in uncharted waters.
Marked bait in the trees but no fish, turned around baited up and immediately had a big gizzard slammed, fish hit so fast and hard the planer board was almost out of the water and fish headed from 8 feet of water to 65 over a rocky ledge and my buddy said he felt the dang line rubbing the bottom. This went for about 20 seconds then line goes slack and came back and looked like it had been through a cheese shredder!
Two minutes later got another hit on gizzard in over 65 feet of water and fish went straight down into the trees and hung me up.
I shifted from 50 braid main/30 flour leader to 20/17 this year. Big mistake I'm thinking.
We never got a hit on alewives and we had some huge ones running the same tracks as the gizzards, no takers.
Had three different guides (that I've helped and have helped me over the years) come ask us if we were marking any fish. One said with his clients on board "I have no idea where to go, I can't mark a fish anywhere. I don't know what I'm going to do." Tough long day. BTW water temps started out at 62 and were 67.8 by 6pm. Spawn any day now with hot temps this next week.