Post by seajay on Jul 6, 2015 20:28:47 GMT -5
I was able to get out and fish with my boy for a few hours each morning over the holiday weekend.
7/4 Saturday Morning
Caught bait Friday evening at a deep water light, small to medium ales . Slept In a little and left the dock at 8:00. A buddy had texted me wanting to know if I was fishing and said he was fishing up towards b&b not really seeing much. Told him I was gonna hit lower blackwater area on a search mission .Headed towards where I had caught fish a few weeks ago and started looking up from there. There was a few other boats in the area , it wasn't long and I started marking some bait and then fish. Set out 6 planers with 25 ft free line and 4 down rods 20-30 ft. When my 8 year old is with me it's all about him and any rods that get hit I leave it all up to him . It wasn't long and a planer rod was singing . He grabbed it and it was on ! 27" put up a good fight , lol.
Skunk off the boat!
We had another planer rod get hammered but it let go shortly after he grabbed the rod . A little while later a down rod got crushed and was ripping drag but let off almost as soon as he got to the rod. We were marking good pods of bait and fish but not getting any more action . Finally had another planer get hit and he reeled in a decent green fish.
Things had gotten slow so we decided to call it a morning and head back for some brunch.
7/5 Sunday morning.
We had caught bait after the fireworks Saturday night. It was tougher than the night before . We had decided to head back to the same spot we were at the morning before and we pulled in there about 7:15 . As soon as we dropped down we started marking fish. Put out the same spread as the morning before and shortly later had one hit a planer but it let go before he could get to it. He was bummed. A few other boats started to show up and it wasn't long 2 boats were hooked up beside us. One of them , my buddy Mark who had a young boy on board hooked up. After watch several fish get boated my boy was getting frustrated , lol! "Why aren't we catching anything dad?" " That's why they call it fishing , not catching, son. Be patient." About 10 minutes later as we had made our way past a few boats the screen went black and was covered up with fish. I told him to get ready and it was on!!! Chinese fire drill ! He ended up boating 3 fish out of that group , as soon as he would get one in the boat another rod would go off. A little while later hit another big school and he boated 2 more fish. Picked up a few others after that. He lost a few in the chaos but he boated 7 stripers and a 2.5 pound channel cat all before 9:00. I don't have any pictures because he said " Dad we don't have time for pictures" lol. Oh well , I love watching him catch fish and get excited about it. Priceless times! Can't wait to get back out there
7/4 Saturday Morning
Caught bait Friday evening at a deep water light, small to medium ales . Slept In a little and left the dock at 8:00. A buddy had texted me wanting to know if I was fishing and said he was fishing up towards b&b not really seeing much. Told him I was gonna hit lower blackwater area on a search mission .Headed towards where I had caught fish a few weeks ago and started looking up from there. There was a few other boats in the area , it wasn't long and I started marking some bait and then fish. Set out 6 planers with 25 ft free line and 4 down rods 20-30 ft. When my 8 year old is with me it's all about him and any rods that get hit I leave it all up to him . It wasn't long and a planer rod was singing . He grabbed it and it was on ! 27" put up a good fight , lol.
Skunk off the boat!
We had another planer rod get hammered but it let go shortly after he grabbed the rod . A little while later a down rod got crushed and was ripping drag but let off almost as soon as he got to the rod. We were marking good pods of bait and fish but not getting any more action . Finally had another planer get hit and he reeled in a decent green fish.
Things had gotten slow so we decided to call it a morning and head back for some brunch.
7/5 Sunday morning.
We had caught bait after the fireworks Saturday night. It was tougher than the night before . We had decided to head back to the same spot we were at the morning before and we pulled in there about 7:15 . As soon as we dropped down we started marking fish. Put out the same spread as the morning before and shortly later had one hit a planer but it let go before he could get to it. He was bummed. A few other boats started to show up and it wasn't long 2 boats were hooked up beside us. One of them , my buddy Mark who had a young boy on board hooked up. After watch several fish get boated my boy was getting frustrated , lol! "Why aren't we catching anything dad?" " That's why they call it fishing , not catching, son. Be patient." About 10 minutes later as we had made our way past a few boats the screen went black and was covered up with fish. I told him to get ready and it was on!!! Chinese fire drill ! He ended up boating 3 fish out of that group , as soon as he would get one in the boat another rod would go off. A little while later hit another big school and he boated 2 more fish. Picked up a few others after that. He lost a few in the chaos but he boated 7 stripers and a 2.5 pound channel cat all before 9:00. I don't have any pictures because he said " Dad we don't have time for pictures" lol. Oh well , I love watching him catch fish and get excited about it. Priceless times! Can't wait to get back out there