8/26 report - over 6 feet of striper at once!

[drag4striper]

What a beautiful morning. The air temp was 60-81 and very breezy, but laid as the day progressed. Water temp was 79.3 - 81.5.

My plan was to find fish to jig on. After searching around I found some on the bottom. Those fish would zip up on the sonar and

take a look and that was it. So I put out a U rig while I was looking for another school. Caught a dink soon after and made a quick

release. I looked back at the sonar and there was a huge cloud of bait with fish under it, so out comes the fluke again. They again

would look at it , but no takers. It is amazing to watch them run up to look at the jig on sonar. I lost the school and never got back

on them. I put the U rig back out with no more action on the BW side for two hours. I was getting warm enough to take the ride to

the Roanoke arm. I found a few fish scattered around S turn and put out a U rig and a lead core with a swim bait on it. I did get a 

strike on the U rig in short time with no hook up. I got a little discouraged. Later I saw a lot of bait and a few fish. Directly a bait

clicker screamed as line peeled out and the rod was doubled over. I wrestled the rod from the holder with line still peeling out and

tightened the drag. For a minute I thought I was hung up and looked at the sonar screen to see there where no trees. At first I couldn't

even wind and the drag as tight as it would go. The thoughts of a BIGUN crossed my mind as I played it. I finally started to make a little

headway and as it got close I could see several fish on. As I got the U rig closer I could see FOUR fish on DAM! Then one came off

and I finally got THREE in the boat. I snapped a few pics on the phone and released them as fast as I could. I didn't measure them

because it took so long get them in. I would guess two at 24 or 25 and one at 26 or 27 inches. That U rig looked like it got caught 

under a lawn mower. It took me ten minutes to fix it. I thought I would call it a day with over six feet of fish on at once and headed

 for the barn.    

[primetime]

Great day in the morning! That makes me want to fish!! Congrats!!

[mwardncsu]

Greedy little critters, aren't they

[drag4striper]

Yes they were, BUT I LIKED IT!...... Don't think it would ever happen. But what if....... nine got on at once?

Might have to change my britches.

[seajay]

Nice report. That's wild to have 4 on one rig. I bet you did think you had a bigun !!Most I ever had was 2. One time I had a striper and a large mouth on one as well.

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Awesome!!!

about 5 years ago a buddy and I got back from the bay striper fishing on a saturday...... sunday he wanted to hit the lake so I obliged..... pulling u rigs when one hooked up, nice 10lb fish..... turned around and went back over them and hooked up...... told my buddy it was his... he fought and fought and fought, and said listen, grab the net, this is as big as anything I caught at the bay, ( he caught a 42 & 45lb there)  I just laughed and told him to quit being a wuss and reel it in, that there was no way it was any where near what he had caught at the bay..... after about 15 minutes, with him jumping up and down and swearing it was a monster fish, he had about convinced me it was...... I was standing beside him with the net when he finally got it up on top and it was a 15lber hooked in the tail on one bait and about a 10lber hooked in the mouth by one bait and in the tail by another, coming thru the water sideways.... I was still riding him about it the other day.....

[drag4striper]

Seajay a multi species hookup is pretty cool. Around ten years ago I was trolling for walleye with four rods and connected on all of them at once.

And I did manage boat all off them. Wild to see all the rods load about the same time. They love those Sutton spoons.

Bigun I just saw your post and that was wild as well. I enjoy reading good fishing and hunting stories. Thanks for sharing.

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 side note.....

that was Feb. 9th about 5 years ago and I think the last time I pulled u rigs..... kinda got away from it and just went live bait. For some odd reason a lot of folks just think of pulling u rigs as a summertime thing.... all I can say is... you don't know what you are missing if you are not pulling them in dec, jan and about half of feb..... put your rods in your front rod holders where your u-rigs will stay in the cone angle of your unit ( so much easier to keep up with them and speed up if you need to to keep them out of the trees) and pull with your trolling motor about 1-1.5 mph, just fast enough where you can see the u-rigs on your graph....... and take an extra fully charged trolling motor battery......

I've prolly got four u rigs a retriever and a bunch of 2 to 10 inch leaders and swim baits laying around somewhere..... soon as I find them and run into that dang cowboy, I'm going to give them to him.

[drag4striper]

Those are some great tips Bigun. I have pulled home made 5 arm a-rigs slow and in the cold months, but not from the front.

I like the thoughts of seeing them in the cone.

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I always just looked until I found some fish.... at say, 50 ft. deep, always did good New Years weekend for instance... I would go past them.... get in the back of the boat and let my u-rigs straight down while watching the graph and stop them at 50 ft., put them in the front rod holders and would be about 5 ft. above them when I pulled back thru them slow with my trolling motor.......

[drag4striper]

Great info ! I will tell something on myself. While jigging over a small school with no luck. I dropped a U-rig down on top of them and tried a figure

eight swimming them, but no takers. I bet I scared the crap out of those fish. LOL 

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 Used to be a guy on the old site (J D) that would remove the hook from a 2 oz. spoon, tie on a 4 ft leader and a fluke and figure 8 it.... caught a lot of fish.....

[lund1]

That's a nice report Drag4.....I put some time on the water this week with artificials....pretty disappointing results for me. I was just thinking this Urig thing is for the birds and then dam Bigun has to introduce a whole new dam way to fish them....drop em off the bow so they stay in the cone??!!!.... That's friggen genius.....

[lund1]

....and I remember JD.... Talk about genius. Never met him except on the board.....a cerebral fisherman.

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leo was his boyfriend. ..... they used to dockup like travis and bigjon  LOL