8/30 late report

[seajay]

I guess better late than never.
Took my son and a friend of mine out for some striper fishing Sunday morning. Caught my bait the night before , mostly just small ales I had to really work for.
Started out looking on the lower end of blackwater and was not seeing much. Went scouting the Roanoke end from sportsmans up to R 22. Really did not see much but a few singles here and there. Decided to run back to blackwater. Started to mark decent pods of fish mid blackwater so we set out 8 down rods at around 40 ft. I don t know if the full moon messed with them but we were dragging bait right through fish without any hits. Finally we had a rod bend into the water and start ripping drag. My son jumped on it and after a bit of a difficult time he got it to the boat.

It was a slow morning but we managed 4 stripers and a nice channel cat . Gonna try again this Labor Day weekend early am before it gets to crazy out. Looking forward to some fall fishing. 

[mwardncsu]

Nice report Jay! Glad you guys got on a few that morning!

[drag4striper]

Nice report seajay. In opinion the fish feed more at night on a full moon. The moon can sky light the bait and fish feed in the peace and quiet.

[mwardncsu]

Sept 2, 2015 12:33:08 GMT -5 drag4striper said:

Nice report seajay. In opinion the fish feed more at night on a full moon. The moon can sky light the bait and fish feed in the peace and quiet.

I've never fished bait at night - I think you or another posted a positive report from last week doing that. It does seem the bite is later in the day - towards noon - when it is a full moon..... although I also found something interesting this summer - it seems the bite has been later in the morning all summer.... previous years it seemed the bite was done and over by 9-10, which was fine as that is when all the wakeboard / ski boats came out. This year it seems you won't mark a fish until after 8, and then not hit the schools till almost 10 or later......

[Gator]

I like how sailor made the pic!!

[drag4striper]

Sailor does look pretty cool as he slipped in the pic Gator. Mike I think you hit the nail on the head. If the fish feed most of a moon lite night.

Again my opinion , It stands to reason they wouldn't feed ( heavy ) again until around midday the following day.  

[stripercrazy]

They have many solunar hunting an fishing apps. These tell you your major an minor feeding periods according to the moon. It impressed me at how accurate these charts were. I got to where I fished these times this past spring an summer at nite on sml with lots of success. But remember nothing is 100 percent.