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Post by cmaness on Jan 10, 2016 12:43:03 GMT -5
Hi SML fishermen, I just wanted to take a moment and introduce myself. My name is Chad and I'm 41yrs old from Greensboro NC. I am Married with 2 kids. A 15yr old daughter and 10yr old son. My dad and I fish on a 21' tidewater cc. We have experience fishing at the coast but have not done alot of lake fishing. We got into striper fishing for saltwater striper at Virginia Beach several years ago. My pb saltwater striper is 37lber. I have a good friend that has a place at SML. They have never striper fished, but do alot of bass fishing. This is what brings us here! My dad, my son and I are making our first (of hopefully many) trips to SML this coming Sunday and Monday. I have been trying to do as much research on fishing for fresh water striper at this lake as I can so maybe we will have a chance at catching a few on our first trip. I just want to a minute and thank you all for the tips you have taken time to post for us newbies to read. I have learned a lot from these post! My buddies place is at the lower end of the lake so we will most likely be fishing up BW. Sounds like looking for birds and casting or jugging flukes or bucktails maybe what we try to do. I hope to have a good report to say we caught a few and my son caught his first. If not, we'll that's ok too. Atleat we went fishing!!
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Post by smlmike on Jan 10, 2016 12:55:23 GMT -5
Welcome! Wish I was headed down. Good luck to to the third generation on getting his first!
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Post by Gator on Jan 10, 2016 13:28:12 GMT -5
Welcome to the forum, more importantly, welcome to the BW. Lots of water on that side with about 8-10 fish. Ha. Don't let it get ya down though. If you see lund1 tooling around...then you are in the right spot. Tight lines.
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Post by mwardncsu on Jan 10, 2016 13:28:32 GMT -5
This is the time for swimbaits and flukes on jigs. Seem to be getting better success casting, counting down and retrieving than jigging right now but that may change soon as the water temp cools a bit more. Just have to see what they want that day.
The birds as your friends but if they are lazy work the electronics. If you are setup for live bait try some lightlines and downlines when you mark scattered fish.
Look forward to hearing of your outing - catching or not - I'm sure to will be a good time regardless
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Post by cmaness on Jan 10, 2016 18:57:58 GMT -5
Great to hear from you guys! Thanks for the tips, I'll try and put them to good use. Maybe we will catch one of them 8-10 fish? We will be sure and let u guys know how we do!
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Post by coheasion on Jan 11, 2016 8:30:40 GMT -5
Hi Chad - 43 yr old with a 14 YO daughter from Cary here and I also fish the Blackwater pretty exclusively....sounds eerily similar lol! I have only started fishing SML in the last couple of months so I am by no means any kind of expert but I am starting to slowly learn.
I didn't notice when you said your first trip would be but I plan to be up at the lake this coming weekend. I will shoot you a PM and maybe we can share some information
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2016 8:37:11 GMT -5
Welcome. The BW is loaded with interesting contours. If the birds are down, you might find it interesting to look at your contour map, pick something that looks cool and pull some bait over it. Ledges, humps, points... Etc.
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Post by lund1 on Jan 12, 2016 7:57:20 GMT -5
Chad- glad to hear you're planning on fishing the BW.... The Roanoke side is too damn easy. Heck, there are some guys that actually name individual fish and know where they "live". They pull up ,drop baits, catch the named fish, take pics and then release her...sorta like those swimming pools filled with hatchery trout at the fishing expos. Now, on the BW, there are only 8-10 fish total. It takes a lot of work, gas and ideally a big cowboy hat to find them. I haven't been on the lake in months, but one of my boys who graduated college this Dec and believes he's now retired has been. He's been marking fish around the 3 islands...B13. Give it a scout.
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Post by primetime on Jan 12, 2016 10:31:47 GMT -5
Ive been told there is a stringer on the dark side. Haha
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Post by cmaness on Jan 12, 2016 19:25:02 GMT -5
Thanks for the tips stripedyam and lund1!! Hope we find that stringer primetime! Lol..
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Post by Gator on Jan 12, 2016 19:43:52 GMT -5
Lund, I have to disagree. You just have to have a nice hat. Oh, gotta work your ass off too. That's the best part.
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Post by mwardncsu on Jan 14, 2016 14:37:08 GMT -5
How'd the trip go - post up a report in the reports section to share your experiences - likely that all will learn something from it in the process.....
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