Post by striperjohn on Apr 20, 2016 5:49:00 GMT -5
Little late getting this out. I took my neighbors son (11) and my grandson out early am. Got a late start due to logistics but didn't get the boat in the water until 7. Then the bait search. Goodness I bet I marked a million plus peanuts in one cove! The topwater bite coming should be awesome. Managed to get about a half dozen big gizzards and another dozen moneymakers along with 3 dozen peanuts.
I went back to places that produce this time of year only to be met with boats sitting there, 6 different places. Then finally just set up to pull a different area and we hit a nice 30 incher on a peanut off a float. Then I marked probably the biggest school I've marked in years. Big school and had some really big fish in it we caught a 35 and a 37 both on peanuts. They weren't interested in anything big. Didn't have my damn SD card in so I didn't get any copies of the school.
We turned around to get back on that school and they were gone. Moving rapidly.
I headed south about a mile to a channel choke point hoping to head them off, and within minutes of putting two floats out and one planer and working on the second when all hell broke loose as all four lines including the one I was putting out got blasted. We managed to salvage two fish landed looked to be about 28-30 inches as I was trying like heck to get more lines out and the boat angle corrected as I almost hit a dock. Can you say "total chaos"?
My neighbors boy says "WOW is striper fishing always like this?" my grandson chimes in with "nah it's got a lot of really boring stuff too".
So I decided to see if I could pull that catching up to them trick again and raced back down the lake another mile and a half and set up again, but alas no takers. Turned back up the lake and saw one of the longtime guides who is a friend, and went over to talk a bit. He said I saw what you were doing did you catch them again? He said they turned back across the channel and went up through here we caught 3 out of them and that guy up on the point caught one and missed one as they seemed to circle in this turn.
By then it was almost lunch and both boys were chewing on my boat seats so we headed to the Pizza Pub, my grandson's favorite. I think I should buy stock in that place.
After lunch I didn't mark anything but we pulled a few banks with no hits. Headed home about 3 and called it a good day.
Fish are schooling up, moving fast and starting to get that ugly S word on their brains.
Like my friend Bigun says the easy catching "while they're shallow" is over, now you have to start working to find em and catch them.
Oh btw all fish came on peanuts, light lines, floats and planers 15-18ft behind.
Cheers,
John
I went back to places that produce this time of year only to be met with boats sitting there, 6 different places. Then finally just set up to pull a different area and we hit a nice 30 incher on a peanut off a float. Then I marked probably the biggest school I've marked in years. Big school and had some really big fish in it we caught a 35 and a 37 both on peanuts. They weren't interested in anything big. Didn't have my damn SD card in so I didn't get any copies of the school.
We turned around to get back on that school and they were gone. Moving rapidly.
I headed south about a mile to a channel choke point hoping to head them off, and within minutes of putting two floats out and one planer and working on the second when all hell broke loose as all four lines including the one I was putting out got blasted. We managed to salvage two fish landed looked to be about 28-30 inches as I was trying like heck to get more lines out and the boat angle corrected as I almost hit a dock. Can you say "total chaos"?
My neighbors boy says "WOW is striper fishing always like this?" my grandson chimes in with "nah it's got a lot of really boring stuff too".
So I decided to see if I could pull that catching up to them trick again and raced back down the lake another mile and a half and set up again, but alas no takers. Turned back up the lake and saw one of the longtime guides who is a friend, and went over to talk a bit. He said I saw what you were doing did you catch them again? He said they turned back across the channel and went up through here we caught 3 out of them and that guy up on the point caught one and missed one as they seemed to circle in this turn.
By then it was almost lunch and both boys were chewing on my boat seats so we headed to the Pizza Pub, my grandson's favorite. I think I should buy stock in that place.
After lunch I didn't mark anything but we pulled a few banks with no hits. Headed home about 3 and called it a good day.
Fish are schooling up, moving fast and starting to get that ugly S word on their brains.
Like my friend Bigun says the easy catching "while they're shallow" is over, now you have to start working to find em and catch them.
Oh btw all fish came on peanuts, light lines, floats and planers 15-18ft behind.
Cheers,
John
