Post by drag4striper on Sept 4, 2016 11:40:50 GMT -5
Knowing the Roanoke side would be stirred up from holiday traffic as well as the wind I decided to go fishing anyway.
Water was rough my girlfriend said....
I put in at penhook and to my surprise the WT was 79.5.
We marked scattered fish and dropped out two u-rigs.
While putting the second line out the first loaded up, fish on.
I was getting ready to swap places with my girlfriend and the fish came off. Brought the u rig in an the leader had came apart , jig gone. Around thirty minutes later hooked up again.
Skunk was officially off the boat.
We got the other line in and went back to the starting point because there was no way to cross the channel without getting ran over
while trolling.
Next pull we hooked up close to the same spot. I told my girlfriend to stop the boat and get the other line in, because it felt like a nice fish. A pontoon saw the action and stopped to watch us. The fish came up to the surface about 50 ft. behind the boat and I felt the reel come off in my right hand....dang rod seat broke. Fish was still on so I hand lined it.
It was still pulling hard, got cuts to prove it.
Line went limp ten foot or so under the boat, fish straightened the jig out.
Cracked reel seat and a pulled wire leader. I always say stripers will find any weak link in your equipment.
We made two more pulls one hook up, lost halfway to the boat, and a good strike that pulled drag a few seconds.
We dropped five down lines
with cut bait for about an hour with no love.
Came off the lake at dark, not sure but I thought I saw shad slinger taken his boat out, but never got to speak to the guy to find out for sure.
Water was rough my girlfriend said....
I put in at penhook and to my surprise the WT was 79.5.
We marked scattered fish and dropped out two u-rigs.
While putting the second line out the first loaded up, fish on.
I was getting ready to swap places with my girlfriend and the fish came off. Brought the u rig in an the leader had came apart , jig gone. Around thirty minutes later hooked up again.
Skunk was officially off the boat.
We got the other line in and went back to the starting point because there was no way to cross the channel without getting ran over
while trolling.
Next pull we hooked up close to the same spot. I told my girlfriend to stop the boat and get the other line in, because it felt like a nice fish. A pontoon saw the action and stopped to watch us. The fish came up to the surface about 50 ft. behind the boat and I felt the reel come off in my right hand....dang rod seat broke. Fish was still on so I hand lined it.
It was still pulling hard, got cuts to prove it.
Line went limp ten foot or so under the boat, fish straightened the jig out.
Cracked reel seat and a pulled wire leader. I always say stripers will find any weak link in your equipment.
We made two more pulls one hook up, lost halfway to the boat, and a good strike that pulled drag a few seconds.
We dropped five down lines
with cut bait for about an hour with no love.
Came off the lake at dark, not sure but I thought I saw shad slinger taken his boat out, but never got to speak to the guy to find out for sure.
