Post by mwardncsu on Oct 20, 2016 9:06:04 GMT -5
Weather: too dang hot - low 80's I guess, mostly sunny, no wind
Water: 72-73, visiblity of a couple of feet
Techniques: pulling "silver dollar" - 5" or so gizzards on freeline boards - 3 bank-side and 1 on the deep side - and one freeline out the back of the boat.
I had to run up to the lake yesterday to run a bunch of errands related to our tournament next weekend, but things aligned to get out on the water at the end of the day - even if only for an hour and a half. Tyler drove over after he got off work and we jumped on the water a bit after 5:30 - very little time so I tossed the net a few times in the creek and put 18 or so silver dollar gizzards in the tank as that's all the creek was delivering in short-order - so around 6 or a bit after we put those baits out on boards and got to fishing...
It was a bit of a slow go to start, a couple of boards got too close to a dock and wrapped around a piling, and while we were working one out a fish nailed the other and broke the line.. probably a bass hanging around the dock. We recovered the board and got to pulling again and as we neared the end of the 1st pull along one bank the deep-side board buried and started peeling drag.
We circled the other side of the creek and pulled along without any action - one of my favorite points has been ruined with a brand new dock & and floating trampoline thing on it that appeared over the summer
- but as well pulled on down past a floater the inside bank board tugged back - set the hook and found a nice smallie on the other end of the line.
Still working that same rotation on down the bank when I picked up another (smaller) smallie on the inside board while Tyler was landing a striper off the freeline out back
We started working a 2nd loop and got Tyler another small striper
We were losing light fast - pulled one of the promising banks one last time when the middle-bank board shot off - this felt like a better fish than the others..... guess it was, though the wrong species...... other than it rounding off a "SML Slam" for us....
Put the boat back in the slip as darkness fully set in - no more than an hour and a half on the water but the striper itch was scratched for the time being......
Water: 72-73, visiblity of a couple of feet
Techniques: pulling "silver dollar" - 5" or so gizzards on freeline boards - 3 bank-side and 1 on the deep side - and one freeline out the back of the boat.
I had to run up to the lake yesterday to run a bunch of errands related to our tournament next weekend, but things aligned to get out on the water at the end of the day - even if only for an hour and a half. Tyler drove over after he got off work and we jumped on the water a bit after 5:30 - very little time so I tossed the net a few times in the creek and put 18 or so silver dollar gizzards in the tank as that's all the creek was delivering in short-order - so around 6 or a bit after we put those baits out on boards and got to fishing...
It was a bit of a slow go to start, a couple of boards got too close to a dock and wrapped around a piling, and while we were working one out a fish nailed the other and broke the line.. probably a bass hanging around the dock. We recovered the board and got to pulling again and as we neared the end of the 1st pull along one bank the deep-side board buried and started peeling drag.
We circled the other side of the creek and pulled along without any action - one of my favorite points has been ruined with a brand new dock & and floating trampoline thing on it that appeared over the summer
- but as well pulled on down past a floater the inside bank board tugged back - set the hook and found a nice smallie on the other end of the line.Still working that same rotation on down the bank when I picked up another (smaller) smallie on the inside board while Tyler was landing a striper off the freeline out back
We started working a 2nd loop and got Tyler another small striper
We were losing light fast - pulled one of the promising banks one last time when the middle-bank board shot off - this felt like a better fish than the others..... guess it was, though the wrong species...... other than it rounding off a "SML Slam" for us....
Put the boat back in the slip as darkness fully set in - no more than an hour and a half on the water but the striper itch was scratched for the time being......
But you are right - they have more freedom and generally deeper water that you want them to run down into, so we do put more out the back on the lake/channel side boards vs. the bank boards - and even on the bank boards, the ones closer to the boat get a bit more line than the one closest to the bank if we're running it really tight to the bank
