2/23 morning white out

[drag4striper]

WT 49-53
AT 47-68
Bad foggy until 10 ish burning off to sunny skies turning partly cloudy by evening.
13 mph winds at times.
Free line planers , and light line floats for the day.
Morning was slow with a couple of chases and three non targeted species.
While I had a planer bait getting chased up on top a heron swooped down from no where and snatched my bait, lucky the planer weight was to much and it dropped my bait. Thank goodness it didn't get hooked.







Later in the day I took a friend's advice I made a move to different part of the lake for the afternoon.
I put three fish of the right species in the boat with a couple of chases. One of which impressed me with an acrobatics show, coming at least a foot out of the water with the board in tow.






Nothing of great size but fun .
31" was the largest.

[mwardncsu]

The largemouth seem to be hungry too....

Glad you got your bearings corrected

[coheasion]

You could probably have won some big bucks in a bass tourney with that catch!

[drag4striper]

Probably cause a few dirty looks, but thought pretty hard about eating these fat largemouth.
But they were returned to the deep.
Shoot if I had caught that heron I could have had fins and feathers for supper.
Just joking about the heron.

[coheasion]

Just don't get caught by Johnny Law when you catch that heroin!! ;-)

[startingover]

NOW I understand why you guys are so addicted to striper fishing!!!

[jmr04]

I was fishing down in Key West with a guide a few weeks ago. Caught a grouper that was out of season. Asked me if I wanted to keep it. I declined. He replied, are you sure? The only thing better than an out of season grouper is an out of season grouper battered with a bald eagle egg. He actually was kind of an ass but I did find that statement to be funny.

[198vx]

A few years ago I witnessed Cats n Stripers manhandle a heron, or get manhandled. Wish I would have thought and recorded it, but was to busy being entertained.