3-28 - Night Bite/Fishing Injury-Kinda
Mar 29, 2017 12:21:48 GMT -5
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Post by slammer on Mar 29, 2017 12:21:48 GMT -5
Fished last night from 9:00pm until 3am, beautiful night, perfect weather and not another boat out there.
We had planned on leaving around 2am because one of my friends had to get up fairly early today. At 2am we had caught 16 fish and the bite was still decent. My one buddy said, " we aint leaving till we hit #20". lol. Caught #20 just before 3 am and left with the fish still feeding some. Water temp was around 56 to 58 after dark.
Caught 17 on gold/black f-18 rapallas, one on a deep diving rappala husky jerk in gold, 2 on deep diving rattlin rogue/blue silver. Fished mid Roanoke river and the fish we caught were mostly on shallow flat points, a few did come off of good rip rap banks and most were just inside the creeks to half way back. Some strong fish and some good "butterballs" with huge bellies. I rarely ever measure a fish, or weigh them,most were 26 to 30 fewish inches and fat !
I know most of you guys bait fish but when a good fish hits a lure about 6 feet from the boat and rips your rod half out of your hand, you can get injured. lol. I had one bend my middle finger to the side in a weird way, trying to not lose my rod and now its swollen and sore!
Oh, and this is funny. My fishing buddy, brought one of his buddies along that hasn't striper fished much at all. He brought spinning rods along. We were joking with him about having to sit in the "penalty box" if he casts into the trees and such in the dark. Well the first time he hit the trees, he handed me his rod to get the lure out. It was dark you know and I felt something stabbing me in my palm. Turned my light on, this dude had a casting rod with a spinning reel on it! The trigger was sticking up and stabbing me in the hand. We laughed so hard at that one. What was worse was when I told him about it, he said he would just grind it down. HAHAHA !!! He had a good night with that rod though, he caught 9 stripers and a 6 pound green fish on that jacked up pole.
Oh and just saying, a green fish is not a bonus. That's minus points.
We had planned on leaving around 2am because one of my friends had to get up fairly early today. At 2am we had caught 16 fish and the bite was still decent. My one buddy said, " we aint leaving till we hit #20". lol. Caught #20 just before 3 am and left with the fish still feeding some. Water temp was around 56 to 58 after dark.
Caught 17 on gold/black f-18 rapallas, one on a deep diving rappala husky jerk in gold, 2 on deep diving rattlin rogue/blue silver. Fished mid Roanoke river and the fish we caught were mostly on shallow flat points, a few did come off of good rip rap banks and most were just inside the creeks to half way back. Some strong fish and some good "butterballs" with huge bellies. I rarely ever measure a fish, or weigh them,most were 26 to 30 fewish inches and fat !
I know most of you guys bait fish but when a good fish hits a lure about 6 feet from the boat and rips your rod half out of your hand, you can get injured. lol. I had one bend my middle finger to the side in a weird way, trying to not lose my rod and now its swollen and sore!
Oh, and this is funny. My fishing buddy, brought one of his buddies along that hasn't striper fished much at all. He brought spinning rods along. We were joking with him about having to sit in the "penalty box" if he casts into the trees and such in the dark. Well the first time he hit the trees, he handed me his rod to get the lure out. It was dark you know and I felt something stabbing me in my palm. Turned my light on, this dude had a casting rod with a spinning reel on it! The trigger was sticking up and stabbing me in the hand. We laughed so hard at that one. What was worse was when I told him about it, he said he would just grind it down. HAHAHA !!! He had a good night with that rod though, he caught 9 stripers and a 6 pound green fish on that jacked up pole.
Oh and just saying, a green fish is not a bonus. That's minus points.
