3-29-17 All Day Trip

[shadpuller]

My daughter and I launched at daybreak from Penhook Boat Docks. After a little stubborn motor trouble, we were on our way. Checked Bull Run for bait with no luck. Received a tip on bait locations in Gills Creek. Caught a couple of good nets of bait that were too small. We pulled them on boards for 3 hours with no bites at all. Went back and concentrated on finding bigger bait and with a little luck we caught a couple nets of moneymakers. We pulled them on boards from 3:00 until 6:00. Had several hits and misses and she caught a 37 inches and a 34 inches. All were in less than 10 ft of water on rip rap banks and points with direct wind. Surface temp was 63.3 and the turbidity was in the 100NTU range. All in all, had a great father daughter day on the lake.

[bushwacker]

Nice job, nothing like sharing great memories with the kids. Glad the info ended up paying off.

[mwardncsu]

Citation for the daughter! Nice!

[kneedeep]

Pretty awesome Wednesday if you ask me.

[drag4striper]

Sweet! Two nice fish and a day with your daughter. Can't beat that.

[coheasion]

Man - that is awesome!!! Good work right there.

[shadpuller]

Thanks Everyone!! She is a real go getter. She has the Striper Fishing bug and has fallen in love with running planer boards. She even insisted on throwing the net some yesterday. She told me that if she learns now, she can catch bait for me when I am old. LOL She will be working on an internship all summer for her masters degree, so she wont get to fish as much as she would like. That is why we are trying to get as many trips in before she leaves. She wanted to send a big thank you to everyone on the board for all the info posted and especially the tips for yesterday. I appreciate them too for helping make some awesome memories with my daughter.

[seajay]

Great report ! Persistence paid off , quality time and some nice fish. Congrats and thanks for sharing.

[jt]

Thanks for the post I wish my daughter liked to fish