Post by ikMOON on Oct 27, 2017 20:40:15 GMT -5
Weather: Mostly sunny, High 30s to mid 60s, light wind.
Water: Temp ??? Didn't have my FF. Brown stain from runoff down a little from Bay Roc, after the color break 2 feet or so clarity.
Method: Gizzard and Ales, peanuts to dollar bills, free lined on planers, all on the bank side. The Ales got all the action.
Hours fished: 9:30-3:00
Early this year a man asked me if I was interested in a small fishing boat. He said that he wanted to give it away if the new owner would take his kids fishing in it. I told him he had a deal! I wouldn't see the boat until me and two of my boys went to pick it up. We found it to be in great shape. It was a 9' Bass Hound with a trailer and a 50lb Minn Kota. My boys were ecstatic when I told them it was all theirs. I made them a promise that I'd take them striper fishing in the fall. We did get a chance in the spring to put it in the water at Mayo, so they could get acquainted with it, but that was a busy summer ago.
Putting in at the ramp this morning would have been funny to watch. How hard can it be to put a 9 and a half foot plastic dingy in the water? I found out quickly that I can't see the tiny thing over my tailgate. When I finally did get it backed into the water my first mate had some trouble with the dock rope and kinda sorta got it wound around one of the trailer tires. Getting it sorted out I got water in over my muck boots, and got temporarily aggravated, if you know what I mean...
Soon the three of us were on the water and in search of bait. The goal for the day was simple: I have two boys, so I need two fish. We got a variety of Ales and Gizzards up to dollar bill size without too much trouble, and turns out the built-in live well worked good enough, with a little salt, to keep the bait alive all day.
I decided to work the bank side only and started pulling around 9:30. There were plenty signs of life, fish swirling the bait clusters here and there, but not so much interest in the ones behind my boards. The boys got a kick out of seeing the resident bald eagle
After about an hour of pulling the same general area we hooked up on the furthest board out on an Ale. It ran toward the channel and my middle boy got him to the net no problem! Look at that face in the back, we need at least one more.
Over lunch we pulled in everything and moved to another spot with the intention of pulling our way back home with the wind to our back. In the last hour of the trip and after one unbuttoned fish, it was mission accomplished!
Getting the boat out of the water was much easier than putting it in, aside from a group of real American geniuses who left their truck and trailer on the ramp while they played around out in the channel for a half hour.
We had a blast. The time with my boys was priceless. All the action (though it was a slow day) was right on the bank and with medium Ales.
We finished the day off at Bojangles before heading back to Ringgold.
Water: Temp ??? Didn't have my FF. Brown stain from runoff down a little from Bay Roc, after the color break 2 feet or so clarity.
Method: Gizzard and Ales, peanuts to dollar bills, free lined on planers, all on the bank side. The Ales got all the action.
Hours fished: 9:30-3:00
Early this year a man asked me if I was interested in a small fishing boat. He said that he wanted to give it away if the new owner would take his kids fishing in it. I told him he had a deal! I wouldn't see the boat until me and two of my boys went to pick it up. We found it to be in great shape. It was a 9' Bass Hound with a trailer and a 50lb Minn Kota. My boys were ecstatic when I told them it was all theirs. I made them a promise that I'd take them striper fishing in the fall. We did get a chance in the spring to put it in the water at Mayo, so they could get acquainted with it, but that was a busy summer ago.
Putting in at the ramp this morning would have been funny to watch. How hard can it be to put a 9 and a half foot plastic dingy in the water? I found out quickly that I can't see the tiny thing over my tailgate. When I finally did get it backed into the water my first mate had some trouble with the dock rope and kinda sorta got it wound around one of the trailer tires. Getting it sorted out I got water in over my muck boots, and got temporarily aggravated, if you know what I mean...
Soon the three of us were on the water and in search of bait. The goal for the day was simple: I have two boys, so I need two fish. We got a variety of Ales and Gizzards up to dollar bill size without too much trouble, and turns out the built-in live well worked good enough, with a little salt, to keep the bait alive all day.
I decided to work the bank side only and started pulling around 9:30. There were plenty signs of life, fish swirling the bait clusters here and there, but not so much interest in the ones behind my boards. The boys got a kick out of seeing the resident bald eagle
After about an hour of pulling the same general area we hooked up on the furthest board out on an Ale. It ran toward the channel and my middle boy got him to the net no problem! Look at that face in the back, we need at least one more.
Over lunch we pulled in everything and moved to another spot with the intention of pulling our way back home with the wind to our back. In the last hour of the trip and after one unbuttoned fish, it was mission accomplished!
Getting the boat out of the water was much easier than putting it in, aside from a group of real American geniuses who left their truck and trailer on the ramp while they played around out in the channel for a half hour.
We had a blast. The time with my boys was priceless. All the action (though it was a slow day) was right on the bank and with medium Ales.
We finished the day off at Bojangles before heading back to Ringgold.
