6/6 - Friday nite something different

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I normally throw artifical but last nite tried sum new things. Put out several rods with jumbo minnows on them . Tried down rods,light lines and no weight . I also plugged the bank while I did this. I caught one on a flat line so switched all to flat lines. I lost another fish on flat line. By this time shad done started coming up and stripers soon followed so I put live bait rods up an concentrated on beating riprap. Caught 1 on a redfin , awesome top water hit right on a point. Lighting an thunder kept getting closer so I left the fish biting. Hate it when that happens. Slabseeker they do hit jumbo minows. I'm not really setup for live bait but proally will be investing in a good net an bait tank in near future.

[mwardncsu]

Nice report - doing something different is how you learn...... Good stuff!

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Thanks mward I learn a lot from the forum . Everybody does a great job of sharing good info . Keep it coming need all Tha help I can get.

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I remember considering buying my first net a year and a half ago. I was more of a spoon and topwater guy. I thought bait fishing was cheating!

Now I have 9 nets and a much thinner bank account.

All I'm saying is watch out. That first good hit keeps you coming back.

[mwardncsu]

Jun 6, 2015 20:36:51 GMT -5 Yam said:

I remember considering buying my first net a year and a half ago. I was more of a spoon and topwater guy. I thought bait fishing was cheating!

Now I have 9 nets and a much thinner bank account.

All I'm saying is watch out. That first good hit keeps you coming back.

Funny - I wrote this earlier today elsewhere, responding to someone looking to upgrade via bait caching game. Seems appropriate here

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You are on a dangerous path. You need to know now that you have opened a dangerous door. One filled with sleepless nights, sore shoulders and backs, a never ending supply of buckets from cast nets long ago shredded by submerged trees, stumps, discarded car parts, etc. You will eventually come to terms with the fact that a net is a "consumable" - like the salt that goes in the tank. You'll come to terms with the fact that the cost of a new net is on the order of a tank of gas to run the boat all over while you look for the right bait - and it's just part of the game we play. You will find shad scales sticking to all parts of your body, with skin starting to grow over the scales turning you into half-man / half-fish. You'll never really get that shad smell off your hands and your wife may or may not continually question if you truely are spending those late night hours "catching bait". You will not be able to cross any body of water without looking for shad flips and thinking if a given section holds mongo gizzards. You will find yourself spending more time throwing the net in search of the "perfect" bait for more hours than you actually fish - and you will rapidly find yourself OK with that fact - that the time spent chasing bait is in some weird way more rewarding than actually catching the fish.

If you choose to cross through this door you will never be the same man again. You will be something more. You will be one of us.....

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I'm hooked on stripers, wanna learn many techniques to catch them on sml or any other lake. I used to fish Tha rivers for stripers an big flatheads but I used a cheap 4' net. It is very time consuming catching bait an hard work. Need to bite the bullet an invest sum money. Wife don't wanna hear that.lol. Thanks for Tha warning fellas, I will have lots of questions.

[gonefishin12098]

That's awesome! I myself have been beat up on artificials lately and decide to grab some jumbo shiners and in invest in some planar boards. Put out for first time tonight with 4 boards and a free line deep off the back center and had 5 fish around 16-22 inches from 7-11:30! IOM a big fan of live bait now to say the least. Congrats on you excursion! FYI- new member here

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Jun 6, 2015 21:16:49 GMT -5 mwardncsu said:

Jun 6, 2015 20:36:51 GMT -5 Yam said:

I remember considering buying my first net a year and a half ago. I was more of a spoon and topwater guy. I thought bait fishing was cheating!

Now I have 9 nets and a much thinner bank account.

All I'm saying is watch out. That first good hit keeps you coming back.

Funny - I wrote this earlier today elsewhere, responding to someone looking to upgrade via bait caching game. Seems appropriate here

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You are on a dangerous path. You need to know now that you have opened a dangerous door. One filled with sleepless nights, sore shoulders and backs, a never ending supply of buckets from cast nets long ago shredded by submerged trees, stumps, discarded car parts, etc. You will eventually come to terms with the fact that a net is a "consumable" - like the salt that goes in the tank. You'll come to terms with the fact that the cost of a new net is on the order of a tank of gas to run the boat all over while you look for the right bait - and it's just part of the game we play. You will find shad scales sticking to all parts of your body, with skin starting to grow over the scales turning you into half-man / half-fish. You'll never really get that shad smell off your hands and your wife may or may not continually question if you truely are spending those late night hours "catching bait". You will not be able to cross any body of water without looking for shad flips and thinking if a given section holds mongo gizzards. You will find yourself spending more time throwing the net in search of the "perfect" bait for more hours than you actually fish - and you will rapidly find yourself OK with that fact - that the time spent chasing bait is in some weird way more rewarding than actually catching the fish.

If you choose to cross through this door you will never be the same man again. You will be something more. You will be one of us.....

Every sentence is spot on. MDylan.

The buckets...a layer of stink on the side. The lids with no bottoms..lost somewhere on the water. Containers for consumables ..not to be thrown out like a rusty crescent wrench or a high school love letter.

[drag4striper]

You know I had thought about the bait thang. But now I've gotten " SKEERED ". I would need a bigger boat for all the goodies that is needed.

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I'm not skeerd but my wallet is !! I'm looking forward to the new techniques especially planer boards. One question is it possible to run boards with jus regular foot controlled trolling moter? Thanks.

[mwardncsu]

Sure - that's just how you steer - though it helps to be able on control the motor while fighting a fish. With two folks doable - or it an electric cable pedal just bring it to the back of the boat - did that one time when my remote crapped out.

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Sounds good mward. Thinking about I pilot but will have to wait till tax time or work bunch of overtime.