Post by striperjohn on Oct 3, 2012 6:39:47 GMT -5
Finally got out late in the am 830 after fiasco at home was resolved. JFoggy as hell and raining in Farmville. Arrived at landing at 1030, rainy, cloudy, misty, perfect striper weather. Moved out by and island and set up looking up a creek and back into the channel. After looking long and hard with Binos for about and hour decided to go get bait.
Headed up into a creek and just around a point the fish were boiling right in front of me, turned the boat sideways and cut the motor. Caught two before they went down. Both in the 28 inch range. Came up again 50 yards away ran over there same success 2 more fish. This went on for about two hours and I had a blast. At one point I had fish running shad up onto a shallow bank and they were literally jumping into the mud and flopping back out. ;D
Those of you who think you must use trolling motor to chase fish should try this method. Been doing it for 40 plus years from Santee Cooper, to Cherokee, to Watts Bar, and SML. It works and you catch fish. Just saying.
First time out on the lake by myself in a few years, but decided at my age those times are going to be fewer and fewer so from now on I'm just going to go. Alone or not. Time to live life when you can. My dad used to say " going fishing is a blessing, if you happen to catch something, well that's just extra". I ran into Rockfish (God bless) in the back of Indian a few years ago and at one point I mentioned that to him. He said you're so right my friend, we got to take each day and live it like we own it.
Anyway on a lighter note, ended the day at 1500 with 12 fish caught and I'll bet there wasn't a pound difference in all of them. Every fish was 27-29 inches long. All fish caught on topwater lures I started making a couple years ago. What a blast!
If any of you guys ever want to go on the next predicted rainy day drop me a pm.
Oh yeah all fish released.
Cheers,
John
Headed up into a creek and just around a point the fish were boiling right in front of me, turned the boat sideways and cut the motor. Caught two before they went down. Both in the 28 inch range. Came up again 50 yards away ran over there same success 2 more fish. This went on for about two hours and I had a blast. At one point I had fish running shad up onto a shallow bank and they were literally jumping into the mud and flopping back out. ;D
Those of you who think you must use trolling motor to chase fish should try this method. Been doing it for 40 plus years from Santee Cooper, to Cherokee, to Watts Bar, and SML. It works and you catch fish. Just saying.
First time out on the lake by myself in a few years, but decided at my age those times are going to be fewer and fewer so from now on I'm just going to go. Alone or not. Time to live life when you can. My dad used to say " going fishing is a blessing, if you happen to catch something, well that's just extra". I ran into Rockfish (God bless) in the back of Indian a few years ago and at one point I mentioned that to him. He said you're so right my friend, we got to take each day and live it like we own it.
Anyway on a lighter note, ended the day at 1500 with 12 fish caught and I'll bet there wasn't a pound difference in all of them. Every fish was 27-29 inches long. All fish caught on topwater lures I started making a couple years ago. What a blast!
If any of you guys ever want to go on the next predicted rainy day drop me a pm.
Oh yeah all fish released.
Cheers,
John
