12/28

[jmr04]

Got over to the lake Sunday about noon. Spent the afternoon catching bait (5 hours). Probably put together the best tank so far (not saying much). Had one mongo 5 or 6 8"-10" shad a few blue backs a tank full of large peanuts and a few huge ales I picked up on my light last night and this morning. Fished 4 pb a light line and a 1oz down. Got a fish as I put out the first pb. Continued to pull and picked up three more all at once. Pretty crazy all by yourself. Lost a big fish that hit one of my larger shad due to a bad knot. Missed another as I put that board back. Missed another a few minutes later. Picked up another on the light line. By that time the weather had turned on me. Windy rainy and temp dropped about 10 degrees. Called it a morning after 3 hours hoping it would get better in the afternoon. No such luck. Hopefully better weather tomorrow. Fish were all in the low 20s. Most disappointing thing about the day was I lost the Mongo and have no idea how. Thought it may have been hit when I was dealing with three fish at once but the board wasn't even popped out of the clip.

[drag4striper]

To me the hardest part of fishing for stripers is putting together good bait and not getting another hole in my net in the process.

Ps. the biguns usually get away. Hey, but that keeps us going back. 

[coheasion]

Nice report jmr! I hope to be up there this weekend.

[striperjohn]

A lot of times if the fish (especially the bigger ones) get your bait going forward you will never see your planer move at all except perhaps to run a little quicker away from the boat due to lack of weight provided by the bait. Being an old green fisherman (still do in Canada a lot) I've learned to keep and eye on my line. In your case being alone and getting hits that's difficult to do. You didn't mention what type hooks you had, but I've learned that circles will catch those fish a great deal of the time just due to the nature of their design, whereas J hooks have to be set. All in all though it sounds like a good day. Heck I've had days when I didn't get a bite, I mean not even a damned white perch.