lund1
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Post by lund1 on Feb 22, 2013 9:38:36 GMT -5
took advantage of yesterdays weather....beautiful on the water. Caught 2 around the cliffs, both on pearl flukes jigged slow.....never found a good school though. All singles, etc....Gulls were all over the place but not working baitfish.
Right now I have a tank full of the biggest alewives I have ever seen...2 throws under the dock light last night and I had more then my tank can handle....I didn't realize alewives got to 7-8 ''!!.... but fishing on a cold rainy day just doesn't sound that great......
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Post by mwardncsu on Feb 22, 2013 19:53:04 GMT -5
Don't you love those Mac-Daddy Ales? Striper Candy!
Having to live through the reports for a few weeks - keep them coming!
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Post by Shadslinger on Feb 22, 2013 20:34:23 GMT -5
Im gonna need the location of your dock..... ;D
Dont happen to know the bait situation at magnum under the lights do ya?
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Post by catsnstripers on Feb 24, 2013 0:16:44 GMT -5
i'll take a cold rainy day for stripers over a pretty warm bluebird day.... anyday
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Post by wishforfish on Feb 24, 2013 7:46:01 GMT -5
Amen! My best day on the water to date was in February on a 36 degree day and I couldn't keep the rain out of my guidewear it was so wet. Even my dinky bimini top didn't keep me dry.
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Post by lund1 on Feb 24, 2013 19:52:51 GMT -5
well i dragged those big alewives all over Staniford, B28 - 34, even poked into the Watts campground cove....nary a nibble. Lot's of nervous bait, but that's probably got something to do with the fact that they were so damn big...they made my boat poles jumpy as hell.
I scouted all over looking for "bird action"...and finally had to admit to myself I don't really know what i'm looking for. There are sea gulls all over....flying and dipping and sitting and floating.....good Lord...if I kept chasing them around I could still be there...but I sure didn't see breaking fish...and I sure didn't mark them on the lowrance....so..............anybody care to give a tutorial on what the heck " finding the sea gulls" really means?....what are you looking for?...an actual feeding blitz with gulls htting the surface?...and ignore everything else? I was so ready for winter jigging after spending a few days on the water last winter with Todd....learning the hard way that the hard part is finding the fish...not catching them once you do....
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Post by juiceman on Feb 26, 2013 16:45:38 GMT -5
Hey lund1, I hear ya I used to just fish around the birds exclusively and you'll quickly find that they a a good "general" locater for the stripers. I live across from B28 and have had tons of birds right in front of the house for a few weeks now but been catching the stripers a quarter mile down the lake. Unless they are on blitzing bait or I read a big school of stripers under them I assume that the stripers are "roughly" in that quarter mile sometimes half mile stretch of lake where the birds are. Many times I've catching a bunch of stripers and only picking up a few on the finder. Seems like the a good method is still to cover a good area of water with as many good presentations and not completely depending on the birds. Good luck out there!
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