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Post by herringbone on Oct 9, 2021 8:36:34 GMT -5
I’m planning to hit Claytor in the morning. Hoping to catch bait before sunrise and pull some boards. I’ve made (4) new boards, done some work on bait tank, so it’ll be a day getting the net arm ready and making sure all is good with the new boards and boat for upcoming trips. I’ll post any results.
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Post by cmstower on Oct 9, 2021 16:04:41 GMT -5
Nice hb a buddy of mine fished up there a lot but I have never been up there!
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Post by herringbone on Oct 9, 2021 18:29:41 GMT -5
Nice hb a buddy of mine fished up there a lot but I have never been up there! Lol, was hoping you had some intel for me. I’ll post back tmrs trip good or bad. |
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Post by cmstower on Oct 9, 2021 19:09:59 GMT -5
I hear ya come on to smith and you know where to go!
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Post by herringbone on Oct 9, 2021 19:25:39 GMT -5
Big time driving distance time. I would, trust me, if it was doable.
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Post by herringbone on Oct 9, 2021 19:26:17 GMT -5
I’ll be there come early December for 4 days.
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Post by herringbone on Oct 10, 2021 13:45:11 GMT -5
All in all a successful trip even though I left with the skunk in the boat. Struggled finding enough bait to throw on, so started fishing with only (5) good baits. First rod out on a new planer (ran great) with a 5” herring, bottomed out before I could even get a bait on the second rod, still had line letting out on that rod too. Got my hands on it, pulling drag hard, broke my line. Not sure if something rubbed on the board the wrong way. Ok, while trying to get situated, looked at the screen to see it loaded with bait from 40-50 fow on the bottom. One throw with the taped net, about (200) 5” herring. Finally got good bait, pulled for quite a bit and lost another (6) fish. I think most of them were small spotted bass, and got a nice lg mouth up to the boat and he came off. Oh well, got the boards figured out, might tweak a little, got pumps figured out in my bait tank, boat ran great.
WT: 72
WC: Very clean, but saw muddy water in the New River coming home at the Shot Tower.
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Post by cmstower on Oct 10, 2021 14:32:46 GMT -5
Still nice to get out on the water and a plus to get everything figured out!
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Post by herringbone on Oct 10, 2021 15:25:45 GMT -5
Beautiful morning, getting me excited about the fall and early winter. The ol net arm was throwing some pancakes today, lol, felt good.
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Post by choochoo on Oct 10, 2021 15:37:12 GMT -5
Not bad. There’s only like 15-20 fish in Claytor and you tangled with half of them. There’s a reason footlong gizzards live in Claytor, nothing to eats them.
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Post by herringbone on Oct 10, 2021 16:06:51 GMT -5
I had a few 10-12”ers in the tank until I hit the herring load.
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