roanoke side 4/6/13

[tateman]

put in at the public ramp, caught bait really easy, headed up the river some to put out a spread. what a difference this week from the past few, they where ready to EAT!!! caught over 20 for the day ;D kids killed the battery on phone with net flix so we missed a bunch of pictures on some studs in the afternoon ran out of money makers and went bentrod style in the evening ;D, mongos on the line =studs!![img src="http://i1293.photobucket.com/albums/b600/tateman2i1293.photobucket.com/albums/b600/tateman2/kids%20fishing%204-6-13/fishing4-6-13016_zpsfe235911.jpg"]/kids%20fishing%204-6-13/fishing4-6-13015_zps64126057.jpg[/IMG]
thanks to every body here that's helped us learn to catch these fish, this fishery is amazing!!
andy

[Shadslinger]

Congrats man, sounds like a good day with the kids

[mwardncsu]

That's a GREAT day all around!

[BentRod]

Awesome! Great report with the kids! Glad you put out the Mongos! They'll crush em, won't they?!

[tateman]

yep, im hooked on the mongos pretty cool to see the board go down and pretty much bet that the fish is over ten pounds!! Evan caught a osprey dive-bombed first board and just about pulled the pole out of the holder before it pulled the bait from him, that wouldn't enough till he circled back and got the second one tangled in the line and a mess, thank god he came un tangled at the boat wouldn't sure how that was going to work ;D I have heard of people catching ol George but a osprey was the first for me.

[BentRod]

I've had the spreys get me a bunch of times. Happened with ole Mward the other night. One day I threw for bait for 3hrs (couple years back when bait was a pain), caught three shad and an osprey killed two while I was catching a fish on the other. I think I literally cried. If you yell Indian chants as they're about to dive on your bait, they'll stop..try it! Haha. I cut the line if I hook them. I can probably go to prison for that, but it wouldn't be fun to get clawed to death either.

[maintenanceman4lif]

Great report always fun with kids along.

[mwardncsu]

Yeah - Matt loved the whole Osprey thing that evening...... we had one that would not leave those baits alone....

[tateman]

couple more before the phone went dead,



mama try's to keep our daughter a girly girl... but she lost to the fish ;D not a bad problem to have wouldn't trade it for nothing!

[striperseeker]

Great report. Tell Mom that real guys prefers women that fish to those that do not. My wife fishes and I would not trade her for anything.

[mntneerfan]

Great report! Can't wait tell my twin grandsons are allowed to go with paw paw.

[mytoyzfishing]

Nice report. Ive caught a couple gulls down at the beach man what a pain, not sure how I would handle an osprey like Bentrod said No way I would dare bring that on my boat. Hey by the way what did you finally wind up doing to keep bait on the bass boat?

[tateman]

mytoyz,
put a venture in the live well but found that its not big enough to hold big bait for the hole trip? so I ended up putting a greyline tank in-between the console, wanted a supper 2 but the dimensions would not fit? kind of awkward but I have a couple options wen I really want to load up on bait for the tank at home.

[mytoyzfishing]

Which one did you find that fit? I keep going back and forth on my setup. Love the room of the pontton but hate the limited range both in speed and fuel. I hate that I have to pick and choose where I put in based on where I plan to fish which for me I dont always pick the best place.

[tateman]

I went with the 24 gallon oval, you can go the web page and get the dimensions, they have a bunch of different models. hindsight, I think you can have the supper custom made to fit? should have done more research. no complaints with the gray line though, it has a decent filter system, it has two rule 500 so it might pull on the battery a little harder.