09-19-2011, 07:04 AM
Spent the Weekend with friends on their 32 foot cabin cruiser, fun time, not exactly a fishing boat. Parked up Knowells Canyon near the end. Early each morning for a couple of hours I would shore fish around the cove area.
Kept seeing large Striper type splashes, when the water was calm, but only single fish and no little fishes jumping. I got to a nice pool area and a mini boil appeared right in front of me, it looked like two or maybe three Stripers and possibly several small bass 2 to 3 inch size jumping for their lives.
I was throwing a spinner jig, white. I hooked up, hit it hard, and the Striper did the run peeling of 6 lb line at will, got it to stop before the second run for the bushes. Fatal mistake, tightened the drag, bing! Easy broke the line. Did get a small mouth out of the first boil, probably a opportunistic by stander.
The next day I targeted the single Stiper type splashes, and hooked up again, same style of run, hit, more long line peeling runs. Did not touch the drag, and old dogs can learn new tricks, landed a 24 inch Striper, my first ever. It was on a white curly tail jig 4 - 5 inch with 1/2 white head, played moderately slow.
Caught a couple of small mouths also.
Most people down there were zip that I talked to. Saw plenty of shad fry back in the bays. The one Striper had a 2 inch shad and the small mouths also.
I was limited to walking shore line and a couple of hours before breakfast, still a real hoot.
The real funny thing was we were catching catfish at will on HOT DOGS, yes Oscar Myer. really, they preferred it over shrimp and worms.
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Kept seeing large Striper type splashes, when the water was calm, but only single fish and no little fishes jumping. I got to a nice pool area and a mini boil appeared right in front of me, it looked like two or maybe three Stripers and possibly several small bass 2 to 3 inch size jumping for their lives.
I was throwing a spinner jig, white. I hooked up, hit it hard, and the Striper did the run peeling of 6 lb line at will, got it to stop before the second run for the bushes. Fatal mistake, tightened the drag, bing! Easy broke the line. Did get a small mouth out of the first boil, probably a opportunistic by stander.
The next day I targeted the single Stiper type splashes, and hooked up again, same style of run, hit, more long line peeling runs. Did not touch the drag, and old dogs can learn new tricks, landed a 24 inch Striper, my first ever. It was on a white curly tail jig 4 - 5 inch with 1/2 white head, played moderately slow.
Caught a couple of small mouths also.
Most people down there were zip that I talked to. Saw plenty of shad fry back in the bays. The one Striper had a 2 inch shad and the small mouths also.
I was limited to walking shore line and a couple of hours before breakfast, still a real hoot.
The real funny thing was we were catching catfish at will on HOT DOGS, yes Oscar Myer. really, they preferred it over shrimp and worms.
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