brianj
Senior Member
After reading First Bite's report yesterday afternoon, I was really excited about getting out and doing a night fishing. So got out on the water around 7pm, just as the sun was about down and needed to find some bait. Luckily, the warm weather made my job a little easier than I expected. Two stops and about 45 minutes later I had some good looking shad to go along with the left over trout i used this past weekend.
Well catching the bait was about as good as it got for me... I fished points, coves, channels, creeks, bartow, galts, kellogg and couldnt find the fish. I had planned to call it a night around 10pm, but since I hadt caught anything by then decided to stay longer - I always feel like I'm just minutes from running across that big school of fish waiting to clean out my bait tank. Unfortunely that didn't happen last night
While I pretty much got skunked by the hybrids/stripers, around 10:30 I did manage to land one fat crappie. He hit a planer board with a 6 inch shad on it. Wasn't much of a fight considering i was pulling him in on a striper pole, but was excited when I saw how big he was - 1.89lbs. Couldn't get a good picture because my phone battery was too low for the flash to work so I tried to use the flash light as the flash. Hard to tell how big he is, but for reference, the orange background is a 5 gallon bucket lid.
I'll be back out in the water next weekend; hope things are better for me then.
BTW if anyone is fishing allatoona today, tomorrow or sat and want some left over small trout, shoot me a pm. I have a bunch of small ones in my bait tank, but dont think they wil last while I'm out of town.
Well catching the bait was about as good as it got for me... I fished points, coves, channels, creeks, bartow, galts, kellogg and couldnt find the fish. I had planned to call it a night around 10pm, but since I hadt caught anything by then decided to stay longer - I always feel like I'm just minutes from running across that big school of fish waiting to clean out my bait tank. Unfortunely that didn't happen last night
While I pretty much got skunked by the hybrids/stripers, around 10:30 I did manage to land one fat crappie. He hit a planer board with a 6 inch shad on it. Wasn't much of a fight considering i was pulling him in on a striper pole, but was excited when I saw how big he was - 1.89lbs. Couldn't get a good picture because my phone battery was too low for the flash to work so I tried to use the flash light as the flash. Hard to tell how big he is, but for reference, the orange background is a 5 gallon bucket lid.
I'll be back out in the water next weekend; hope things are better for me then.
BTW if anyone is fishing allatoona today, tomorrow or sat and want some left over small trout, shoot me a pm. I have a bunch of small ones in my bait tank, but dont think they wil last while I'm out of town.
