mpwarrak
Senior Member
Had scheduled today to take my uncle Joe fishing. Hadn't been out lately so I went yesterday morning to find where the fish are.
I found LOADS of shad both times 4"-5" threadfins I think.... See picture, are they threads or gizzards?
Anyway I was getting 20 or so per cast! Was out before daylight both days with a light.
Finding fish to eat them was a little harder though.
Yesterday there was some limited topwater action, only caught one hybrid on a planer board, had another get off. I had to leave by about 8:00 though. Water temp was 86-87.
Today with the cold snap the topwater bite was dead. Water temps had cooled to 82-84. Tried a couple areas with only a 2 lb spot to show for it.
So we said, shoot, might as well drag the u-rig around while trying to find some fish on the Lowrance. We've tried the U-rig many times, seems like we've put miles on it, and it's never yet worked.
Put it on today 100 feet behind the boat and SLAM! My first u-rig fish and personal best Striper at 6 lbs! We dropped our last couple shad in that area and soon had a 4 lb. hybrid. All fish today around 20 feet down.
We finished up catching some bream, and took a nice ride in the boat past the 400 houseboats that were out there.... left before 11:00am.
Not much for numbers but size was great today for 'Toona!
By the way, the striper was RELEASED unharmed! I want to catch it again when it gets bigger! I can't say as much for the hybrid and spot... the 4th of July grill-out was calling....
I found LOADS of shad both times 4"-5" threadfins I think.... See picture, are they threads or gizzards?
Anyway I was getting 20 or so per cast! Was out before daylight both days with a light.
Finding fish to eat them was a little harder though.
Yesterday there was some limited topwater action, only caught one hybrid on a planer board, had another get off. I had to leave by about 8:00 though. Water temp was 86-87.
Today with the cold snap the topwater bite was dead. Water temps had cooled to 82-84. Tried a couple areas with only a 2 lb spot to show for it.
So we said, shoot, might as well drag the u-rig around while trying to find some fish on the Lowrance. We've tried the U-rig many times, seems like we've put miles on it, and it's never yet worked.
Put it on today 100 feet behind the boat and SLAM! My first u-rig fish and personal best Striper at 6 lbs! We dropped our last couple shad in that area and soon had a 4 lb. hybrid. All fish today around 20 feet down.
We finished up catching some bream, and took a nice ride in the boat past the 400 houseboats that were out there.... left before 11:00am.
Not much for numbers but size was great today for 'Toona!
By the way, the striper was RELEASED unharmed! I want to catch it again when it gets bigger! I can't say as much for the hybrid and spot... the 4th of July grill-out was calling....
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