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5-4 Sunrise stripers
Posted by: | CommentsThe action was great while it lasted. Mike and I were on the water for 5. As soon as we pulled up to our spot we could see herring dimplng the surface. Every once in a while a bass would swirl on one. I think it took all of 2 casts for us to hook up. Mike was throwing a Storm Chug Bug and I was chucking the 9″ Revo Shad. The water was up to 60 today and the hits were explosive, there is nothing like the sound of a good sized striper on the surface inhaling a plug…
My biggest of the day came just before sunrise, it was a wicked hit 10 feet from the boat. No warning boil, just an explosion 10 feet from the boat.
Mike had a surprise pike in an area with a ton of current. She must have come out from the flats to chase the herring. When the fish hit, we thought for sure it was a nice striper. Gotta say, we were a bit disappointed to see that it was a pike.
We moved around a lot and had several more fish, every one of them were keepers this morning. Once the sun got bright it was over… I think we had 2 more hits after 7:30. We rode up and down the river for a couple more hours looking in our normal spots but that was it. Great day on the water…
April 30 Keepers in a crowd
Posted by: | CommentsWord is out that there are decent fish in the river. That, combined with nice weather motivated a whole bunch of guys to roll out of be early and join in on the fun that up until now we had had to ourselves. Incredibly strong winds and cold ovenight temps have kept me off the water for a couple of days. Water temps had dropped almost 3 degrees, not a bad development in the big picture.
Mike and I struggled for the first hour of the trip, the fish weren’t in the same places we had left them earlier in the week. We made some adjustments and fished a bit deeper in 8-15 feet of water. That move paid off quickly and often. Mike hooked up the first keeper on a fast sinking version of the Revoltion shad.
The fish were not real agressive today, we had lots of hits but they weren’t the usual crushing, violent hits. I don’t know if it was the combination of bright sun, cooler water temps or boat traffic but we really had to slow down today. We ended up heading way north away from the crowds, we ran almost 15 miles to a spot that we had to ourselves and repeated the same pattern, low and slow. We had the same results. lots of hits and few hook ups with some decent fish in the mix. I had to be at work by 10 so we packed it in early, lots of new striper lures to price and hang!
4-21-10 Still no keepers
Posted by: | CommentsWell, no one can say that I’m not putting my time in… I launched at 5 AM in Rocky Hill with Josh. We fished all the usual spots with the same results. Clean water at 50 degrees and herring at every stop. We threw Houdini’s Revolution Shads and Bass Harassers and covered depths from 3 to 12 feet without a sniff. We finally caved in around 7 and switched over to pike. I think we boated 5 and had many more hits. Here is the big one from this morning. She hit a 7″ Revolution Shad.
