April 30 Keepers in a crowd

Word 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!