06-09-2008, 02:57 AM
Friday,06/06/08-Here's the problem: with the high price of fuel it seems like it costs twice as much to fish a half day on Lake Mead. The solution seems to be to spend more time on the water per fishing trip to reduce the cost per hour. Anyway, that's what I told my wife before my pard, Don, and I headed to the lake for an overnght fishing trip.
Hit the water about 4pm. and it was a wet and wild ride to the fishing grounds. Searched everywhere for shad with no success. No matter, we packed plenty of frozen shad and anchovys. Anchored near the green bouy, chummed a ton and started putting small stripers in the box right away. The strong wind made the boat dance up and down and sway side to side. When darkness arrived, we dropped the underwater lights and continued to load the box with little stripers. We were the only boat on the water that night. About midnight we packed up and headed to the cove with the floating outhouse, dropped anchor and hit the rack. Four hours later we were up and searching for shad on water that was glass.
Bingo! Filled the livewells with 4" shad and headed back to the same area as the night before. Anchored as the wind came up, and stared putting live shad to work. Action was steady for 3 pounders until about 9:30am. Pulled anchor and gave remaining shad to another angler and his son. Off the water by 10:30am. Ended up with an ice chest full of small stripers, and another ice chest about half full of 3 pounders. What a great trip!
Can there be life with high fuel costs? Sorry, no pictures.
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Hit the water about 4pm. and it was a wet and wild ride to the fishing grounds. Searched everywhere for shad with no success. No matter, we packed plenty of frozen shad and anchovys. Anchored near the green bouy, chummed a ton and started putting small stripers in the box right away. The strong wind made the boat dance up and down and sway side to side. When darkness arrived, we dropped the underwater lights and continued to load the box with little stripers. We were the only boat on the water that night. About midnight we packed up and headed to the cove with the floating outhouse, dropped anchor and hit the rack. Four hours later we were up and searching for shad on water that was glass.
Bingo! Filled the livewells with 4" shad and headed back to the same area as the night before. Anchored as the wind came up, and stared putting live shad to work. Action was steady for 3 pounders until about 9:30am. Pulled anchor and gave remaining shad to another angler and his son. Off the water by 10:30am. Ended up with an ice chest full of small stripers, and another ice chest about half full of 3 pounders. What a great trip!
Can there be life with high fuel costs? Sorry, no pictures.
BaySport
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] It also provides a food source that we use. And my cat goes crazy for raw stripers also. I just plan my trips now go and get shad and anchor up and bait fish. Too bad we can not recycle the fish waste into fuel to power our boat engines. I also go out at night now. I make it an all nighter to make the most of my time on the water. It is more peaceful at night anyway.
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