Hello, name's Wil. New to the forums. I've been fishing for 6 years now. Got a boat few years back. All I been doing is dropping anchovies and hang some lights over the water at night. Now, I want to do some tel fishing... I got some DVDs, read a whole lot, and bought a few hundred bucks of everything people use to catch bass ( worms, jigs, spinners, etc) My only problem, where do I go?? It's nice to finally find a forum with people that fishes lake mead. I hope to learn good info from you guys and hope I can contribute as I embark on some real fishing this year.
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Welcome to the board!
You will find a wealth of information from everybody here. Most of the folks here target stripers in Lake Mead, but there are a few LMB guys out there as well...and a very few carp guys, like me.
When you're talking bass, especially stripers, here are the most common spots to hit first: Hemenway Harbor, Boulder Beach, Boulder Harbor, Hole 33, and Crawdad Cove. In the Overton arm, you're looking at Echo Bay and Stewart's point. "Most" people have the "most" success in these spots, and they will give you a good idea of what's going on out there...as long as the fish cooperate of course...
There's been some discussion about Echo Canyon for LMB, check out some of the other threads, there's lots of good stuff there too.
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thanks for the info! I'll be trying these places this weekend. Still shore fishing right now.... Need to bring boat for annual service. And my truck obviously needs some kind of extension for the rear differential valve since it somehow got water in there and costed me $1500 to get damaged seals repaird and gears flushed.
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Ouch! Well, all those places I mentioned can be fished from shore. It's a bit easier hunting bass from a boat, especially at Lake Mead, but people have been mentioning how the baitfish are getting closer to shore and coming shallow, which means the bass aren't far behind them.
Good luck this weekend! Let us know how it went!
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hello everyone names chris i'm also new to this forum. and kinda new to striper fishing, i'm from the pacific northwest, but have lived in las vegas before just moved back last summer. i've fished lake mead before (when it was full lol) but just now really getting serious about fishing lake mead. i am shorebound so my choices i know are limited. my first attempt on lake mead was somewhat successful i was fishing the shore at boulder harbor casting some old salmon jigs i caught 4 that where about 17 inches on a crippled herring i've been back 4 times since with no luck on stripers but got a 2.5lb largemouth bass and a carp (that was fun) and my wife got a channel cat.. but haven't hooked a striper. my question is... are there any other good shore fishing spots around anymore? most spots i've tried are really shallow and snaggy. any help would be greatly appreciated. thanx in advance ~chris
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Hi Chris. Lately, I've been fishing at 33hole. its near the Northern entrance to the lake. Once you turn into 33hole, I usually park at the left over look and hike down from the farthest patio cover thing. The spot I fish is like a 10' cliff to the water, and usually get decent bites from 6am - noon. Mostly catfishes lately, and some stripers. Buddy of mine caught a 5lb striper from there last week. I caught a turtle yesterday. We usually do carolina rig with a sliding weight on cut anchovies. Good luck.
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thanx for the info willy... we went out to boulder harbor again today i got skunked but my son and wife both got decent channel kittys using of all things... corn. my son also got 3 nice carp biggest being just shy of 8lbs and a dinky striper about 10 inches. then we got blown off the water by some nasty gusts.
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Hi Willy and syncityangler I like that spot over at 33 hole also. I havn't been over there in about a month but, I've done real well there. I usually fish closer to the cove right on the point. There's a nice little ledge there I was doing pretty good on but that whole area has been pretty good for me. Good place to net some shad too. Lately I've been fishing on the Gov't wash side looking for the bigger ones. Been catching some nice ones on the rockier shorelines. I'm using a carolina rig ,but I'm using two leaders instead of one. I saw KVD fishing this rig on the BPS website for schooling LMB. He fishes weightless but I just added a sliding sinker. It does tangle but I think its worth it. I've caught 2 at time a few times feels pretty good. Plus if you get bite you don't have to sit there wondering if he stole your bait cause you still have another one out there. Once they start boiling again going to be yanking them in two at a time.
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Shore fishing is very productive if you do it right. This will save you many years of wasted time, so pay attention. Large amounts of water have little or no fish.....why, because stiper swim, eat and spawn. The stiper are pretty much open water fish, structure does not play into the fishing plan. They follow food (shad) and eat. Find a location that has deep water that slopes up to shallow water in a short order. Look water that drop to 20-30 foot and then to 60ft. Government wash, crawdad cove and my favorite is kingman wash. Fish a carolina rig or a small jighead and a chunk of bait. Remember don't look for fish, chum and let them look for you. When they come keep feeding them. I fished from shore in the March striper club tournament and took 9th place and 2nd place in April (4.3# was my big fish).
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