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Well, with the recent weather and today forecast, had high hopes for today but got shut-out skunked.

Set up on the point closest to the harbor around 1pm. Being that this was my first outing of spring I took a whole bunch of gear out with me, as I do each year, before widdling down to the essentials. I was fishing for everything today. Had two new home made carp baits on hair rigs, fished for striper with worms, bait fish, and Storm shad swim baits, and some topwaters. Even went poking for catfish with garlic shrimp and into the reeds for LMB with a mini torp. Not a thing all day. One gentleman across the water from me appeared to have similar luck. The jury is still out on the carp baits as I didn't even so much as see a carp today. I'll keep trying them and see if the fish like them as much as I think they will. Hoping that it was simply the afternoon doldrums that kept the bites away today, as I'll be out looking for fish again at sunrise tomorrow. Considering going back to hemmenway, or perhaps making the drive out to Overton. A report will follow.

I've been assuming cut bait and swim baits are the go-to at this time of year, but these are not my native waters. I'm a saltwater striper fisherman still trying to figure out how the freshies roll.....
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My buddy and I were out at Hemenway that day as well fishing from the pier. We got skunked too. Fished from around 2:30pm to about 8pm. My buddy and I were throwing out cut anchovies on 2 rods and a swimbait on the other 2 rods. Nothing on the swimbaits. The only bites we got on the anchovies were the ducks that dove down and stole our bait. I ended up accidentally hooking a duck by its wing. I cut the line and it was fine. Hopefully this weekend I'll have better luck and pop the cherry on the new combo I got.
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I'm a saltwater striper fisherman still trying to figure out how the freshies roll.....[/quote]

i had that same state of mind i was in the first time i really fished lake mead but for me i had a ton of salmon jigs cause i had just moved down from seattle, so i said the hell with it and tossed them around and ended up with 4 stripers in about 2 hours tossing 2 oz crippled herrings from shore and fishing them the same way i would fish salmon. so don't be affraid to experiment even if its way out of the ordinary, thats how we learn. fish on!![fishin]
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