Lake Mead Wednesday Evening

[BaySport]

Wednesday, 06/13/07- Hit the water at about 4:00pm. Nice calm water! Discovered stripers in a small cove near Hole 33, started chasing them with the electric motor while tossing topwater lures.

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We managed to put three nice stripers in the box.

Soon all surface action stopped. Anchored in the channel, chummed a ton, and began soaking cut bait. Started feeding really small stripers right away. Oh well, might as well join them, so I enjoyed a cold hamburger, as I watched the tip of my pole jump up and down. It was really not that bad.

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An univited guest joins us for dinner. Mr.Catfish was promptly toss back.

Enough of this nonsense! Up anchor and head to Las Vegas Wash..... we were the only boat around to see the stripers surface and feed, and we were the only boat around to toss lures into the mix of stripers and shad.


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Stripers on deck after the excitement near Las Vegas Wash!


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What an AWESOME sunset we enjoyed before the nice ride back to the marina. Off the water by 9:15pm. What a great evening of boating and fishing.
BaySport
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[TheWhizzle]

Great report, great pics! So the stripers are starting to boil, huh? I almost went out after work lastnight, but i didnt make it to my house to get ready until a quarter after 2 AM. These late nights make it hard to get out. im glad you had some success.
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[stripercraze]

I am glad to see that the top water action is working! Great pictures. It is so cool when you have the whole area to yourself. I need to get out myself after work that seems to be the ticket.

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[BaySport]

Thanks, yes, I've fished stripers feeding on the surface, the last two evenings that I've been out on Lake Mead. On both evenings the water was smooth as glass. The last morning spent at the Lake was rough and windy and no surface activity was observed.

I'm not sure if I'd call them boils. More like slurps. A school of stripers will surface in a rolling action, after small shad. These slurps don't last long and are hard to keep up with. Wednesday evening, after finding fish, I would stay with them using the electric motor until they would dive. Then it would become a waiting game. Sometimes the stripers resurface close enough to the boat to continue pursuit with the electric motor, other times far enough away, requiring the use of the outboard to catch up with them. If lucky, the stripers would stay on the surface, driving their prey all the way across a cove to the shoreline, allowing several casts into them....sorry I'm rambling. Anyway, I'm hoping that as the shad grow in size, so will the boils that we all love. You know, stripers slapping the surface hard, ripping it up, striking at about anything thrown at them. Amen.
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[Mead_Stripers]

Hey BaySport,

I think I have that exact topwater popper. And believe it or not, I have only caught one striper off it. Nothing beats my chovy cast system but I have to admit it was pretty dramatic when I caught a striper off the popper. I was giving it left to right action right on the surface of the water, and then you see a striper jump up and go right after it. It was like what you see on all those bass shows. Anyway, it was fun using the popper but unfortunately, you just don't have as much luck as you do with a nice cut anchovy.

Btw, sorry to see the cat crashed your party. I hate when that happens. Because at first, you think you've hooked a monster, then as you're reeling it in, you realize it's just a heavy cat with no fight. Kind of like those razorbacks I mentioned in previous posts.

Best regards,

Paul
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