09-14-2003, 05:35 AM
What a great day we had today! Here's how it went:
Saturday, 09/13-Fished pm, on the water at 4:00. Thought we would head over to Swallow Cove and see what we could scratch up. We saw nothing on our way through Las Vegas Bay. Not so much as a splash on the water. As we rounded Black Island we noticed some heavy bird action in a small cove to our left. You know, lots of gulls and terns (or whatever kind of birds they are) diving in the water. We moved in quick. JACKPOT! the entire cove was filled with stripers and we were the only boat around. We fished the cove and surrounding points for over two hours. A boil would surface and we would fish until it would end at the shoreline, then we would wait for the next boil and do it again. When all the action seemed to have stopped for the day we counted our fish. We were very pleased that our catch totaled 38! Most of the stripers were in the two pound range, all very fat and healthy.On the way back to the dock we ran into a large boil near the mid-channel bouy outside of Gov't Wash (along with about 20 other boats) and caught our last two fish! Both about three pounds, the biggest of the day. WOW!, our first limit of the season.
Every fish was caught on a Storm 4" wild eyed shad. When the boil would end we would retie or replace the lure (Stripers nip the tails right off sometimes). My partner,Don, uses a heavy spinning outfit that cranks stripers in fast, I used a light spinning rig today and had a blast. Most of the anglers I talked to at the dock were successful today. I can't wait until tomorrow. I hope it goes wild again!
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Saturday, 09/13-Fished pm, on the water at 4:00. Thought we would head over to Swallow Cove and see what we could scratch up. We saw nothing on our way through Las Vegas Bay. Not so much as a splash on the water. As we rounded Black Island we noticed some heavy bird action in a small cove to our left. You know, lots of gulls and terns (or whatever kind of birds they are) diving in the water. We moved in quick. JACKPOT! the entire cove was filled with stripers and we were the only boat around. We fished the cove and surrounding points for over two hours. A boil would surface and we would fish until it would end at the shoreline, then we would wait for the next boil and do it again. When all the action seemed to have stopped for the day we counted our fish. We were very pleased that our catch totaled 38! Most of the stripers were in the two pound range, all very fat and healthy.On the way back to the dock we ran into a large boil near the mid-channel bouy outside of Gov't Wash (along with about 20 other boats) and caught our last two fish! Both about three pounds, the biggest of the day. WOW!, our first limit of the season.
Every fish was caught on a Storm 4" wild eyed shad. When the boil would end we would retie or replace the lure (Stripers nip the tails right off sometimes). My partner,Don, uses a heavy spinning outfit that cranks stripers in fast, I used a light spinning rig today and had a blast. Most of the anglers I talked to at the dock were successful today. I can't wait until tomorrow. I hope it goes wild again!
BaySport
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