10-14-2006, 10:27 PM
After a long hard thought, (approximately 10 mins)...Wildcard, Red Cat, Debo (the newest member H&J Fishing), and I, decide to embark on another thrill filled night at Powell. Weather was great for about 4 hours. Red Cat and I had decided to fish the Marina, not the covered slips, and were asked to leave the marina as we had arrived. "No fishing", didn’t know that, thought you could fish it in the late evenings. After about 30 mins of looking around, we decided to fish the shallow areas around the marina and executive docks.
Fish were hitting at almost everything we'd cast out. Wildcard, being the frantic fisherman immediately threw his favorite crank bait and landed a great 8lb fighter. We followed right behind, all pulling in anywhere from 4lb - 10lb stripers. In short these fish are ferocious when they feed. From surface bait to jigs to bottom spoons, everything I had in my backpack was working. After about an hour of exercising our casting arms, we pulled in about 50 or so stripers and a few Crappies. The evening ended early with the rain moving in fast cutting our time down to 3.5 hours. Our final count was 213 stripers caught. We decided to head back home early. What a trip! The picture below is when Debo and I went to cleaning station with the first 2 coolers...got tired and didn't want to lay them all out. The lineup is Wildcard from the left, Red Cat, and Debo.
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Fish were hitting at almost everything we'd cast out. Wildcard, being the frantic fisherman immediately threw his favorite crank bait and landed a great 8lb fighter. We followed right behind, all pulling in anywhere from 4lb - 10lb stripers. In short these fish are ferocious when they feed. From surface bait to jigs to bottom spoons, everything I had in my backpack was working. After about an hour of exercising our casting arms, we pulled in about 50 or so stripers and a few Crappies. The evening ended early with the rain moving in fast cutting our time down to 3.5 hours. Our final count was 213 stripers caught. We decided to head back home early. What a trip! The picture below is when Debo and I went to cleaning station with the first 2 coolers...got tired and didn't want to lay them all out. The lineup is Wildcard from the left, Red Cat, and Debo.
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