09-03-2002, 08:14 PM
So you finally got to see some of the "real" boils I told you I had experienced on Mead. You've been their several times now without much luck on the stripers. Mead owed you one and finally decided to pay up.
How big was the biggest boil you saw? I've seen them fifty yards across at least. What used to impress me even more than the width was the height of the boil. I've seen them several feet high with stripers, shad, and water flying in every direction.
Unlike Willard, Lake Mead is DEEP. Schools of stripers can rush schools of shad to the surface from depths much greater than that of Willard. By the time they reach the surface, the shad and the stripers are both MOVIN', and neither one slows down a bit. Fish hitting the surface will SLAM into other fish that have already hit the surface knocking them even further into the air. What a sight!
How big was the biggest boil you saw? I've seen them fifty yards across at least. What used to impress me even more than the width was the height of the boil. I've seen them several feet high with stripers, shad, and water flying in every direction.
Unlike Willard, Lake Mead is DEEP. Schools of stripers can rush schools of shad to the surface from depths much greater than that of Willard. By the time they reach the surface, the shad and the stripers are both MOVIN', and neither one slows down a bit. Fish hitting the surface will SLAM into other fish that have already hit the surface knocking them even further into the air. What a sight!