06-15-2010, 03:07 AM
This is my third time fishing there, after being skunked my first two times lol. I arrived there around 10pm, after having to wait at the walmart on 215 and rainbow for half and hour trying to get some service at the sporting goods desk. My girlfriend and friend needed Colorado river stamps and we also needed anchovies/sardines. After waiting half an hour we learn that the system is down and the night shift worker did not know of any anchovies and sardines, we finally set off for the lake. The weather was really wild when i arrived, The waves were pretty big and the wind was blowing pretty hard. We had led headlamps, but its so dark out there you can only see about ten feet infront of you. We met up with my friends that arrived half an hour before us.
I landed 3 cats on shrimp my first two hours and continued fishing with shrimp until about 2 am without any luck. Getting no bites and no stripers i decided to use the few sardines i had and landed three nice sized stripers and another catfish all within an hour. From 4:30am-7am i had a few bites but was unable to hookem. Fishing also slowed for me because my friends started to steal my sardines when they realized i was catching fish using them and by 4:30am they were all gone lol. In the end i had 7 fish, my coworker had 5 fish, and my buddy had 1. Pretty bad night considering the people we ran into while we arrived left with 30 stripers. The take home lesson? Don't believe your impatient friend that using just shrimp will be okay. I usually bring both and see what they are biting on that day.
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I landed 3 cats on shrimp my first two hours and continued fishing with shrimp until about 2 am without any luck. Getting no bites and no stripers i decided to use the few sardines i had and landed three nice sized stripers and another catfish all within an hour. From 4:30am-7am i had a few bites but was unable to hookem. Fishing also slowed for me because my friends started to steal my sardines when they realized i was catching fish using them and by 4:30am they were all gone lol. In the end i had 7 fish, my coworker had 5 fish, and my buddy had 1. Pretty bad night considering the people we ran into while we arrived left with 30 stripers. The take home lesson? Don't believe your impatient friend that using just shrimp will be okay. I usually bring both and see what they are biting on that day.
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