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[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 3]Just got back from Las Vegas and enjoyed spending time with family and checking out what Vegas has to offer. Fished Lake Mead every morning and caught stripers on the boils. You think Willard can get hectic on boils you should fish Lake Mead. The best fresh water combat fishing this side of the Mississippi. Here's a link to the report on southernman's Nevada Board:[/size][/font] [center][url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/cgi-bin/gforum/gforum.cgi?post=64334;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;forum_view=forum_view_collapsed;;page=unread#unread"][size 1]Lake Mead Fishing Report [/size][/url][/center]
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Hey BLM are you sure that link works? I got tired of looking at blank screen after 2-3 minutes and aborted it.
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 3]I just tried it and it worked! Here's another try at it. Hope this one works for you![/size][/font]
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It came up quickly for me. Its the bft/Nevada board.
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That one worked fine lots of nice fish, that had to be fun. Thanks for the help with the link don't know why the first one would not come up, sometimes these computers have a mind of their own.
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Your first link worked fine for me. That is a nice bunch of fish BLM but question is, do they fight like a wiper? WH2
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 3]A wiper may fight a little better but the larger stripers we caught (3-5 lbs) can strip a little line too. As you well know, it's all good.[/size][/font]
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plus wipers dont make it to 50-60 lbs either!
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didja hit the rio buffet?
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 3]Polokid, you can fish stripers tons of ways but we only boil fished this time of year in Mead. We used Storm Wildeye 4" swimbaits in pearl, chartreuse, and shad colors. They have a single hook for fast unhooking so you can get your bait back into the water. Treble hooks are out of the question for that type of fishing. Takes too long to get multiple hooks out of a fish's mouth. If you're lucky, you can hoist the fish out of the water and drop it fairly hard on the deck of the boat and a lot of times the hook pops loose and you can immediately cast out again.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 3]Later in the year, the shad will start moving into the coves and you can cast net them and fish live bait. You can also use the shad to jig with using Kast Masters, Spinnows, or Buzz Bombs.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 3]The F&G say there are over 1 MILLION fish in that lake right now that could break the state record striper. There are lots of stripers in Mead but the limit is (I think) 20 fish.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 3]southernman, no go on the Rio Buffet. It would of cost my brother $160 to take his family there so we bagged it for Appleby's. We did go to the Green Valley Ranch Station Casino. That is one of the nicest casinos I've been in. When that place's landscape matures it will be beautiful. They also have a killer theater with nice reclining louge seats. We went and saw "Open Range" with Kevin Costner. [/size][/font]
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I have bought some of those STORM baits and was curious on how they would work at willard!!! Hopefully I will get the chance to try next week!!!
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] So he was off to the open water!!! I am really looking forward to the chance to get some strips. Is the presentation for them alot like fishing for wipers??? all shad presentation????