Las Vegas Wash

[Telbone]

Hello folks,

I met 4poundonly at the ramp about 10:30a this morning and we headed off. We trolled the trout plants at Hemingway for a bit w/out success so we decided to head to the 33 hole. After arriving we cruised some of the coves and cast the net for shad w/out success before we started chunking some anchovies. After a while we noticed some boats deep up in the Las Vegas wash casting nets, so we decided to cruise up in and see if we couldn't get lucky with the shad. After several casts I netted a 10 inch gizzard shad. Good thing 4poundonly was w/ me or I probably would of filleted it and ate it thinking it was a tilapia. After 25 casts we had about 30 shad in the bucket so we decided to go back after the striper.

We got out of the shallow water and pulled off a point near the 33 hole parking lot. I hooked up with a fat little 1 to 2 lber in no time. 4lbonly got a nice bite then nothing.

We only landed the one striper, but I feel I gained more knowledge in this one trip on Mead that all the previous combined. Being able to net shad was a huge hurdle to overcome.

As a side not, I had a blast fishing w/ 4lbonly and am hoping he'll come along in the future on some of my trips.

What a nice day on the lake,
Mark
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[4poundonly]

Yup it was definitely a nice day out on the lake with Telbone. I really thought we were gonna slay em that day considering we had all the tools live shad,fat gizzard,anchovies,lures,porta boat etc but I guess thats why they call it fishing not catching.

We pulled into some very stained muddy lookin water in the wash I was screwing around with a crankbait and Telbone was throwing the net. After a few minutes I hear him yell "I got a tilapia bro" it turned out to be a monster gizzard shad that right there made my whole day. He ended up rounding up a bunch of threadfins as well.

Decided to anchor up off a point near "the hole" and Telbone gave me the pleasure of free lining that gizzard whole no bites but he sure was movin around down there. Half hour later Telbone landed a nice striper on a dead threadfin shad. I was guzzling down a beer when I got a huge bite but missed him by a split second.

It was dark by then so we pack up Telbone just folded up his boat like a piece of paper and put it on the roof rack. Overall great day would like to get out there again with ya buddy. Post those pictures you got. Heres the only pic I got of the gizzard.
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[TheWhizzle]

Nice guys! That is a fat gizzard! Nice to see that they are doing ok. Good job on the shad - I hope you froze the rest for later!
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