Hey Reelapeeiling

[knightfisher]

Hey we are going up to clarks hill this weekend hooking the boat to the motor home and going to do some Fathersday camping and fishing. Can you give me some tips on catching some stripers, Never fished for them up there i am strickly salt water here in southeast Ga. Any tips on fishing the lake would help alot. Thanks

[reelapeelin]

Yeah, Knightfisher...see reply on "Wore her out" thread, too...

Most fishermen are using 15-20lb rigs,(mine's 15)...if you can keep blue-back herring alive that's the primo bait all the lake fishermen use, but you gotta have self-contained bait-tank(raw water won't work) and free-line those herring up til 10 or so in morning w/an elec trolling motor just enough to keep those baits behind the boat...if you're seeing fish at a given depth as you move around, use 1-1 1/2 oz barrel sinker and drop to that depth as you move...

NOW is transitional time...water is warming and fish are moving deeper...if no bait tank or trolling motor, no problem...CUT-BAIT...get the same bait from one of the bait sellers around the lake and put them in ice...ride around points and flats til you are marking fish ON THE BOTTOM. and drop a marker...anchor bow and stern over the marker, cut your bait in half, use both and toss 'em out using same weight as above...let settle to bottom and give it an hour or so...if nothing, relocate...anchor tight because if your boat moves and drags the bait into the silt on bottom, they won't touch it...keep slack in lines...you can fish as many or as few lines as you wanna...more the better...I use 12, some use up to 24 :o...rod-holders!...if you lay it out and a fish hits it, it'll be a gonner for sure...

I'm gonna look at a map and see where you're gonna be...might help w/ bait location and fishin' spots...GA or SC fishing license will do anywhere on the lake...back w/ more later... :)...

[Blue_Runner]

That's some good info RAP. Also, if you DO have the bait tank and can keep some shad or herring alive, assuming you can find some, the find em and anchor thing works good with live bait too. Use more leader - maybe 4 or 5ft on a Carolina rig with the 1 1/2 barrel sinker. Lower til the sinker hits bottom, then 5 turns of the reel to put the bait just off the bottom.

Using more leader lets those shad swim around in circles, thereby enticing a bite.

Also, question for you Mr. RAP - I haven't had my GPS long enough to know this, but do you still use markers even though you have GPS? It seems the man overboard feature or simply marking a waypoint would work just as well as a marker.

Thanks -
Blue

[knightfisher]

Thanks guy's for the info i will try it i will be on the ga. side of the lake. Don't really understand about the bait well though i have a live well that brings water in and dumps through a tube out the side of boat.

[reelapeelin]

Knight...hope I catch you before you leave...tank needs to be self-contained rather than circulating raw water from the lake...sounds funny, but bait wont live long as water is too warm on surface...water needs to aereate and circulate in the tank w/ out returning to lake...that way you can keep the water cool...they make a floating aereator (12 volt) that'll work fine as long as water stays cool...insulated tank will help... ;) :)...you may need some "bait-saver" to treat water depending on where you get it...if you get bait from bait-man, he'll advise..

Found Misiltoe on the map and you're on body of water called GA Little River...the entire area around Bussey Point should be great this time of year...free-line early, cut-bait after 10:30 or 11...if no elec motor, set up a drift across points...

BR...old school me still uses markers...most areas of the lakes are familiar enough to recognize...or at least sonar around til I find 'em...these fish move around so much and I don't get to stay on 'em as much as I wanna, so returning to a SPECIFIC spot ain't real important...

[Franco]

Hey RAP, is this where you were:
Shark attacks 2nd teen off Fla. Panhandle

By BILL KACZOR
Associated Press Writer





PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) -- A teenage boy was bitten and critically injured Monday in the second shark attack in three days along the Florida Panhandle.

The boy, whose age and name were not released, was taken to Bay Medical Center in Panama City. The nature of his injuries was not immediately released, but he underwent surgery and his condition stabilized, hospital spokeswoman Christa Hild said.

"That means he's going to be OK," she said.

The boy was attacked off Cape San Blas, a popular vacation destination about 80 miles southeast of the Destin area, where 14-year-old Jamie Marie Daigle of Gonzales, La., was killed by a shark on Saturday.

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Daigle had been swimming on a boogie board with a friend about 100 yards from shore when a shark tore away the flesh on one leg from her hip to her knee.

Erich Ritter of the Shark Attack Institute said the girl was probably attacked by a 6-foot bull shark, based on measurements of the bite wound. He said it was unlikely the same shark was responsible for Monday's attack.

After Saturday's attack, a 20-mile stretch of shore was closed to swimmers, but beaches reopened Sunday with a double staff of sheriff's beach patrol officers. On Monday, off-duty deputies were called in to beef up beach patrols and watch for sharks from the air and the water.

Florida averaged more than 30 shark attacks a year from 2000 to 2003, but there were only 12 attacks off the state's coast last year, according to figures compiled by the American Elasmobranch Society and the Florida Museum of Natural History.

[reelapeelin]

Good eye, Franco...Yep that's exactly where we were...been watchin' that pretty closely...the Indian Pass/ Cape San Blas waters are known for healthy shark population...lotta black-tips...but here's the thing...ANYWHERE one gets into the wild ocean, they are subject to the critters that are out there...I don't know of a beach that's 100% shark-free...right here in N. Mrtle Beach (Cherry Grove) held world record for Tiger Shark...1760lbs :o off the PIER...fish that size doesn't just take a leg...

Will I go back to San Blas?...1st chance I get...but what happened to that kid Monday is another good reason to have a boat and as long as you gonna have a boat, why not have a V20?... ;D...

[Pipe_Dream]

You're so right! There are sharks everywhere along the coast. Back when we vacationed here (in our younger days) we swam AWAY out into the sea, and y'know, we all got occasionally "bumped" by things but that was the most of it. These days I only go in to my waist, and that's usually on those rare days when we have good wave action for body surfing, or when my dogs are swimming out too far for my comfort. So I go and swim with them! ;D A guy I know up at the marina caught two sharks last weekend right out here in the sound, a 10 foot Mako and a 9 foot Lemon. I got to get out there and wet a few lines . . . 8)

[reelapeelin]

The 16 yr old at San Blas was fishin' in waist-deep water...first thing they knew of shark's presence was the attack...

[knightfisher]

If people knew just how many sharks are swiming around them even in waist deep water you would never see anyone out there. I am in Southeast Ga. St. Simons Island and it is one of the biggest breeding grounds on the east coast, We fish the sound and right off the beach and starting this time of year the small baby sharks are a real pain in th a~~ we go whiting fishing to you guy's north of us i think you call them grounders we catch more sharks than any thing else.anyway i grew up shark fishing off the Jacksonville beach Fl. peir and i was there i think it was 1976 when a good friend caught the worlds record from land hammerhead shark 14ft6in. still holds the record. I also grew up a surfer and had sharks brush me when i was out sitting on my board. This weekend with the teenage girl that was killed they say the shark kept atacking while the surfer was getting her to shore that is very rare sharks usually only bite once and i guess they find out that it is human and does not bite a second time.

[reelapeelin]

I guess I'm a little more pesimistic...I think they'd just as soon dine on "human" as anything else they encounter... :P...

14 1/2 footer..."Biggie size your shark, Sir?"... :o...

[Franco]

Thats why I have a boat!!! Not too many guys get bit in the boat!!!

[Pipe_Dream]

Reminds me of the line from Jaws:

"We need a bigger boat!"

:o