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Pretty Good Day
Got up @ 3:30 to see this...1.5 hr drive, ready boat, get bait...this about half way of 10 mile run to fishin' hole
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90...n/IMGP0593.jpg ...runnin' about 40... First hour and a half, lookin' BLEAK...can't find 'em...no sign no trace...Hartwell only 1,000 miles of shoreline...we look some more...find some birds; they're only hovering, not feedin'...several loons, but this place the most promising, so we put bait in the water...two largemouths 1.5 and 8 lbs...OK...then it starts...all around us...feedin' fish...w/5 lines in the water, sometimes can't get to all the bent rods...in less than 2 hrs we boated and released 25-30 stripers and hybrid...it was a Chinese Fire Drill!! :o http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90...n/IMGP0598.jpg This one of the small hybrid:the action had just slowed enough to get a pic...we had tossed back many of these twice as big as the one above... ...and for good measure, a coupla 10-12 lb stripes http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90.../IMGP05952.jpg If ya know what "Striper Thumb" is, both of us got a pretty good case ;) |
Pretty Good Day
Got up @ 3:30 to see this...1.5 hr drive, ready boat, get bait...this about half way of 10 mile run to fishin' hole
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90...n/IMGP0593.jpg ...runnin' about 40... First hour and a half, lookin' BLEAK...can't find 'em...no sign no trace...Hartwell only 1,000 miles of shoreline...we look some more...find some birds; they're only hovering, not feedin'...several loons, but this place the most promising, so we put bait in the water...two largemouths 1.5 and 8 lbs...OK...then it starts...all around us...feedin' fish...w/5 lines in the water, sometimes can't get to all the bent rods...in less than 2 hrs we boated and released 25-30 stripers and hybrid...it was a Chinese Fire Drill!! :o http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90...n/IMGP0598.jpg This one of the small hybrid:the action had just slowed enough to get a pic...we had tossed back many of these twice as big as the one above... ...and for good measure, a coupla 10-12 lb stripes http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90.../IMGP05952.jpg If ya know what "Striper Thumb" is, both of us got a pretty good case ;) |
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Nice fish there RAP, having them over for dinner tonight.
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Nice fish there RAP, having them over for dinner tonight.
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Very nice REEL, I love a good striper thumb ;)
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Very nice REEL, I love a good striper thumb ;)
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Pretty good day ???
That seems like a great day to me ;D Were that thumb rash with pride ;D |
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Pretty good day ???
That seems like a great day to me ;D Were that thumb rash with pride ;D |
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Good job you old coot, you all need some help down there ;D
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Good job you old coot, you all need some help down there ;D
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all i can say is thats sweet ;D ;D ;D the striper eludes me :-[ :-/
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all i can say is thats sweet ;D ;D ;D the striper eludes me :-[ :-/
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Good Job ole buddy!
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Good Job ole buddy!
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Thanks guys ... We coulda used some help, Willy ... two of us in the boat w/ 3-4 rods goin' off get's excitin'!!...durin' a short lull, a friend of ours called...while talkin' to him, two more rods went off and had to hang-up in his FACE ;) ... not even, "see ya, gotta go!!" ... called him back later...he understood ... he was at work DROOLIN' ;D ... ;D ;D ... We were tryin' to get pix of a coupla BIG hybrid when two more rods went off, so had to cancel the photo-shoot REEL quick ;) ... |
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Thanks guys ... We coulda used some help, Willy ... two of us in the boat w/ 3-4 rods goin' off get's excitin'!!...durin' a short lull, a friend of ours called...while talkin' to him, two more rods went off and had to hang-up in his FACE ;) ... not even, "see ya, gotta go!!" ... called him back later...he understood ... he was at work DROOLIN' ;D ... ;D ;D ... We were tryin' to get pix of a coupla BIG hybrid when two more rods went off, so had to cancel the photo-shoot REEL quick ;) ... |
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sounds like a blast Rap, you had a good day 8)
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sounds like a blast Rap, you had a good day 8)
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Man, I hate when you got to set the camera down cause of a big fish, or a thong ;D
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Man, I hate when you got to set the camera down cause of a big fish, or a thong ;D
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Way to go RAP!!! Don't ya just love days like that??
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Way to go RAP!!! Don't ya just love days like that??
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Looks like a great day, Reel! ;D
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Looks like a great day, Reel! ;D
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True BUMMERS!!... ;D ... but remember for both...PRESENTATION is everything!! ;D ;D ... |
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True BUMMERS!!... ;D ... but remember for both...PRESENTATION is everything!! ;D ;D ... |
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Good work!! I hopr to have some striper thumb soon!!
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Good work!! I hopr to have some striper thumb soon!!
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Oh yeah man, pretty fish pretty! * That last pic is the bomb. * Got him in the planer eh?
Nice work and thanks for the pics...DAWG! Ifn you don't mind a feller askin, what depth they be bitin in rite now? * Is it best to use small threadfin herring or med. to large gizzard shad? *That is what I have access to in numbers with my net at my dock on High Rock. * ;) |
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Oh yeah man, pretty fish pretty! * That last pic is the bomb. * Got him in the planer eh?
Nice work and thanks for the pics...DAWG! Ifn you don't mind a feller askin, what depth they be bitin in rite now? * Is it best to use small threadfin herring or med. to large gizzard shad? *That is what I have access to in numbers with my net at my dock on High Rock. * ;) |
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Good eyes on the planer board, BR ;) ...I love 'em, even though they're a PIA, they ''reach out and touch" fish you'd never see w/ out 'em...some guys'll pull 6 at a time...too cluttered for me...I pull 4 flat-lines, all w/ hook and herring only, puttin' outside two on planers...makes things manageable when the Fire-Drill starts ;) ... ...but at Lake Cherokee in TN, those fish will not hit flat-lines...only hit down-lines...1.5 oz. barrel-sinker, swivel and 5' leader ...up there, we net Gizzards and the stripes reely love 'em ... we buy Blue-Back Herring here...striper-candy!! ... so the idea is, yer gonna hafta try both at High Rock to see what's gonna work best ;) ... but all this is reason for Elec Trollin' Motor, unless ya got a perfect wind and can drift :D ... You need to come down... 8) ... |
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Good eyes on the planer board, BR ;) ...I love 'em, even though they're a PIA, they ''reach out and touch" fish you'd never see w/ out 'em...some guys'll pull 6 at a time...too cluttered for me...I pull 4 flat-lines, all w/ hook and herring only, puttin' outside two on planers...makes things manageable when the Fire-Drill starts ;) ... ...but at Lake Cherokee in TN, those fish will not hit flat-lines...only hit down-lines...1.5 oz. barrel-sinker, swivel and 5' leader ...up there, we net Gizzards and the stripes reely love 'em ... we buy Blue-Back Herring here...striper-candy!! ... so the idea is, yer gonna hafta try both at High Rock to see what's gonna work best ;) ... but all this is reason for Elec Trollin' Motor, unless ya got a perfect wind and can drift :D ... You need to come down... 8) ... |
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Turbo...didn't mean to ignore ya...I knew this would take a little time... Wish I could invite 'em to dinner!!...30-40 years ago, Hartwell became contaminated w/ PCBs :'( ... accidental release into tributary upstream...lots of people eat 'em...nobody glowin' green and no elevated health issues around the lake, but I choose not to eat 'em...DNR regularly monitors and issues warnings...multi-million dollar solutions have been talked about for years, but no action yet ... fish are perfectly healthy and grow up to 60 lbs, water's clear and beautiful ... PCBs heavy and sink/stay on bottom in limited areas...we regularly ''play and fish" on this wonderful lake, but I'm just not gonna take the chance w/ my children ... great big-fish lake 8) ... ...when I go "meat-fishin", that's a trip to Lake Murray or Clark Hill ;) 8) ... |
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Turbo...didn't mean to ignore ya...I knew this would take a little time... Wish I could invite 'em to dinner!!...30-40 years ago, Hartwell became contaminated w/ PCBs :'( ... accidental release into tributary upstream...lots of people eat 'em...nobody glowin' green and no elevated health issues around the lake, but I choose not to eat 'em...DNR regularly monitors and issues warnings...multi-million dollar solutions have been talked about for years, but no action yet ... fish are perfectly healthy and grow up to 60 lbs, water's clear and beautiful ... PCBs heavy and sink/stay on bottom in limited areas...we regularly ''play and fish" on this wonderful lake, but I'm just not gonna take the chance w/ my children ... great big-fish lake 8) ... ...when I go "meat-fishin", that's a trip to Lake Murray or Clark Hill ;) 8) ... |
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Hey that's a shame on the contamination...I know that all too well. *Here at High Rock we were contaminated with Mercury from our local Duracell plant many years ago so its basically as you described above...I've never eaten a High Rock fish ever. * I do think I would eat a few crappie if I ever get around to it.
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Hey that's a shame on the contamination...I know that all too well. *Here at High Rock we were contaminated with Mercury from our local Duracell plant many years ago so its basically as you described above...I've never eaten a High Rock fish ever. * I do think I would eat a few crappie if I ever get around to it.
Keep on doing whatcha doin there Striper King ;) |
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SCDNR says OK to eat fish from Hartwell w/ following provisions:
Eat fish under 5 lbs Remove all skin and fat Don't eat fish caught in contaminated area (Seneca River)...and there's the problem...these stripes are highly migratory ... on the move constantly and can travel from one end of lake to the other... Like I said...meat fish from another lake... ;) ... |
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SCDNR says OK to eat fish from Hartwell w/ following provisions:
Eat fish under 5 lbs Remove all skin and fat Don't eat fish caught in contaminated area (Seneca River)...and there's the problem...these stripes are highly migratory ... on the move constantly and can travel from one end of lake to the other... Like I said...meat fish from another lake... ;) ... |
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Roger dodger ;)
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Roger dodger ;)
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