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Sunday, 12/18/11- Hit the water early (6:00am). Lanched off the dirt at Gov't Wash. Motored to Las Vegas Wash in the rain. Looking to cash in on some hot live bait fishing.
Fish started splashing on the surface at gray light. Netted three shad on the first toss, went out to about 20' of water. Caught three stripers and went back for more shad. Fished until fifteen small stripers were in the box.
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Live bait striper. Everyone was catching fish today.
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Rains stopped, skies cleared, what a great day at the wash.
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Wolfs4evr and daughter in their new boat. What a great team!
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Pulled into a cove near Sand Island for lunch. What a great day to solo.
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I have to say Baysport - I like your minimalist approach. Leaving the center console at home is a very money-saving move.
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I have to say Baysport - I like your minimalist approach. Leaving the center console at home is a very money-saving move.
Ha! I put $4.00 in the little plastic gas tank and used about half of it! Figure if going solo, and sticking to the areas inside Sand Island why not take the 14' Gregor? Easy to tow, launches off the dirt at the fishing ground, runs on a plane at half throttle with the 15hp Merc, 35lb thrust transom mount trolling motor allows poking around in shallow back coves, etc. I love it!
I was in outhouse cove and saw a guy waving at me. Said he hiked all the way from the Hole 33 parking lot. Gave him a ride back and a bottle of water. Good thing there was an extra PFD on board. Asked me if I wanted to sell the boat! I think it was the stripers in the ice chest that sold him on it. Sorry I'm rambling......
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you make me miss my 14' lund
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Great day for sure. Are you metering bait and casting blind or do you sight the bait and then throw the net? Thinking of getting out there on my kayak but making bait probably is not as easy as throwing a sabiki in the water huh?
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I'll be a post hijacker...
You could toss a 3 footer from a yak sitting down, etc. It is blind casting for the most part. There is so much bait up there. One blind cast could get one a days worth of Shad sometimes at the very end of Vegas wash in the creek feeder/channel. If it is semi windy then it is really blind casting if it is calm you can see the little suckers breaking the surface and know exactly where the sweet spot is to cast.
If you see me in my blue Tracker boat there just yell at me and you can grab all the shad you want from me or I will buzz in and get you some. Tow you back in there too from wherever I am at if you want...
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Don't keep casting in the same place, move around. You need to push the bait into a spot where they will bunch up.
Try to get them between your boat and the shoreline/weeds. The bends in the wash are better than the spots right in the middle with current.
The best way is to get two boats working as a team to corral or push them together to a spot (one guy upstream and one downstream). Then both boats can cast and get more shad at one time than you would solo.
The Gizzard Shad are by the Tules/cattails or reeds.
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[quote wolfs4evr]I'll be a post hijacker...
You could toss a 3 footer from a yak sitting down, etc. It is blind casting for the most part. There is so much bait up there. One blind cast could get one a days worth of Shad sometimes at the very end of Vegas wash in the creek feeder/channel. If it is semi windy then it is really blind casting if it is calm you can see the little suckers breaking the surface and know exactly where the sweet spot is to cast.
If you see me in my blue Tracker boat there just yell at me and you can grab all the shad you want from me or I will buzz in and get you some. Tow you back in there too from wherever I am at if you want...[/quote]
Thanks much for the offer. I will be sure to keep an eye out for you on the water. I should not be to hard to spot I will be in a Yellow Hobie. I seen some vids of guys showing how to toss the throw net it looks like one has to put some time into it to get the technique down.
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Are you metering bait and casting blind or do you sight the bait and then throw the net?
Sometimes you toss blind. Sometimes you can tell they are on the surface because the surface looks kinda like raindrops hitting the water. Sometimes you see the bait in clear water. Sometimes you watch for the goony birds diving for shad.
If I had a kayak, I would set it out on the back lawn, sit on it and drink a beer. I'd toss the empty can on the lawn and then try to toss the net on top of the can. I'd keep trying until I could make the net land flat on the lawn and on top of the can everytime. Then I would drink more beer.
Get out there and poke around and you will figure it out and have a great time. I think catching bait is as fun as catching small stripers.
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good idea on the practice tip. empty beer cans, they have so many uses.
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somebody say BEER !! ARRRRRRR!
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[quote TheWhizzle]I have to say Baysport - I like your minimalist approach. Leaving the center console at home is a very money-saving move.[/quote]
I was wondering do you have a fish finder on your skiff?
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I was wondering do you have a fish finder on your skiff?
Nope, don't have one.
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