With the fishing mostly in a transition period, I have been doing a bit of suburban/urban kayak exploration on the Big P and Big H the past few weeks. With limited daylight after work now, its been a bit tough in new areas, but I've been lucky to put some quality fish in the boat. This 6:05 sunset thing sucks!
Started off last night throwing a 4" Storm Swimshad for our favorite seasonal migratory fish with stripes and had a relatively quick hook-up. Fish came out of nowhere, slamming my lure almost as I was about to pull it out of the water, giving me a heart attack and drenching my jeans in the process
. Very hard fighting fish, got her in the net, a Striper of the Hybrid variety! Fish went about 24", a couple quick pictures and back she went. Moved on and began vertically jigging some deeper holes and had another hard hook-up that ended up popping off. Finished the night with a solid 13.5" slab Crappie on a smaller swimbait before making the dark paddle upstream back to my car.
10-23-2013, 10:19 AM
Broken Stripes 10/22
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