You know I get emotional
“I may be going to hell in a bucket. But at least I’m enjoying the ride”
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Originally posted by Phin
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Luke 8:22-25
Got smart… all over it:wink:
“I may be going to hell in a bucket. But at least I’m enjoying the ride”
Try pulling a 5 gal. bucket or two to slow your speed! Try drifting with your live baits, use a drag sock to slow you in the wind or an umbrella to speed you up, like a sail. Use to work for me before they invented the elect. T motor!
Put away the trolling stuff and ride around until you find some fish on your ff. Johns creek, around goat island, out from the beaches, and if you strike out there try the towers. Use carolina rigs with 1.5 oz egg sinkers. Drop your bait right above the fish. That is the easiest way to start. You really need to make your next investment a Ipilot trolling motor. It is a game changer. Next you will want to get a good bait tank and learn how to keep your herring as healthy as possible (maintain temp, filter media, foam off, right amount of salt)
Wellcraft V-20 sportfish with a 200 Evinrude
Tom your missing some good board fishing. Here it is in June and we are still pulling boards and having fish school.
“All fisherman lie. And if they say otherwise, then they’re lying”
“Sea~N~Stripes”
21’ Hewes Craft Custom
115 Evinrude
Any thoughts on what all this rain is going to do to the fishing for this weekend?
Bob Van Gundy
Marine Designs,Inc.
Custom Aluminum Fabrication
803-727-4069
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Originally posted by Happy BobAny thoughts on what all this rain is going to do to the fishing for this weekend?
Bob Van Gundy
Marine Designs,Inc.
Custom Aluminum Fabrication
803-727-4069
Don’t put away your planers … going to be another couple of weeks of surface fishing … 
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Originally posted by steelytomPut away the trolling stuff and ride around until you find some fish on your ff. Johns creek, around goat island, out from the beaches, and if you strike out there try the towers. Use carolina rigs with 1.5 oz egg sinkers. Drop your bait right above the fish. That is the easiest way to start. You really need to make your next investment a Ipilot trolling motor. It is a game changer. Next you will want to get a good bait tank and learn how to keep your herring as healthy as possible (maintain temp, filter media, foam off, right amount of salt)
Wellcraft V-20 sportfish with a 200 Evinrude
I love my TM as much as the next guy, but I would still rather have a bait tank first.
You can always anchor or drift live bait (especially with the summer coming up) without a trolling motor, but a trolling motor doesn’t help much if you have a bucket full of dead bait.
'07 198 DLX Carolina Skiff
FS90 Suzuki
I marked fish a pretty good bit on the Simrad, I should have screen shotted them. I was told by some folks at work, “you gotta be trolling for them this time of year”. Should have went with our gut and ditched the trolling and tried picking at them with drop rigs. As far as the bait tank, the live well seemed to keep them pretty lively for a couple hours. I could tell it wasn’t the best for them though, fish scales were floating all around. They were tougher than I had expected, I really thought they would end up cut-bait. They did have plenty of oxygen force fed to them at 2.5 mph.
Gonna sell these Taco outriggers soon and pick me up some Marsh Tackys, rumor is you catch quality atleast doubles. Seriously cant wait to get some of Phins outriggers though, they are a work of art.
2006 23 SeaCraft, 2008 Suzuki 250.
Still wanting U-rigs? Never got a response. PM was responded to.
“I may be going to hell in a bucket. But at least I’m enjoying the ride”
If you want to go the DIY (cheap) route, build your own bait tank. I’ve got about $75.00 in mine & it keeps the herring alive & frisky all day, even in the hot months. I can post pics if you want. There are all kinds of ideas & videos on the world wide web.
By the way, what the heck is a “Marsh Tacky”??
Bob Van Gundy
Marine Designs,Inc.
Custom Aluminum Fabrication
803-727-4069
You absolutely do not want to cycle lake water to your bait. They need cooler water and salt helps them a lot. You are better off plugging up the drain and running an aerator or Venturi pump.
Wellcraft V-20 sportfish with a 200 Evinrude
Happy Bob, Marsh Tacky is actually a very hearty horse, native to South Carolina. They were lost here by the Spaniards, supposedly from sunk exploration, and war ships. They made home on many of our islands. But what I’m referring too are the Carbon Fiber outriggers that Phin from here, Charlestonfishing.com is building. You’ll have to check them out.
http://old.charlestonfishing.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=151832&whichpage=4
2006 23 SeaCraft, 2008 Suzuki 250.
Ahhh, I didn’t realize that the lake water was actually bad for them. I’d love to see some pictures of the homemade ones.
2006 23 SeaCraft, 2008 Suzuki 250.
Are you running outriggers on Murray? If so, I can tell you in the summer months yahoos run way to close to trolling boats to be running outriggers. Probably going to lose some tackle.
“Wailord”
1979 17’ Montauk
90 Johnson
Wilderness Ride 115
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Originally posted by jason_blockerAhhh, I didn’t realize that the lake water was actually bad for them. I’d love to see some pictures of the homemade ones.
2006 23 SeaCraft, 2008 Suzuki 250.
I’ll get some pictures of mine when the rain stops & I can uncover my boat to get to it.
And now I know what a Marsh Tacky is.
Bob Van Gundy
Marine Designs,Inc.
Custom Aluminum Fabrication
803-727-4069
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Originally posted by jason_blockerAhhh, I didn’t realize that the lake water was actually bad for them. I’d love to see some pictures of the homemade ones.
2006 23 SeaCraft, 2008 Suzuki 250.
It’s not the fact that it’s lake water, it’s just that if you are circulating surface water in your built in tank it’s too warm right now.
You can always close off your intake, add your own water, ice and use a bubbler in your built in tank. I believe Fogman has said he does that and can keep bait all day.
'07 198 DLX Carolina Skiff
FS90 Suzuki
That boat should have a good re circulation pump built in. All it may take is a shutoff valve to stop the flow of incoming water. It won’t filter the water, but what I would do is just run the tank you have on recirc. Use the water from the bait store and add salt and foam off. Should be good for a 3-5 hour fishing day. Frozen water bottles will keep temps down.
“Wailord”
1979 17’ Montauk
90 Johnson
Wilderness Ride 115
x2 not relying on lake water. DIY bait tank is the way to go, steelytom gave some great tips along with all the solid advice offered in this thread. I keep 3 dozen herring alive in a 5 gallon bucket in my kayak with minimal causalities now but it took a lot of tweaking to get it just right.
Temperature, aeration, stress relief solution or foam off, and smooth transit are crucial to keeping the scales clean and green on striper candies. The frozen water bottle trick is the way to go, ice can be jagged and annihilate your herring.
I don’t use foam off, instead I add a few capfuls of fish stress relief solution from PetsMart. It helps calm the herring and keeps em slick. I just monitor my bucket constantly to remove dead ones (morale drops quickly) and scoop out any foam as it goes. I change the water 2-3 times when I fish all day and add the solution each time.
Now you would have to figure out the mad scientist part yourself since your tank will obviously trump my five gallon bucket. But, hopefully you can use some of these tips and the great information everyone has offered up!
Proverbs 3:5-6
Yeah I was running my outriggers, but we went early, before sun up. If it was to get crowded I can easily retract them and move them out the way. I saw several people pulling the planer boards while we were fishing, they look complicated. As far as losing the tackle I surely don’t need any help in that department. I seem to lose more stuff than my wife can understand. She always says, “Didn’t we just buy that?” I have to explain, it was either dropped overboard, popped off, bad knot, hung on a stump, or simply placed in someone else s tackle bag, or still on their rod and reel.
I can cut off the flow to my Livewell, and add an aeration pump fairly easily. I guess biggest downfall to using it would be that it isn’t circular. It’s not completely square, pretty rounded corners, but corners none the less. And I appreciate all the wealth of knowledge that everyone is sharing. Y’all will have me catching stripers soon enough.
2006 23 SeaCraft, 2008 Suzuki 250.