Honestly didn’t plan on fishing at all this am thinking the wind would be blowin too hard this morning…Then, my son, up from Charleston for the WE, shakes me out of bed about 6 am…I thought the f’in house was on fire…“The wind ain’t blowin! It’s calm!!”
Of coarse, I immediately jumped out of bed and we set a world record for getting the boat hooked up and loaded and were on the water at 6:45.
Started marking fish right away when we stopped and got the rods down. Drifted through some fish, but none of them took our bait. We were talking about how that cold front must have shut them down when the first rod went down. Got him in and then all hell broke loose. We had 5 rods in the water and within a few minutes after the first fish we had a fish on 4 rods…and that happened twice this morning.
No real big fish, but 3 good keepers in the 24" to 26" range and a bunch of smaller keepers as well as a bunch of short fish. All caught drifting 35’-40’ in 100’+ water.
Didn’t see any schooling fish, but there was a pretty good chop on the water and it would have been hard to see them.
'07 198 DLX Carolina Skiff
FS90 Suzuki
Are you still up near the dam, thanks !
210CCSEAPRO 225merc.
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15’ High Tide
50hp RUDE
196 Carolina Skiff
60 Merc.
Yea, still been fishing the lower lake. Went out again this am and everything was totally different. Lately, for us, it’s been a good early morning bite fishing about 35’ and we’ve been getting off the lake about 9 or so. This morning we didn’t have a single keeper and only a few short fish by 9:00. Moved around and started marking some fish deep. Then, in next 2 hours, we got 6 keepers and a few more shorts all caught at 60’-70’ in 130’ before we ran out of bait about 11:00.
The wind made it really tough to control a drift this morning even with the wind sock out. Finally figured out that idling my boat in reverse directly into the wind held us just about right.
'07 198 DLX Carolina Skiff
FS90 Suzuki
I may be in, but I may have to go to Charlotte. If not then Im in
I saw the fish at 60 ft last Saturday. I even dropped a line or two down there, but didn’t get any hits. I’ll be out there tomorrow morning for another try.
H&T
I"m gonna try the the am too…will give you a call…also will be on ch 68
'07 198 DLX Carolina Skiff
FS90 Suzuki