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Let me know when you head up here and I will let you know what/where the fish are at that time.
Normally in summer late in the afternoons you can look for schooling fish(almost worthless on weekends due to amount of boat traffic) or if you know where the humps are they will come to the humps just before dark to feed.
ALso the leadcore/downrigger bite is great in mid to late summer.
When are you coming up, right now you can catch them on cut bait on most any point (this make for great beer drinking fishing in the afternoons) and pontoons are great for beaching and throwing out some lines.
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It might be next weekend. It’s in Chicaksaw Point neighborhood, wherever that is on the lake, SC side, somewhat northern part of the lake. I’ve booze-cruised with them before, but never fished except for the cove where the dock is. I know absolutely nothing about Hartwell. If we could catch just 1 striper or hybrid, I’d be a God. To be able to say “Do what I tell you and we will catch a striper” and actually catch one, that would be amazing. I’m not looking for secret spots, but a recommendation on bait and a rig, and basically I take it that a point on the main lake, like the end of the cove, that might produce a striper near sundown? What about nightfishing for striper? Again, not sure if there is a fish finder available.
Hold the tomato, fool!
Find a point close to deep water(20 to 30 feet of water). Anchor on the point using two anchors. One off the front and one off the back to keep the boat from twisting. Get some herring and cut the tail off at the anal fin. Put it on a Carolina rig with about a 1/2 ounce egg sinker. You can chop some up and use them for chum to bring the fish in. You can also hang a couple live ones straight down off the boat and crank them just off the bottom. You can also just run the pontoon up on the bank at a point and fish off the back. You’ll probably get some catfish too.
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Originally posted by steelytomFind a point close to deep water(20 to 30 feet of water). Anchor on the point using two anchors. One off the front and one off the back to keep the boat from twisting. Get some herring and cut the tail off at the anal fin. Put it on a Carolina rig with about a 1/2 ounce egg sinker. You can chop some up and use them for chum to bring the fish in. You can also hang a couple live ones straight down off the boat and crank them just off the bottom. You can also just run the pontoon up on the bank at a point and fish off the back. You’ll probably get some catfish too.
Trust us this will work great this time of year, if you do not get a bite in 30 minutes or so be thinking of your next point. Most will give a spot an hour or so but then move but the biggest part of the time the hits will come in the first 30 minutes or so. Gentle sloping points near deep water work better than steep drop offs. The bite is an early morning bite till 10-11 normaly and then late evening(great beer drinking time).
Steelytom is correct in that you will catch some cats but it is VERY EASY to tell the bites apart. The cats will nible and play with the bait but the stripers will run like a bat out of hell with the bait.
You will be on the Tugaloo river part of the lake if you are staying at Chickasaw Point. I would concentrate on points on the main channel and not in coves this time of year.
I may go Friday and if I do I will post where I went and results.
If your buddy does not have a bait tank you can buy live blue backs and throw them on ice. I cut mine live but I have a buddy of mine that is very good at cut bait fishing and he just throws his in a cooler and cuts them but he says the live ones cut seem to do a little better.
Good luck
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hey steely; that is some ■■■■ good advice! where was that sat night when we were in the seapro? LOL. oh well; always after the fact.
Bad news… next two weekends my friend is busy. Thanks for the advice anyway. I suppose by the time I can hustle my way up there, the fish will be deep and I’ll have to have fancy things like downriggers and umbrella rigs and fish finders. We will just have to catch crappie under a bridge with a lantern. Boo hoo!
Hold the tomato, fool!
Let me know if you are up this way and if I am going you are welcome to hop in, I am by no means an expert but I do well every now and then
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yea we anchored up on a point on monday had 2 rods freelinin herring and i was throwin a 10wt. with a sinkin line a hybrid grabs one rod then lets go, i set that rod down, grab the other bait rod thats goin off, then a gar grabs the other rod i set down and drags it overboard, the fish im fightin breaks the weak a@# ten lb line and then i jump over board after the rod, come back up empty handed and cast back to the bridge with the fly rod and hook up to a nice hybrid close to 10 lb, the points are goin off this time a year