freelines and downrods everywhere from 20-70 feet on all sides of spence, and at the dam. then trolled bucktails and a herring hooked through the eyes back from the dam to spence in the channel, nothing. By this time it was 12 or so and the regatta was swinging into full effect so we left.
We got one big strike right when we put a herring in in the 150’ flats behind spence, took line for a couple seconds, then it went slack, we pulled the herring up and he had had about an inch or so of his tail ripped off. A stinger hook would have had that one. It was a very impressive hit though because the rod about doubled over into the water.
Sorry to hear bout the skunk. I’m looking forward to other reports since me daughter is asking to go. For some reason they are hard to catch and other times it’s easy. Maybe next time.
Magna
I never made it out. I was supposed to go out with Santecarl friday. Seems to me that cold fronts and full moon will shut them down.
I heard about the full moon. A friend and I went down to the cooper river large mouth bass fishing thurs and fri and did pretty good. The bream were supposed to be biting on the full moon as well. I cant say anything about the stripers though. I cant imagine the stripers would shut down. I wonder how the guides did this weekend ?
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Originally posted by Magnawake
I heard about the full moon. A friend and I went down to the cooper river large mouth bass fishing thurs and fri and did pretty good. The bream were supposed to be biting on the full moon as well. I cant say anything about the stripers though. I cant imagine the stripers would shut down. I wonder how the guides did this weekend ?
I honestly didn’t see many boats out Saturday morning at all, NOTHING like the usual contigent…we had downrods out near the guide boat with that little cabin in the front, white, larger boat…anyway, we didn’t see them pull anything up either. Didn’t see striper addiction or the blue center console boat out there…really didn’t see anyone land anything (maybe because obviously I was in the wrong spots 
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My observation is this. When you dont see any guides, they are probably all stacked up somewhere else catching fish. They talk to each other over the radio, who knows what channel. I have seen them running from place to place, putting rods down, picking them up, moving again and again. Thats when I assume they are not catching much. If I’m at the towers at 8:30 am and see some guides going back to the boat ramp, that means they have limited out and are going to get breakfast, and I need to look for a different spot. How does all this sound?
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Originally posted by Magnawake
My observation is this. When you dont see any guides, they are probably all stacked up somewhere else catching fish. They talk to each other over the radio, who knows what channel. I have seen them running from place to place, putting rods down, picking them up, moving again and again. Thats when I assume they are not catching much. If I’m at the towers at 8:30 am and see some guides going back to the boat ramp, that means they have limited out and are going to get breakfast, and I need to look for a different spot. How does all this sound?
Yeah, I definitely agree with that theory. I made about the same comments to my buddy in the boat with me Saturday morning. I guess a more appropriate question to make me better is: how long do you try a spot before you move? and, How much action do you have to see on your fishfinder to decide that is a spot to try?
Working thoset two questions out would help a lot I think…