Jay Murakoshi
10-10-2006, 01:47 AM
Well, this could be a short report or a long report. Anyway, I went over to the Forebay this morning meeting up with Bob Laskodi. The weather was perfect for shorts and sleeveless t-shirt at 7:30am.
We launched the boat and headed over to the Mederios side of the pond and motored into my HOT SPOT for the past two weeks.
For those of you who are calling the "wind lady" the lake level is not 222.40, it's around 210.00. It's down at least 10' from last week. Some of the weeds are well exposed.
Started out with a couple top water boils in the weed beds. One fish that Bob hooked into ran pretty good before coming unbuttoned. I had a good fish but when he came close to the boat, GONE. Damn, we sucked.
But I think my fish grabbed the flashtail because some of it was missing.
The water was "flat" allllllll day and we were sitting there wishing we had a slight breeze. It had to be in the mid 80's today.
Well, around 4pm our wish came true. The breeze started up so I decided to call the "wind lady" on my cell phone to see how accurate she was. She said the wind was from 1 to 19mph and the direction was from the north. Bob and I looked at each other and couldn't believe it... 19mph, heck there was just a slight ripple on the surface. Then it got stronger and stronger with small white caps. Now this is within a 10 minute span. We thought about sticking it out but after a long slow day, we bagged it and went home. All in all around 10 stripers and a couple LMB. Pretty dang slow in my book.
OH YEAH, my fish were caught on the red collared clouser in White/Chartreuse. Going back on Friday morning for some top water action.
That's the report.
Jay
By the way, the red collared bead on the clouser is made prior to adding the colored bucktail. The material is UV knot sense. Rotating the fly in a Nor-Vise for true rotation.
We launched the boat and headed over to the Mederios side of the pond and motored into my HOT SPOT for the past two weeks.
For those of you who are calling the "wind lady" the lake level is not 222.40, it's around 210.00. It's down at least 10' from last week. Some of the weeds are well exposed.
Started out with a couple top water boils in the weed beds. One fish that Bob hooked into ran pretty good before coming unbuttoned. I had a good fish but when he came close to the boat, GONE. Damn, we sucked.
But I think my fish grabbed the flashtail because some of it was missing.
The water was "flat" allllllll day and we were sitting there wishing we had a slight breeze. It had to be in the mid 80's today.
Well, around 4pm our wish came true. The breeze started up so I decided to call the "wind lady" on my cell phone to see how accurate she was. She said the wind was from 1 to 19mph and the direction was from the north. Bob and I looked at each other and couldn't believe it... 19mph, heck there was just a slight ripple on the surface. Then it got stronger and stronger with small white caps. Now this is within a 10 minute span. We thought about sticking it out but after a long slow day, we bagged it and went home. All in all around 10 stripers and a couple LMB. Pretty dang slow in my book.
OH YEAH, my fish were caught on the red collared clouser in White/Chartreuse. Going back on Friday morning for some top water action.
That's the report.
Jay
By the way, the red collared bead on the clouser is made prior to adding the colored bucktail. The material is UV knot sense. Rotating the fly in a Nor-Vise for true rotation.