Ron's Fish Rag

Double limits sturgeon 10/25/09

Went solo today and I have to say, while I prefer to fish with someone, solo trips are always enjoyable nonetheless. Got a late start, but ended up with my lines wet by 0830. Fished with one rod using roe and the other grass. 55 feet of water, surface temp. 64 degrees.

First fish came on the flood at 11:30. A feisty little 47 incher; he took the roe bait.

At 12:30 the tide finally turned toward the ebb and I caught a 44 incher, which really gave me trouble because it was foul hooked about a foot up from the tail. Thought I had a striper at first and I was wondering if I was going to have to throw the float and go after it.

Last fish was a 46 incher that also went after the roe.The graph was really lit up all day. I also got two other shakers on the grass shrimp.

Started running my depth finder in split screen mode with one on 50 hertz and the other on 200 hertz. The cone angle on the 50 is real wide so that I am looking at a lot of territory. It's nice because you can get a general picture of the area. The 200 is real narrow so it tells you whether they are in the immediate vicinity or not. Been playing around with it trying to hone in on them a little better.

Another interesting thing is their apparent affinity for the roe. Last year I couldn't buy a fish on it.

Here are a couple of picts:

The 47 incher - tough to get a good picture when you are by yourself.

The 46 incher

 
 

B-Day Sturg

Lou and I headed out for sturgeon with an extra dose of luck given that it was my birthday. First thing in the morning a large flock of Canadian Honkers came right over the boat and one of them let the excrement fly, which turned to a kind of black spray that hit the boat bow to stern. The bird guano gods must have been smiling on me (Birthday) because I was not touched by the foul substance. My fishing partner was not so fortunate.

After the bird adventure we settled in to fishing the ebb tide with lots of fish on the graph, but we couldn't find any takers. We set up initially in 72 ft. of water and stayed there for about two hours until another fisherman came and anchored above us in our line. That was enough for me to make a move. I headed up into shallower water and quickly found a nice line of fish in 50 ft. of water. We picked up a shaker and a few rat stripers toward the end of the tide.

On the flood, the line of fish stayed constant, so we stuck it out. I was fishing roe today along with my usual grass shrimp. I had several nice pull downs on the roe and managed to connect with one that ended up an LDR (long distance release). Finally, an hour into the tide, I hooked up and landed a nice 49 incher, which I released. This fish came on the roe as well. That was it for our luck today. The wind picked up in the afternoon, but it was in alignment with the tide so it was not an issue. Great way to spend a birthday.

Pyramid Lake 10-9-2009

 Another great Pyramid Lake trip this last weekend. It was a real treat to have my wife Deborah as my fishing partner all weekend. Could not have asked for better weather. The quality of fish this trip seemed beyond the norm with many in the 4# to 6# range. Most of our luck came in close at the south end of Hells Kitchen and on into Anderson Bay. The chub were thick and the cutthroats were having their way with them. Hot lures for us are shown below with the frog patterns doing well in the mornings, fire tiger early afternoon and the red colors with black dots by late in the day.  Most of the fish came at 15ft OTW at 2.2 mph. Water temp was 62 degrees so the fish were fired up and ready to fight. Some of the guys were even able to do some vertical jigging this trip with success. A pot luck dinner was organized by the imhooked.com crew and I have to say the food was excellent!