Mike Lewis
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Super awesome Mike! Are you burning a laundry hamper there? Did you eat any of those Kings? I’d be curious to know how the freshwater lake versions taste.
Zach
I kept the first two from the Manistee to feed the family with, we cooked it a few different ways – the best being marinated in a bit of low sodium soy sauce with some spices, covered in Peach Preserves and cooked over indirect heat over a charcoal grill. Not quite as good as Alaskan…. but not too shabby.
It was an old wicker basket laundry hamper – and it went up quick!
Tim – I hadn’t heard much about steelhead moving in yet, I think is was a few weeks early.
Roy – we usually go up twice a year or so, but a 950+ mile one way drive with baby is limiting me to one trip in 2013!
Good job on the rescue.
Having done various types of striper fishing over the last 15 years or so (river, lake, ocean, live, cut, lure, fly), I would say based on my experiences, gut hooking a fish is considerably more likely when using live bait over cut. I have seen a few dead ones gut hooked and tangled in the water over the last few years on the hooch.
Also of note in the Hooch live bait ban is a limit of one active rod per angler – I think this is a very important component rule as well.
I’d say enforcement has been pretty good this year, I’ve been searched once on and once putting in the water by rangers who clearly knew and were enforcing the rules. Compared to previous years not too shabby.
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Above are my latest offerings. The rainbow got fished pretty hard Sunday, great movement and look in the water, not a bite.
That being said, It’s been rarely fishable in the rivers I normal fish with all the rain, but I have gotten to try out the patterns at least.
I think the side to side motion comes with a tapering cut down the fish. I use all 4 sizes of fish spine, and two hooks, so it’s actually 6 segments. You could cut off the rear hook barb if desired and if you had strong cutters.
Congrats again on the fish Jay.
Zach,
I’m not sure there is really any solid proof that these fish are spawning successfully, but I have caught some real small stripes a handful of years ago. Can’t find a picture unfortunately. I haven’t personally witnessed spawning attempts in the Hooch, but have elsewhere in GA as Gary mentioned.
As for fish topping out at 20 pounds, I don’t think so. I’ve seen a few over that this year and took this picture of of my buddy in July 2010 of a 43″er (no accurate weight, but charts would indicate it is a bit over 30 lb http://www.stripers247.com/striped-bass-length-to-weight-chart.php). It was caught on a topwater plug on a pretty heavy bait caster. In an area you fish very often. Sorry for the low quality, right at dusk.
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I’m really liking the looks of this boat as well, super cool.
I have the same questions Zach does. PM is fine if you don’t want to post the $
Also, the jet cavitation plate – is this a necessary extra needed to run an outboard with the jet foot? Is it boat specific?
Thanks!
Got into a few white bass yesterday in the upper Coosa-Etowah drainage basin. Scouted this area twice before but this was the first time I tried fishing it. Took my canoe with the trolling motor and explored around a bit before I started to catch a few fish. From what I heard the bite was a bit slow but consistent, we caught 8 white bass and 2 spots. All on bladed flies or spinners. Pretty nice day to be out, really looking forward to when they turn on!
Mike do white bass eventually make their way all the way up the Hooch to Morgan Falls? I had only ever heard of a run on the north end of the river, out of Lanier.
Zach
I caught two white bass about five years ago just south of 285 on a mepps spinner. This was late April-early May.
Some guys I know in the neighborhood were fishing live small minnows over
I haven’t figured it quite out yet, but I think the ballfields as a starting point up to the shoals makes the most sense. I haven’t done the state park (chattahoochee bend) down float but would like to.
Very light reports I’ve heard on the hooch near Franklin and Coosa near Mayo.
No luck in the place or two I have tried.
Probably a week or two more I’ve gathered. I hear the sustained winter will make them run more at the same time when they do, improving the catch rate for that day rather than spreading them out.
Looking forward to catching a few myself.
Zach, I’ve been scouting some places for the near future. I think there are some good spots within an hour or so of our neck of the woods. If the first weekend in March is warm I’m going to try a few. Been tying some mini-coyotes for them.
I got into a run of them a few years ago on our neck of the woods on the hooch…. never seen them again in that density.
