4-29-11

Today I guided Leo and Pete for stripers. I decided to head South today to see what was down river. We launched at Ward's Landing and headed South. We stopped South of Lovey's Landing and wormed a couple of rock walls, but the fish were not there so we kept moving. The lovely North wind started ripping by 7:00 AM, so we gave up on the worm and put on minnows. As we reached the bottom of the Red Sea we started getting bit. Leo was the first to strike and Pete was closely behind. We kept moving down the wall when we got into the big school and had a triple hook up. We made 6 more passes in this spot resulting in 4 more triple hookups and a couple of doubles. When the fleet of boats hit I again headed South to see what else was down there. We hit all of the likely spots on the way down and they all were holding a few fish. We fished down to Grimes and then headed back up stream. On the way back up we stopped and trolled a couple of rock walls and managed to pick up another 6 fish. We ended the trip at 11:30 AM having caught more than enough keeper sized fish. Leo caught the biggest fish of the day which was a 10 pound hen that was released. It was constant action all morning and we had a great time.

Casey