4-22-11

Today I guided Dan and Bill for stripers. We met at 5:45, launched the boat and headed up river. We did not go far before we stopped and got anchored up. Within minutes we caught a couple of  keepers and then the waiting game began. We sat tight for about an hour and as it started to get light it was evident that the water had risen a couple of feet and turned chocolate brown. We were not having much action so we headed up river to see what we could find. We were getting bit at every spot that we stopped but all of the fish were small so we kept traveling up river. We went as far as the Maxwell pumps and caught a fish here and there but not the big numbers that we had been catching. We decided to head back down river to the first spot that we fished and it turned out to be a good decision. We fished the hole for 22 minutes and landed 13 keeper stripers, keeping 6 for the box. We headed in with limits of nice schoolie sized males in the 3-8 pound range. It was a little tougher fishing today, but I am sure it will be hot again as soon as the water clears. I am headed to the hills for a couple of days but will be back on the water Monday.

Casey