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On 22 Dec 2005 09:26:49 -0800, wrote:

JohnH wrote:
On 22 Dec 2005 09:12:09 -0800, wrote:

JohnH wrote:
On 22 Dec 2005 05:16:15 -0800, wrote:

JohnH wrote:

Perhaps Bill was just trying to be friendly. Are you hoping to get anything for your
boat for Christmas?

Not really for the boat, but I get quite a lot of cool fishing gear
most years. Last year my little girl picked out a gift for me without
any input from mom, it was a Bass Pro Shops ceramic coffee mug. I use
it every day.

I wish someone would give me a gift certificate for new brakes, wheel bearings,
master cylinder, and anything else my trailer needs!

wow....Maybe I'll wish big like you.....hell, I wish someone would give
me a give certificate for a new Nitro bass boat!!

I'm not going to put in much time between Xmas and New Years, so I may
get to the lake a couple of times to go stripper fishing. They're deep
and slow, but can catch them on live shad, blue back herring, trout, or
shiners down lined...

Try to be extra gentle with the herring. They have feelings, unlike ordinary bait
fish.
--
John H

Even the blue back ones? Seriously, I don't use them very much, they
die pretty easily in my livewell, I don't have a big circular one. They
aren't native to Lanier, they got "introduced", and have populated to
the point where DNR now allows them as bait. They have made Lanier one
of the premier bass fisheries in the southeast, though....

Hell, I didn't even know they came in different colors. I know they're used for
salmon bait, and have even caught a couple of nice salmon with them. Will you be
live- lining them?
--
John H

Yes. Stripers are cold and deep here, so you put out a few rods with
your favorite live bait, I like trout minnows. I go to my usual
locations, and then slowly maneuver around watching the fish finder,
and if I find a school, put Mr. Trout down at the same depth as the
fish....I always keep a rod ready with a 1/4 ounce bucktail jig, if the
stripers are chasing bait, and the bait comes to the top to try to get
away, you can start throwing the bucktail in the middle of the
commotion and possibly get one that way. You can fish for spotted bass
here in winter, too, as well as smallies and largemouth, but they are
deep, too.

We use bucktails a lot here, also. Here we call it 'light tackle jigging' or LTJ for
short. I've not had good luck with the technique. Usually it's been too windy, or I
couldn't find the fish, or something (lack of experience is probably the root cause).
--
John H

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