Gsp 5/12/12
My bro in law and I dragged our fishing sleds out to the gsp at 7 am and stayed till after 4 pm. I used predominantly cast-netted threadies, he used shiners. We caught around a dozen bass (my biggest was around 3 lbs), a lot drum up to 24", a few cats, some big 15+" white bass, and he caught a 5-6 lb striper. Decent day, but the wind made it tough to fish near the mouth, and I was marking a lot of bait there with a lot of fish in the bait schools. I caught most of my fish about 2/3 of the way up the channel, and got a lot hits on down lined shad in the mouth. I didn't take my usual menagerie of rods, so I wasn't equipped to fish the way I wanted to. Free lining shad near the banks worked on the bass and drum, but the cats, whites, and stripers were on the channel edge near the 12-14 ft depths. I saw one guy flyfishing in a gheenoe, which made me yearn to break out the long rod after a long hiatus. If the winds work with me next weekend, I will have the long rod out with me (ANY wind makes fly fishing in a kayak a pain).
If anyone saw me out there, here's a "hello" to you, and hope you had the same or better luck than I did. I was in the blue kayak, my bro in law was in the big green one.
Chris
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