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Old 10-21-2018, 07:16 PM
tennarl tennarl is offline
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Originally Posted by agelesssone View Post
Here's when you know the fishing is tough on Priest.
Six boats with seasoned veteran fishermen of many, many years on Priest, in a tournament for six hours for hybrids/stripers.
Three boats blanked, no fish to weigh in.
Two boats with one fish, one boat with 2 fish.
These guys have been fishing Priest for at least 20 years each.
So, if you didn't catch anything Saturday, don't feel too bad, even the pros had a tough time of it.
And most of the boats were out prefishing on Friday because I was out on a guiding trip and saw them hitting all the likely spots. I had to adjust my fishing because a lot of them were on spots that I wanted to fish.
Some days it's catching, some days it's fishing.
I wish I would have saw this post. I went today -- water was 67/68 mid-lake. I spent 5 hours beating the bank and caught nothing but a 7-inch smallie. I saw zero shad outside of a few balls out in the channel. Heading back to the ramp, I made one last stop, a deeper area that produces during the summer. Tied on a 5XD and boom, a 5-2 largemouth. Spoke to a friend who fishes Guntersville who said it still basically late summer pattern. My best days on Priest have come late October. Based on today, we still two weeks away??? Frustrating but still a very peaceful day with only a handful of boats.
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