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About 60% of US Anglers practice catch and release.
Women make up about 33% of fresh water anglers and
about 85% of fresh water anglers begin fishing at 12 years old. |
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Jeremy A.Cad... 40 lbs Grouper |
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| Jeremy A.Cadovius, 26 |
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Aug 5, 2003; 09:20PM - LAKE GASTON
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Category: Freshwater Bass Fishing Tips
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Author Name: Steve vonBrandt/S&K Guide Service
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Author E-mail: swvbbass@aol.com
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Tip&Trick Description 1:
Lake Gaston'
Lake Gaston is located in both Virginia and North Carolina. It is a large lake of 20,300 acres. Many professional and amateur tournaments are held here each year, so it receives a good deal of fishing pressure. This is where we competed in the Regional Finals for the Red Man Tournament Trail in 2000. The main species of fish in the lake are largemouth bass, striped bass, and black crappie. Other species include some walleye, chain pickerel, white perch, bluegill, and catfish. The main forage base is composed of alewife, gizzard shad, threadfin shad, and herring.
Lake Gaston has relatively stable water levels, and high quality water. There is a good population of largemouth bass, with many large fish available. Most of the bass we catch at Gaston run around 15 inches and about 1 1/2 pounds. We have caught numerous 5 and 6 pounders and some larger fish were caught in the finals. In fact, some of these fish were 8 or 9 pounds. The lake record is 14 pounds 2 ounces, so there are plenty of big bass left in Lake Gaston. Gaston's striped bass fishery depends mainly on stocking. Many striped bass are caught each year that weigh 3 to 8 pounds, but plenty of 20 pounders are taken each year. The walleyes are doing good at Gaston also and many trophy fish of 8, 9 , & 10 pounds are caught.
The striped bass make a spawning run each year up to the Roanoke river in April and May. Lake Gaston has a variety of structure also, such as submerged bridges, stumps, submerged roads, and lots of grass in the summer. Most of the water flowing into Lake Gaston comes from the Roanoke river. The visibility in the lake usually ranges from 4-8 feet, although heavy rains can make it muddy. There is a thermocline in Gaston in the summer at about 20-25 feet. In the summer, oxygen levels are low are far down as Great Creek. The bottom is sand and gravel with some flats covered in silt, and clay hillsides. The shoreline is mostly wooded, with some high slopes. North Carolina Power and Virginia Power owns the entire 350 mile shoreline. There are lots of docks, rip rapped banks, and brushpiles. there are really a lot weeds, including elodea, milfoil, and hydrilla. This is especially true in the creek arms and coves, with the deep weedline at about 10 feet. They do treat the grass and also have added some grass carps.
The best locations for largemouth bass in the spring (March & April), are the northside creeks, especially Pea Hill and Lizard. They normally turn on first as soon as the water temperature reaches about 50 degrees. The next places that turn on is the southside arms, especially Lees and Poe. We like to fish these areas around the boathouses, rip rap, and laydowns with a chrome / blue rattlin Rapala and a Colorado spinnerbait. We stick to the structure that is in the 5-10 foot deep water. Bass here start to spawn around April 15th, and last till around June. The other areas that can be real productive are Pea Hill and Six-Pound Creeks. Sometimes we use floating worms, and wacky-rig them for some hot action. Another method that works good in these areas is soft plastic jerkbaits. During the tournament, and at other times also, we really caught most of the better fish on these baits. Fin-S-Shads were our top producers. Lake Gaston is known for a good topwater bite. You can really get into some decent bass in these areas on buzzbaits and poppers also. Even Zara Spooks produce well at times.
Later in the year, about June, the largemouth like to relate to classic bottom structure like humps, points, and stream channels, or even large beds of hydrilla. These hydrilla beds produce large bass as well as numbers until about September. We usually probe the deep weedline with a Texas-rigged worm or Yamamoto grub. The 'SENKO's' also produce well here. Usually in the mornings and at dark, we twitch jerkbaits over the top of the hydrilla, or even throw buzzbaits.
If you like to fish structure, then the main lake points at creek mouths like Pretty Creek are good. Another good spot that has bass on humps and drop offs is Hubquarter and Lyons Creeks. The 15-20 foot deep area are best, as that is where most of the baitfish are. Carolina rigged lizards are a good choice, as are for worms, 'SENKO's' and grubs. At times, we catch good fish here on deeper crankbaits as well. The water starts to cool off a lot in October and November, and the bass start moving back to the 5-10 foot deep water. The best areas at this time are Jimmie's, Lizard, and Six-Pound Creeks. We use a 3/8 to 1/2 ounce jig at this time, with a black/blue or brown/orange 'Uncle Josh Pork trailer'.
We like to carry several spinning rods for the lighter lures, in different lengths, from 6-61/2 feet, with a medium action, in a good graphite rod such as a G Loomis. We like Shimano reels, spooled with a 8-10 pound Stren. For baitcasters, we carry a variety of rods, in 6 1/2 to 7 foot lengths, in a medium/hvy action, and a crankbait rod, in 7 foot. We use Lew's and G Loomis rods, and Shimano Chronarch reels on most outfits, with 17-20 pound test Stren.
Steve Vonbrandt
S&K Guide Service / Life member B.A.S.S./N.A.F.C./B.B.R.C./ 1998 B.B.W.C.DE
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Jan 25, 2009; 12:44PM - OCEAN-TAMER Marine Grade Bean Bags
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Phone: (941) 776-1133
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City: Palmetto
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State: FL
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Country: USA
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Dec 29, 2003; 11:27AM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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Author E-mail: gmlandrum@hotmail.com
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Report Description:
Capt George Landrum
Fly Hooker Sportfishing
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
CABO SAN LUCAS FISH REPORT FOR DECEMBER 21-27, 2003
WEATHER: This weeks highs were in the mid to high 80’s and the lows were in the mid 50’s.
We had some heavy cloud cover during mid-week but it cleared up by the weekend and things
were just great afterward. No rain of course, but the humidity has been heavy enough to require
windshield wipers in the mornings. The wind has been almost non-existent in the mornings but
around 10 am it starts to pick up and by 3 PM it is blowing nicely from the north-west at 10-12
knots.
WATER: The Pacific side has been 75 to 77 degrees this week with the temperature dropping
a little lower on the west side of the San Jaime Banks. On the Cortez side of the Cape the
near-shore water temperature, out to three miles, has been from 72 to 74 degrees while just
outside that it raises to 77 degrees. There was a band of warm water, up to 80 degrees, around
30 miles to the southeast all week. Surface conditions on the Pacific side have been good with
slight swells most of the week until Friday afternoon when they suddenly reached 6-8 feet. The
late morning winds brought on a bit of chop starting mid-day. On the Cortez side the conditions
remained good all day.
BAIT: Bait of the week has been Caballito, as normally happens with the new moon. They
have been the usual $2 per bait and there have been Sardinas as well at the normal $20 per bucket.
FISHING
BILLFISH: This week was pretty much a repeat of last weeks report, at least as far as the
Marlin were concerned. The only change is that the Marlin bite that was happening on bottom
fished live bait ended as the fish and the bait changed locations. Of course no one has really found
where they moved to yet. There was very sporadic action on Striped Marlin this week, with lucky
boats finding a fish or two on the surface and getting them to bite, but most boats were lucky to
find a Striped Marlin to toss bait at. The fish that were found seemed to be to the south of the
Cape. The bite was a pretty even mix of jig strikes and bait bites. A few boats returned from a
days work with several blue flags flying, but most of them had nada.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: You really had to travel and work hard to get into the Yellowfin this
week as they remained well offshore and scattered. Most of the fish found were 30+ miles out,
where the water changed temperature. I thought that the temperature break we have had around
the Gorda Banks would be holding nice Tuna, but the cool water coming from the north is green
and bleeds into the warm water so that there is no defined color break to fish. The fish that were
found were football to school size and darker colored lures worked on them.
DORADO: I have to say that it appeared that Dorado were our fish of the week as the yellow
flags seemed most abundant on boats returning from a day of fishing. The concentrations of fish
that were found last week under pieces of wood are now gone, but some of the fish must have
decided to stay in the area. Most boats were able to scratch up a Dorado or two during a day’s
outing and the fish ran the range from small 10 pounders to nice 25+ pound fish. The larger fish
were found off shore while near the coast the smaller fish were a little more abundant. The
favorite (and best) method this week was slow trolling live bait out around the rocky points.
WAHOO: This week most of the Wahoo flags that were flying were really for Sierra, but there
were a few boats that actually caught Wahoo. The fish were found on the Pacific side out in 300
feet of water while looking for Dorado and the average size seemed to be around 40 pounds. Not
a lot of fish of course, but they were there.
IN SHORE: Just like last week, Sierra, small Dorado and a few small Roosterfish pretty made
up all the inshore action this week. With the Sierra bite picking up, a lot of the Pangas that were
going well off shore last week stayed closer to the beach to ensure their anglers got into fish.
NOTES: I hope everyone had a great Christmas and has a safe and prosperous new year as
well. I know that I will be enjoying the warmth and sun as some of you just dream about it and
hope that you have a chance to come and thaw out in Cabo! |
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