11-24-2006 Riverpark Slaughter

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MrWiskers

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Well AlvinC and I went with Jimmy again this morning. We started at 8AM (missed you MB and FA) and fished until 3. The fish were very active today and we ended up with 47 in the boat with another 10 or more lost on the way. About 95% of the bass came on tubes with a few on jigging spoons. We only caught about 10 smallies with no size like the ones from Tuesday. The river was covered up and we fished behind a boat for the first 2 hours. Lets just say they left about 20 behind them. As a matter of fact the bank we caught most of our fish on was fished by at least 5 other boats today. You could not tell it as the last pass we boated 15. Unreal. The weather was perfect today and I am sure there will be more posts coming.

The last picture is a smallie with no nose. Funny looking fish. No real tissue damage just looks like his snout did not develop.

I almost forgot, we also caught about 10 yellow stripe, 1 drum, and about 5 large bluegill. Not too bad.
 
That's some nice fish. Hopefully there won't be a long line at the ramp for us in the morning.
 
Bigger ones will be posted tomarrow.. </p>

Looks like ya'll had fun today! See ya in the morning!</p>
 
fischnrod - 11/25/2006 2:53 AM

How do you rig those tubes MrWhiskers?

Today I was using a 1/8 oz tube lead head. The only drawback is you have to re-tie to change tubes. AlvinC and Jimmy had theirs rigged texas style. I think the exposed hook of the lead head gave me a bettter hook up ratio and I did no loose many fish after hookup. We all got hung up about the same as well.
 
Nice going guys. You definitely had a better day than I did. I went alone and managed 7 smallmouth with one close to 3lbs but not the hog I was after. He will bite sooner or later though.
 
Good job MrWhiskers! That smallie looks like he got drop kicked in the mouth tho. I have seen a couple of fish from down there like that.. Don't know what causes it but they are still a fighter! thanks for the report..emoThumbsup
 
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