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I arrived at the lake at 3:15am and still didn't make it to the turn, I was facing north rather then south towards the gate. They opened early and I picked up some NC's and headed to the launch. On the water at 6:30.
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It was all that crowded at first but changed.I fished the dam area but couldn't buy a bite. Shoreline people yelling at boats and tubes, couple of real JAB-BAGS. (On the lakes site I saw a couple of them with full baskets of fish) 100 feet is less the 35 yards, NUFF said. So I head back to the launch ramp for a pit stop around 9:00. As I head back out one of my poles gets fouled so I just drop my PM and start to work on the other pole, 16' deep 59^. Hook up to my first TW and get it all the way to the net and it snaps my leader. Turn back around and I am metering fish and second hook-up, same thing to the net and snap. Loosen the drag again and keep working from the courtesy dock to halfway to the buoy. I finally land two, one of them a TW.
I hear a ding from my phone telling me that I received a text and my pole goes BENDO, this is the strongest FW fish that I have ever hooked into. Line is peeling and I am kicking to catch up, I retrieve some line and then for 45 minutes I am fighting. It never breaks the surface just stays deep, at times right under me. The pole is 7.5' and it is bent completely over. I never saw what it was but when it shook it's head I could feel it. I started at 10:44 and the 4# line finally broke at 11:30. I had to strip hal of the line off of the spool because it had stretched so much that it would just curl up as it came off of the spool.
The bit died for awhile so I kicked down to the buoy and my NC pole finally looks like I might have a bite, it was a very small BG lipped so I throw him back.
The lake is glass now so I just go back to the ramp area and catch my third trout. All trout were caught on a Carolina 12" or so leader w/ rainbow PB and a pink shad PW. Total weight for the (3) trout a little over 7 LBs.
I saw the guy catch that 17# monster at the dam area in a boat.
A totally different kind of "fishermen" AKA JAG-BAGS, so I will not be going there for these kind of days. I saw lots of good size fish being caught from the shore and out on the water. I had a good day after I got away from the zoo at the dam, relaxing and adrenaline filled with that 45 minute fight. I just wish that I could have seen what it was.
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It was all that crowded at first but changed.I fished the dam area but couldn't buy a bite. Shoreline people yelling at boats and tubes, couple of real JAB-BAGS. (On the lakes site I saw a couple of them with full baskets of fish) 100 feet is less the 35 yards, NUFF said. So I head back to the launch ramp for a pit stop around 9:00. As I head back out one of my poles gets fouled so I just drop my PM and start to work on the other pole, 16' deep 59^. Hook up to my first TW and get it all the way to the net and it snaps my leader. Turn back around and I am metering fish and second hook-up, same thing to the net and snap. Loosen the drag again and keep working from the courtesy dock to halfway to the buoy. I finally land two, one of them a TW.
I hear a ding from my phone telling me that I received a text and my pole goes BENDO, this is the strongest FW fish that I have ever hooked into. Line is peeling and I am kicking to catch up, I retrieve some line and then for 45 minutes I am fighting. It never breaks the surface just stays deep, at times right under me. The pole is 7.5' and it is bent completely over. I never saw what it was but when it shook it's head I could feel it. I started at 10:44 and the 4# line finally broke at 11:30. I had to strip hal of the line off of the spool because it had stretched so much that it would just curl up as it came off of the spool.
The bit died for awhile so I kicked down to the buoy and my NC pole finally looks like I might have a bite, it was a very small BG lipped so I throw him back.
The lake is glass now so I just go back to the ramp area and catch my third trout. All trout were caught on a Carolina 12" or so leader w/ rainbow PB and a pink shad PW. Total weight for the (3) trout a little over 7 LBs.
I saw the guy catch that 17# monster at the dam area in a boat.
A totally different kind of "fishermen" AKA JAG-BAGS, so I will not be going there for these kind of days. I saw lots of good size fish being caught from the shore and out on the water. I had a good day after I got away from the zoo at the dam, relaxing and adrenaline filled with that 45 minute fight. I just wish that I could have seen what it was.
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