Moke 3/28/13

Back to the Moke for another striper session. Brought Ethan and Steven with me today. Wanted to try for a few crappie before we went for stripers though. On the water close to 1500 and ran down to beaver and met Kevin down there and started jigging. Not even 5 mins we found em. Nice having the knowledge of where they were last time and they were still here.

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Ethan with his biggest

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Steven's first crappie, another cherry popped!

Worked the area for a

couple hours. Bite was a little slower today, but we still probably boated 20+ fish.

After that bite kind of died we went off to find some bluegills for striper bait. Didn't take long either red worms in sunken trees they are there. Filled the live well with a bunch of them and took off. Did one drift with the bluegill on the south fork for nothing. Moved over to the North fork. First drift 5 mins into it I saw a school pass by on the FF and sure enough my rod goes off I swung high and had the first striper of the day only to have it pop off 30 seconds into the fight. No more love here. Next spot, hit a point where I've been getting them the past few trips out. Dropped the bluegills down and I started throwing a Super Spook. 2nd cast I stuck a nice looking schoolie and after that the bluegills came up and we all worked the top water bite hard.

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My first.

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Ethan's first of the night. First striper of the year I believe for him.

For a week or so now I've been trying to explain the amazement of top water to Steven. Showed him a couple video's on youtube and explained it to him, but its not the same until you experience it. He hooked into his first throwing the Zara Spook and man seeing that excitement in a new fisherman on their first top water fish is awesome. Why I love taking out new people and introducing them to this amazing sport.

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Second cherry popped of the day!

We worked em for a little over an hour with constant action.

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Double for me and Ethan

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Got to show them some love.

Sorry for the blurryness, I'm blaming Steven on this one for not letting the camera get into focus.

Stayed till dark (way too late, but who could leave a great top water bite like that?) and ended with probably a dozen stripers to the boat. Made it back safely and anxious to get back out to do it again.

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Our take home fish.

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Ethan couldn't resist taking a jackass shot.

Great day on the water. Loving the new boat!!! Can't wait to get back at it again.

Till Next Time Guys
Mark