First Plugging Trip 3/13/14

My dad called me and said lets go fishing. He didn't care too much to squat and rot for sturgeon with me so we set off for B&W to try for some striper action. Later

start to our day got on the water around 1330. Made or way to the Moke right off the bat just to see how things were. Stopped at my two favorite points and was greeted by some pretty stained water. Visibility was only a few inches at best. I have seen it worse, but it was not good. Tried it anyways but no luck. Made the run down to False river and worked the area here. We hit tules, pumps, rock walls, throwing swimbaits, rattle traps, spoons, and spooks for a whole lot of nothing.

We did start marking fish along rocky points so we stuck to those hoping that we now knew what to look for we just needed biting fish. Made our way further and further down river hopping from point to point and finally I stick one on a jerk bait.

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No monster, but its a start and finally feeling a tug on the line was great. Kept throwing the jerk bait and I missed a couple of other hits and stuck one more shaker.

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After that the tide turned on us and threw off the small bite that we had. Kept looking up and down false river and a few parts into franks tract. Even made the run out to the main river and tried trolling for a while. Marked lots of fish, but way to much debrie to get a good troll. Hit all the points we marked fish on at sun down hoping they would bite now, but they did not. Back to the ramp at dark and ended our day.

Not a lot of action for us, but it was a beautiful day on the water and it felt great to get back out there. I haven't been fishing nearly enough lately and its been pretty depressing. Hope to be back soon.

Till Next Time Guys
Mark