Greg and I braved the weather this past Wednesday to get out and try our hand at Captain Tom's tactics. We watched the radar and NOAA warnings but thought we could get out and miss the storms. I thought it might be a bad sign when an oldtimer sitting in his pickup by the dock said, "testing your luck?" We let it roll and man did we hit the jackpot. Greg drove us to a ledge that he and I found a few weeks ago and sure enough saw fish on our fish finder. We put the rods in and out came the fish. They were at a decent pace but a little on the small size. So we headed to our spot south of Fort Carroll, where we did well last weekend. The screen lit up! We couldn't get the fish off the lines fast enough. We caught 3 Stripers to every 1 White Perch. We easily caught a hundred fish between the two of us. The action continued for almost 2 hours. We had some bigger sized Stripers, at least 10 coming in over 13 inches. I broke my leader twice and lost two Hopkins spoons on what we think was a Ray and maybe a large Striper. Unfortunately, I was having issues with the drag on my rod which I had too tight...ohhh well it's much easier to shrug off when you caught over one hundred fish!
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