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Phish
Joined: 22 Aug 2008
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Location: West Hartford
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 Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 12:56 am Post subject: Wylie 7/21 |
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Fished Lake Wylie in South Carolina a little today. I was working, so I wasn't the one doing most of the fishing, but I was able to get the line wet a few times.
Water temps were high 85s to 90.
Air temp topped out at 87.
Partly cloudy
Fished in 0-2 FOW
We prmarilly targeted docks and wood today with cranks, poppers, a wake bait, and a Kelly Jordan (Lucky Craft) topwater prop bait. The fish were pounding the shallows chasing shad and spawning brim. The guy I was working with caught fish on all of the above and probably had 18 pounds for his best 5. I caught 4 for 9-9.5 pounds. Best was 3.5 on a popper just off the bank next to a dock piling. Caught a 1.5 on the Rick Clunn wake bait and a 2.5 pounder on the KJ prop bait.
Amazing how many fish were shallow in the heat of the summer. |
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slimecoat
Joined: 09 Nov 2007
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Location: Newington, CT.
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| Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:15 am Post subject: |
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Nice report Phish, way to fish and work at the same time. How does that work anyway? What line of work are you in?
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Phish
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| Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 12:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Outdoors entertainment industry. |
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MarkO
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| Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Man Jed, it must suck to be you, LOL. How fast where you retrieving the wake baits? |
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Justin Tralli
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| Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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| That sounds like a blast of a time Jed! Im jealous as heck!!! That's the kind of job I was as soon as I finish school!! See you saturday bud!! |
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Phish
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| Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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Well it certainly helps fuel the passion!
I varied the retrieve on the wake bait. I was fishing it around and over wood, so I'd run it fast, then stop it, twitch, then run. It got taken at pretty much a full waking retrieve about 3 seconds after hitting the water. |
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Cappy Jr
Joined: 22 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 10:00 am Post subject: |
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Nice job Jed. I hope you got to use the custom Loomis i made for you.
Al |
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