DP's Lowrance

Guides DP and Anthony went out for a couple hours this morning looking for Stripers and took these pictures off of DP's graph. The top picture shows the Stripers between 24 and 35 feet deep.
The red horizontal line is his sinker being pulled through the school. The arches that are streaking either up or down are actually feeding fish while the other arches depict fish in a neutral mood. Needless to say they caught fish here.

JFHQ-NCRJ3 Annual Fishing Trip

Today was this groups Annual fishing trip to Lake Anna. Group participants were Mr. George Lockwood, Col. Shields, Angel, Michelle, Jerry, Al, Scott, Chris, Craig, Tamim, and Zimmer. Although fishing was slow today due to the bad weather everyone hung in there and had fun. Today we never found any huge schools but fish were scattered everywhere we looked. We would put the baits in the fishes faces but the fish had something else on their minds other than eating.

Summer Hogs

Cloudy and Warm, Water Temperature 82* and Clear.

I have been waiting for the water temperature to hit 80 degrees for the summer bite to turn on and catching 30 Stripers this morning before 8 o'clock ushered the season in for Tony and myself. We decided last night to go out this morning early, catch bait and fish different places where other boats and fisherman would not harass us. Most fisherman just don't realize that boat motors turn fish off [maybe not the punks but the nice fish will not tolerate motors or pressure]. As you can see by the Lowrance pictures we got on them and stayed on them this morning. The top picture shows 3 screens, the left screen is Bottom Lock showing the bottom quarter [10 feet] of the water column. The middle screen is traditional sonar on a 0 to 40 foot scale, the right screen is on side scan looking 80 feet out to either side of the boat. Stripers are the arches on the sonar and dashes on the side scan. The other 2 pictures I took bottom lock off the screen. As you can see by the top picture, there were hundreds of fish around us from 15 to 26 feet deep. Notice we were on concentrated fish but on the lower two pictures we got on larger fish on the outsides of the school. The fish were high enough in the water column to run planner boards and most of the fish in the picture with Tony holding the fish were caught on boards. The problem we had this morning was that we had so much action we could not get many baits out without hooking up. This time of year it is imperative to have at least 4 anglers on board to keep up with the action. I have 2 boats rigged and ready to accommodate  groups of fisherman. Call to set up a trip and get in on some of the best action of the year, summertime schooling Stripers.

Paul Henon and Sons.

Sunny and Hot, Water Temperature 80* and Clear.

I got out very early this morning , caught bait and picked the guys up at 5:30 at High Point Marina. Today we were looking for schools to put downlines on so I started looking with my Lowrance as soon as we left the marina. I saw broke up fish for about 15 minutes but I ran over a large school so we set up on them. We had some action and moved on. We would look for fish, set up on them , catch fish, loose the school and do it over and over again all day. We caught well over 30 fish today and Paul caught 4 Bass on downlines over 40 feet of water. The guys kept a mess of fish for a fish fry this Memorial Day weekend and released all the other fish to fight again. The picture of my Lowrance is one of the schools we worked early this morning. Paul took out his son and two son in laws today for an enjoyable day on the water before the weekend warriors hit the water tomorrow. 

This weekend is a weekend to remember all the men and women who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces.

Semper Fi

David, Lyle and Scott

Sunny and Cold front conditions, Water temperature 71* and Clear.

Guide Brian Mohr got out on the water early this morning, caught bait, picked his crew up and went fishing. He set out a spread of boards pulling 5 to 40 foot flats this morning. Fishing was slow due to the cold front but they had fairly steady action till the wind got out of control. Brian had to make a move to get out of the wind and caught a couple more fish before calling it a day. Looks like all of these Stripers have spawned.

Mark, Byron, Len, Anna Marie, Bill and David

Cloudy and Warm, Water Temperature 72* and Clear

We went out this morning at 4:30 and caught over 50 beautiful baits before daylight. We went and set out a spread of baits where there were no other boats within sight. We hooked up immediately and David reeled the fish in. We fished about 100 more yards then the next thing we knew there was a pontoon running circles out in the lake, we could not figure out if he was trying to swamp us or just spook every fish in that part of the lake. He eventually ran right over the flat we were trying to fish so all we could do was get our baits in and go elsewhere . We again found a area where there were no boats so we set our spread out and started taking hits again. We were getting numerous hookups but having difficulty getting them in the boat. We eventually got our act together and caught plenty of fish. Mark is pictured holding up his largest fish ever, a solid 15 pounder. 

Ryan, Aric, Zack, Brian, Bob and Billy

Cloudy and Pleasant, Water Temperature 74* and Clear.

We hit the water at 4:45 and went to catch bait. By daylight we had over 50 beautiful pieces so we took off and headed for an area where we could not see any boats. I set a spread of a dozen boards and a bobber out and proceeded to pull flats. We ran into an area where we started seeing fish on the Lowrance and for the next 4 hours we hooked up about once every 10 minutes or so. We fished the area till an Osprey started hitting our baits when fish would rise them to the surface and after it killing 5 different baits we had to get everything in and move. I went and filled the bait tank up again with bait and set up in a different area. I told the guys this spot could be better than the first area we worked. I had only gotten out a few boards when we started hooking up again. For the next 3 hours we duplicated this mornings action. We had quite the day, fishing was excellent and action was great. Once this afternoon a Striper was chasing a big Gizz up on the surface and next thing we knew a Blue Heron flew down and took the bait from the fish! We experienced it all today. The guys only kept a third of what we hooked up today, releasing the others to fight again. By the end of the day everyone was wore out and ready to give it up. Bob is pictured holding up a nice Striper while Billy is thinking "Why didn't I pick up that rod!"