Tom Hanlon, Gary Saur, Steve Bartlett, Ted Aposporos, and Alen Breon

June 24,2006 ; Cloudy and rainy, Water Temp 81*
Rain this morning while collecting bait, picked up clients and went in search of the ever moving Striper Schools. Took about 4 minutes to locate our first school in 34' of water. I instructed my clients on how to put the downlines down and we got 6 hits before the school moved off. Located another school , put downlines on them and caught a few more before we lost the school. By now my clients had the drill down and I put them on a larger school and we proceeded to wear them out. After about an hour and a half the coller was full, I counted the fish and we had kept 20 nice Stripers. We had 70 hits this morning, catching 35 Stripers and a few Cats.

Stuart Anderson, Norm Slattery, Mike High and Ronnie Manley

June 23, 2006, Cloudy and warm, Water temp 82*
Bad thunderstorms this morning while collecting bait, rain slacked off just before I picked up my clients at 5:30. Didn't get far from the marina before I found a nice school. Put downlines out, hooked up and got on the radio and called John and Danny in on the school. We all caught some before the school started to move downlake. I pulled up and found them again and called the other guys in. A couple of other bass boats saw us catching fish and ran in on us and spooked the fish. I pulled up and relocated the school again and again and again untill we ended up catching 35 Stripers and a couple of cats. Clients kept 20 Stripers for about 100 pounds and we were off the water buy 9:15.

Craig Munro and Stu Anderson

June 21, 2006 : Sunny and Hot, Water temp 81* and clear
Caught bait early today and picked up clients and went looking for Stripers. Checked up from the marina for an hour and only found singles. Finally found a school in 33 ' of water and put downlines on them, poped 3 Stripers out of the school and looked up and a boat that saw us catching the fish ran 30 yards from us and spooked the school. Tried with no success to relocate that school so I went downlake to look for fish. Found a few fish in 40' , put out lines and damn if the same boat followed us and started heading for us so I picked up and dodged him. Fishing was slow today although clients had 80 hits they boated 20 Stripers, kept 8 and a few cats.

Dan Whetsal and Jeff

June 20, 2006 : Party cloudy and warm, watertemp 80*
Cold front came through last night and messed up bait collection as well as fishing. Found only a couple of smaller schools today and caught alot of Stripers but most were punks. Clients ended up keeping 9 Stripers and a few Cats.

Clark and Ricky Jackson, Sammy Johnsonand Don Brown

June 19, 2006 : Sunny , Hot and Windy, Water temp 80*
Got out early again to catch bait and picked clients up at 5:30 am at the dock. Cruised for 5 minutes and located a nice school of Stripers in 30' of water , put downlines on them and got hit 35 times in 20 minutes. That school petered out and I looked shallower and found 2 different schools in 25' flats. Lost them and looked for 2 hours everywhere finding nothing and finished up the day running 25' flats. Clients had well over 110 hits, caught 25 Stripers and 10 cats, keeping 16 Stripers and 8 Cats.

Steve Burrill, Jimmie Richards, Elwood White, Killer Simms, Bob Bradshaw

June 17, 2006: Sunny and Warm, Water 77* and clear
Caught bait early and picked up clients at 5:30. Went uplake to search for schools but already their was alot of boat traffic on the water. Looked for fish for 35 minutes and could not see anything but small pods of fish so I decided to move to deeper water. Clients were very patient while I was looking . I couldn't put any large schools together so I just decided to keep looking till I found what I wanted. I burnt a half a tank of gas until I found some pods of fish so we put downlines on them and started to get hits. Action was slow but steady so we stayed with it . I knew fishing had to be tough due to what I was seeing on the depth finder and knew it would not get any better due to the boat traffic . I ended up using the rest of my fuel up looking for sparce schools of fish and hitting the schools when we found them. Clients ended up with at least 100 hits, catching 27 Stripers and 7 Cats , keeping 19 Stripers to salvage the day.

Gerty, Doug and Dillon Meyers, Lewis Watson

June 16, 2006 : Sunny and Pleasant, Water temp 76*
Caught bait this morning and picked up clients at 5:30 at High point Marina. Looked for 30 minutes on 30' flats without seeing much so I decided to move to deeper flats. Found a nice school in 36' of water , put out 8 downlines and the Stripers started jambing the Herring. We were doing great until 3 other boats ran right up to us so I left. Found another school and put down on them and started banging them and was doing well until 4 boats saw us catching fish and ran right up to me and spooked the fish. I have had enough of that so I picked up again and went to a place in the lake where no one could find me , found a school of Stripers and wore the fish and my clients out. Clients caught over 40 Stripers and kept 20 by 9:30 am to have a great day on Lake Anna.

Tom McFillen and Bobby Smallwood

June 15, 2006 : Sunny and warm, Water temp 76* and clear
Caught bait this morning and picked clients up at 5:30 am and went in search of Schools of Stripers. Looked for 3 minutes and found a nice school and put out 8 downlines, fished that school for 20 minutes catching 12 Stripers and 5 Cats. This school was in a deep channel bend so I went to the next channel bend in the river and "WOW", found a school that was 3 acres big stacked 25' tall. I told the guys to get ready for the fastest action of their life and tried to put lines out but the fish hit as soon as we engaged the reels. We caught another 15 Stripers in 10 minutes ! By 7 am we had caught at least 25 Stripers , clients keeping 12 of 'um . I overheard Bobby telling Tom " This is great, the moon is still out, it's 7 oclock, we have caught our limits and I can be back home to cut hay before the dew gets off the fields".

Matt Lynn and Alexis Contreras

June 14, 2006 : Cloudy and rain, Water temp 76*
With a huricane approaching off the coast I was not looking forward to today. Got up at 2am to catch bait and I am glad I did because bait was tough again. Picked up clients at 5:45 and went in search of schools of Stripers. I had 2 other boats on the water also helping me to locate fish but they gave up after awhile. I cruised for 2 hours looking for fish until I found my first school in 40' of water. We put downlines on them and went thru 30 baits in 10 minutes. Lost that school and looked on 40' flats and found another school and got hit another 30 times. Found another school in the back of a creek that had to be 5 acres big. All we could catch out of them were small stripers and cats. Went back to 40' flats and found yet another massive school and finished the day up on them.When all was said and done my clients caught at least 30 Stripers and a bunch of Cats and kept 12 nice Stripers.
PS. Alex now knows how to catch Stripers.

Senior Saghafi, Greg Marsh, Jeff Collins, Jason Munos

June 13, 2006 : Sunny and 82*, Water temp 76*
Had trouble catching bait this morning, could only catch very small baits. Picked clients up and searched for schools of fish and bait with little success. I knew it would be tough today due to the full moon last night with bait not coming to the lights and fish feeding hard the night before in the bright moonlight.We checked the areas that I caught fish yesterday with no luck. I decided to go to deeper flats in the 40' range and started hooking up. We ended up with over 100 hits catching 25 Stripers and 10 cats, clients keeping 14 Stripers for the day.

Geo. Sutorka, Jeff Sadler, Bob Hargis, Twyman Hunt

June 12, 2006 : Rain and cold, Water temp 76* and falling
Got on the water at 3 to catch bait, pooring down rain, set out lanterns to attract herring and had poor luck catching bait. Had 50 baits by daylight and picked up clients at the dock. Didn't have much confidence in the day with the cold front moving thru but I gave it my best shot. I looked for schools in 30 ' flats with no luck and after 1 hour moved to 25' flats and found them. After 30 minutes we went thru our baits and spent the next 2 hours looking for additional bait. We burnt $90 of gas today looking for fish and bait but it paid off with great results. When it was all said and done, we caught a 24" Walleye, 3 Bass pushing 7 pounds, 25 Stripers and a dozen Cats.

Gary, Jeff, Earl and Steve

June 10, 2006 : Sunny and windy, Water temp 77*
Caught bait early again today and picked up clients up at the dock at 5:30 am. The wind was howling blowing in a cold front and I thought it might be a tough day. Looked for 20 minutes and couldn't find any schools but John called me in on a small school he located at the marina. We worked it for awhile with limited success. Never did find any feeding schools today but we did locate a major school in the back of a creek. Clients had over 100 hits today, mostly small Stripers and cats and ended up keeping some nice Stripers and a Walleye.

Jim and Brian Garner, Tom ,Shawn and Ryan Hess

June 9,2006: Sunny and Warm, Water temp 80* and clear
Picked ckients up at their dock this morning and went in search of a school of Stripers. Took only 5 minutes to find a school of at least 1000 fish, put downlines on them in 35' of water and before we got 8 lines out the action started. Within 1 hour we hit 3 different schools of fish catching Stripers in all of them then Wham, they disappeared. Didn't matter though because we had 50 hits and the kids had a ball. Clients caught numerous Stripers and Cats and kept these 10 beauties for dinner.

Tom McFillen and Bobby Smallwood

May 8, 2006: Sunny and 80*, Water clear and 78*
Got on the lake this morning at 2:30 and caught Herring, picked my clients up at 5:30 and went in search of Stripers. We hit 2 or 3 schools right out of the box on downlines in 30' of water . The fish bite was good until 9 am then it slow down. We went to 22' flats to finish out the morning and ended up getting 70 hits , catching 30 Stripers and Cats, clients keeping 12 Stripers. The Stripers are feeding best in the early am then seem to shut down.

Bill, Dino, Hugh and Sal

June 4, 2006 : Sunny and Beautiful, Water Clear and 78*
Had trouble catching bait this morning but managed to catch 100 pieces by the time I had to pick up my clients. I picked up my clients at 5:30 and found a school of Stripers and within 2 minutes after leaving the marina we had fish on. The Stripers were frantic and as soon as the baits hit the water we got bit. We probably had 30 bites in 10 minutes ! We fished downlines on 30' flats today and the fish cooperated until the boat traffic got up around 10 am. Clients ended up keeping 14 Stripers after getting at least 70 hits.

Cory, Benard, Russ and Greg Bane

June 2 2006: Sunny and warm, Water temp 74* and clear
Ran Herring on midlake flats in 30' of water today on downlines. The fish cooperated all day with clients getting 120 hits. Lost count of how many Stripers and Cats they caught but clients kept 16 Stripers for the day.

NV HOMES Company Party

Matt Lynn, Kristina Dolack, Frank Dennis, Henry Chavez, John Snead and James High

May 31, 2006 : Sunny and hot, Water temp 80* and clear
Had company party today and needed two boats to accommodate 6 people so John and I got on the water at 3 am to catch herring. Picked clients up at 5:30 and headed out to locate some school of fish. John found a small school in 28 ' of water and called me in and we proceeded to wear them out. We had constant action for an hour , each boat having over 50 hits catching about 20 stripers and a dozen cats. We decided to leave that school and go collect some Gizzard Shad to run on downlines for the rest of the day. After catching bait , I located 2 more different schools of Stripers and called John in and when it was all said and done our clients had well over 200 hits for the day, keeping 17 Stripers and numerous Cats. We lost count of how many fish we released today. The water temp has risen 8* in the last 4 days and has put these Stripers on the deep flats positioning themselves to be caught using downline techniques. For the next 2 months we will catch 50 to 100 Stripers a morning.

Billy, Jeff, Lance and Beau

May 26, 2006 : Sunny and warm, Water temp 70*
Got on the water at 3:30 am this morning to catch Herring. Picked up clients on their dock at 5:30 and went in search of deep fish. Found a school immediately and put downlines on them and as soon as I could get them out they got hit. Went thru 15 baits in 2 minutes putting only cats in the boat so I decided to move and locate other schools of fish. Found another school in 30' of water, got 3 lines out and hooked up before I could get out any more lines out. Landed a nice Striper , looked at the depth finder, it was black with Stripers, then was informed by one of my clients nature was calling and had to go. We left for a few minutes, came back and the fish were gone! We fished thru the day , went back to the first school we found and caught a lot of Stripers and cats. We also caught a very nice bass in 40' of water. On the way back to the marina we ran over a huge school of stripers and put what baits we had left down on them and finished out the day. Probably had 75 hits today.

Doug and Donnie, Richard and Stud

May 24, 2006 : Sunny, Water clear and 67*

Ran flats early with limited success then went in search of fish on deeper flats . Found Stripers on 22' flats and ran Gizzards on them on downlines catching a bunch of big cats and some nice Stripers along with a Walleye.

Frank Lindsay,wife, brother and sister in law

May 23, 2006 : Sunny and cold front, water 67* and falling
Picked up clients and went searching for Stripers in the same locations of yesterday with no success. The weather front had changed everything and shut down the bite of the day before. We fished probably 15 areas and burned up a tank of gas looking for fish. After a hard and cold day of fishing, we caught enough fish for a few dinners.

Robert and Bobbie Lanning

May 22, 2006 : Sunny and pleasant, Water clear and 69*
Got on the water at 3 to catch Herring and went to the dock to pick up my clients. They called and had overslept so I went out to find a school of fish. I found a school 2 minutes out and put 5 downlines out and hooked up on every one. I boated 4 stripers and a cat . Murphy's Law, clients are late and fishing is Great. Went back to the marina and waited for them to arrive. Picked them up and went back to the area and guess what? The fish moved. Anyway , we found fish just about everywhere we looked today . WE had 130 hits by 10:30 and had to catch more bait. We lost count of how many fish we caught but we had a great day.

Bootsie, Paul and Skip

May 17, 2006 : Sunny and cool, Water clear and 68*
Got on the water at 3:30 am to catch Herring this morning anticipating a downline bite today. We ran 20 to 30' flats and had probably 25 hits but most of the strikes were short. We caught 2 very nice bass on channel bends in 35 foot of water. They were post spawn fish and in good health. Clients kept 7 stripers and a couple of cats.

Bootsie, Paul and Skip

May 17, 2006 : Sunny and cool, Water clear and 68*
Got on the water at 3:30 am to catch Herring this morning anticipating a downline bite today. We ran 20 to 30' flats and had probably 25 hits but most of the strikes were short. We caught 2 very nice bass on channel bends in 35 foot of water. They were post spawn fish and in good health. Clients kept 7 stripers and a couple of cats.

The Heater Bachelor Party

May 13, 2006 : Sunny and cool, Water temp 67*, Clear
Had party of 8 for bachelor party today so I took 4 people out on my boat and John took out the other 4. Had a late start due to a little too much partying the night before but we got out and caught bait and wet some lines. John and I both ran flats in the mouths of uplake creeks using planner boards. Stripers were hitting short and prefered the Gizzards. We had numerous hits but at least on my boat we had plenty of hookups but could not put them in the boat. Fishing was slow but we managed to catch a few fish . Between both boats we caught 12 stripers[alot of shorts] and plenty of cats. Both boats caught Stripers over 10 pounds. Grooms wife called all day worried about the Groom geting 'Racoon Eyes' .

Newton Morris and crew

May 12, 2006 : Sunny and cool, water temp 65*

Ran Gizzards and Herring on planner boards today starting off on shallow flats in 8' of water moving to deeper flats later in the day with limited sucess. Went to channel bends and ran downlines catching a few more stripers and cats along with a nice bass in 40 ' of water.

Chad, Tom, Bob

Dave Jones, John, Earl Custer, Ted Weimert
May 6, 2006 : Sunny and 75*, Water Temp 64* and Clear
Had a group of 10 friends to go out today so we took 3 boats out , mine, Johns and Allen's. The morning was extremely foggy and all the boats had problems getting to their destinations so I pulled up on a shallow flat and proceeded to run planner boards with both Gizzard Shad and Herring . Immediatly we started getting hit on the larger gizzards over 15' of water. We probably could have caught a lot more fish but due to the fog other boats kept running over us and spooking the fish. After the fog cleared I went uplake and caught more Gizz and set up on channel points . We caught a few more fish and caught a 11 pounder on a herring on a board. Being a Saturday boat traffic ran us off and had to seek another location away from the traffic. We fished the edges of a 14' flat and continued to catch fish. We ended up with 26 hits, clients kept 10 Stripers and 3 Cats.
John fished uplake points and caught his fish primarly on Herring and in the afternoon moved midlake to finish out the day. They kept 6 Stripers and 5 Cats. Allens crew caught a few Stripers and a Walleye.

Ted, Matt, Mark and Wendell Presley

Friday, May 5, 2006 , Sunny, Air Temp 80*, Water 64*, clear
Caught Herring under lights before daylight, picked up clients and caught gizzards and went fishing. Ran mouth of creek with 10' flats nearby , had a couple of hits . Moved to 8' flat and ran planner boards and started putting fish in the boat , mostly on Gizz. After the sun got bright we moved to 20 ' flats and continued to catch fish. Had 30 hits, clients kept 15 stripers for 78 lbs, 3 catfish.

Clint Heflin, Buck Covington, Jeff W.

May 4, 2006 : Sunny and 78*, Water Temp 63* and clear.
Started off the day running boards and downlines with both gizzards and Herring in depths from 5' to 20'. Has limited success and moved to main lake points where we started to nail the Stripers. We caught fish on both baits but the nicer fish were hitting larger gizzards on planner boards although we did catch a nice Walleye on a Herring. Later in the day we moved to 20' flats and caught fish on downlines. Ended up the day with 32 hits, clients keeping 10 Stripers, a couple of cats and a 5 lb walleye.

Senior, Alex and Sam

April 21, 2006 : Cloudy and cool, Water temp 59* and clear
Caught bait early and ran points uplake with limited success. Move Midlake and ran boards on flats in 8 to 18' catching fish on both Gizz and Herring. Had 18 hits, clients kept 8 Stripers, largest 27 ".

Tyler, Dick and Scott

April 19, 2006 : Sunny , Water temp 60* and clear
Ran Gizzard Shad on planner boards and Downlines on 15' to 22' flats , Had 18 hits, clients kept 7 Stripers for 40 pounds, largest fish 9 lb.

Jessie, Don and Don

April 18, 2006 : Sunny and Windy, Cold Front, Water Temp 57* and clear
Ran mouth of uplake creek early and hit the flats and points nearby catching a few Stripers then later moved to the river and caught fish on points on Planner Boards with Herring. Had 21 hits, kept 8 fish for 40 pounds and 2 catfish.

Craig Ganoe, Trevor Shifflett

April 11, 2005 : Sunny and chilly, Water Temp 48* and slightly stained
Ran both Gizzard Shad and Herring on Boards on 8' flats early in the day, moving to 15' flats after the sun got bright. Caught fish equally as well on both baits and by the end of the day clients had 20 hits, kept 12 Stripers and a big cat.