Finally got back out, Oh what a day!

 DP holding a nice limit of Stripers

 

When you see this and have fresh live bait out

the results are below.....

 

 Total Chaos.....Every rod went down and we had to throw the fish into the boat and grab another and another. Rods and fish scattered from one end of the boat to the other. This is just a pic of the front of the boat! Since it was early in the day we released all of these Stripers and they all happily swam away. We left this school and went looking for other patterns.

 This is a school of Crappie on the left and some predator fish on the right .

 

 One of many Bass we caught today. A couple 

were Citation size. Would have been a massive stringer.

 This is a great shot from my Simrad, probably one of my most favorite shots that I have taken on the unit. I have the screen up top in Green on Side Scan. We had located pods of nice Stripers very deep in the afternoon in little depressions in 50 to 60 feet of water. After seeing numerous pods like this we put downlines out 2 to 6 feet off the bottom and hit some of the pods. The bottom 2/3rds of the screen is my echo page which on the left side I have on bottom lock showing the bottom water column up to 8 feet off the bottom. The right side of the screen is regular sonar set to a 50 foot scale. On the right you can clearly see all my downlines being pulled just off the bottom. Then towards the extreme right we come upon a pod of Stripers. Immediately all the lines get hit and you can clearly see us fighting the fish as we reel them up toward the surface. Notice all baits hook up! Chirp sonar is INCREDIBLE! With chirp I can monitor all my lines and bait off of one transducer in the rear of the boat. The separation and clarity is off the charts! I can actually view my baits swimming in fifty feet of water. The baits swim up and down as you can see on the bottom lock. When they get around fish they swim frantically until they meet their maker. We boated the eight fish DP is holding in the top picture off of this set, took a picture and called it a day. I popped the screen shot when all 8 rods were bent over. We were lucky to boat all the fish without loosing any or tying any lines up.

WOW, I am still high after a trip like that.

DP with the smallest Bass of the day.

Global Warming

March 6th, half the lake is frozen, coldest February I can remember. All boats clean, 50 rods and reels oiled and new line, trucks serviced, canceling charters. This is getting old. Only good thing is the house is 74 degrees. Feel sorry for the Stripers, once the lake thaws they won't stand a chance. I will be out every day hunting them down. Maybe next week.................!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Come on Spring

Cold

I could not stand it any longer hanging around the house so yesterday afternoon around 1:30 I hooked the boat up and headed for the lake. I put out at a private ramp downlake and rode around just seeing what I could see. I started off heading to the dam and 3rd dike area where I found the warmest water naturally, 48*. I went up to the 2nd dike and the water temp dropped to 44*. The pockets on the north side were the same. I went on up to Dukes [42*] then up to the mouth of Sturgeon where it was 39* with the backs of all the pockets frozen. No need to go up any further, too cold for me. All the upper lake is still froze. Hopefully some warmer weather will bless us soon so we can get back in action.
I popped a couple of screen shots yesterday, they are as sad as the weather is. I couldn't find anything worth stopping on in the few hours I was out. It was so disappointing I got off the water around 4. The upper shot was taken down by the dam. Although I did not fish these I am assuming the school of fish on the left are punk Stripers hanging around a ball of small baits. The vertical stack of fish on the right may have been white perch. In the bottom picture I was checking humps out downlake and found Bass hugging the hump in 20 to 30 feet of water. You can see them on the right hump. You can click on the picture to enlarge it if you want. Again, pretty boring but I had to get out. Looks like the rest of the week will be a replay of the last 8 weeks. Unstable.

Lowrance Gen 3 HDS-7 Bundles now available

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Cabin Fever

 This shot is from Stonewall Estates up by Tim's Restaurant

 

 High Point Marina

 Down lake side of Holiday Mill Bridge

 522 Bridge over North Anna

Uplake Side of Holiday Mill

Like everyone else I have been sitting inside for the last couple weeks waiting for the weather to break. I have had to cancel/postpone 8 trips due to wind, cold and or ice recently. I popped a couple of pictures today around the lake. Basically the lake is frozen solid to the splits. From the splits to 208 the main portion is open in places where the wind breaks the ice up. Patches of ice are in the main lake down to Sturgeon. All creeks that I looked at were frozen to the main lake. The backs of the down lake creeks were frozen as well. If you can find a place to launch a boat be careful running, there are patches of floating ice through out the lake with the exception of main lake below the power plant. I saw ice thicknesses ranging from 6 inch up and in the backs of creeks to over 3 inches at the 208 bridge in coves. Once the weather breaks I will be back out on the water making up for lost time.

There is one good thing that results from a freeze like this. In all the years that I have been fishing for Stripers on the lake whenever the lake freezes like this fishing the following spring and summer is incredible. Most of the Threadfin die off giving leaving biomass levels down increasing catch success. The fisherman simply does not have to compete with so much bait giving us a better chance to catch fish. Last fall there was so much bait fishermen didn't stand much of a chance catching Stripers, they were full most of the time! I had to actually work areas with no or little bait nearby to catch Stripers. This year will be different.

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Reply to Sunday's "What do you think" post

A few days ago I put a screen shot up asking viewers opinion on what they were looking at. I have been posting screen shots on my journal for many years now to help anglers try to understand.....
A...What is going on in the shot and how to interpret what they they are seeing
B...Help fisherman to see and understand what their units are capable of
C...Setting up their units to work properly for the conditions they are fishing
D...General support to Lowrance and Simrad owners
E...What they are missing not using this technology
F...and mainly to give confidence to anglers that they can go fishing and by using a good Depth finder and understanding what they are seeing they can go to any body of water and locate fish, establish patterns and Catch fish.
That being said hopefully I am helping some of you and here the answer to what is on the screen.

  That day fish were pretty lethargic and the only fish that we could pattern well were deep. In this shot I had the boat over 48 feet of water pulling downlines at 40 feet deep. I am using Chirp on my Simrad which shows incredible detail. I tend to use Chirp more when fishing deep and broadband fishing shallower. Lets start off near the bottom of the screen. Remember, I am Chirping which gives me more separation and vivid pics. The bottom shows up on most of the screen as reddish brown highlighted by a bright light green line. The more solid horizontal Brown/green marks are Stripers. The thinner horizontal brown/green lines are my lead sinkers. The squiggly lines near the bottom is my bait that we were using swimming up and down. The more to the center of the cone angle the more pronounced the image is. As the image gets out to the edges of the cone they appear less dense because the signal is less strong. The numerous diagonal lines are White Perch swimming up to feed on a school of 3 inch Herring that are near the surface. The screen moves from right to left, what is happening currently under the boat is on the right side of the screen and as the screen scrolls to the left it becomes history. Therefore the Perch are swimming up toward the surface, not swimming down. Some viewers thought I emptied my bait into the water and they were swimming back down towards the bottom. If that was the case the diagonal lines would start under the school of bait and they would go from the bait to the bottom toward the right side of the screen. Some viewers thought we were reeling in a bunch of Stripers, I only wish that was happening in the picture. I have posted some shots of us reeling in fish in previous posts. Thanks for your opinions and enjoy my future posts. If anyone has questions about Lowrance or Simrad units let me know. If you don't want your questions viewed on the net you can email me at Jim_Hemby@hotmail.com. Lets all hope this weather breaks soon so we can all get out and enjoy boating and fishing.

Some more Simrad Screen Shots

 In this pic we are over 45 feet of water and have our down line baits set between 25 and 30 feet deep. You can see four baits being pulled through the water [ Horizontal lines] and a fish comes up from near the bottom and hits a bait. The fish initially pulls the bait down about 3 feet then we gain control and reel him up to the boat. This Striper does not appear to be very large on the screen but it was a solid 5 pound fish. The fish was out to the edge of my transducer signal and showed up very week on the screen. The closer the fish are to the middle of the ducer cone the stronger the signal appears on the screen.

 In this pic we had located Stripers between 40 and 50 feet deep so we deployed our baits to that depth. You can see four of our baits traveling from near the surface going down to 40 feet. For each bait we put out you can see to distinct images. The more solid signature is the lead sinker and the dotted lines is the baits swimming down. Once the baits are locked into place the sinker stays at a constant depth and you can see the bait swimming up and down on the screen. At the right side of the screen the four baits are in place and the sinker signature is stronger.

This shot was typical of what we saw all day long. We would locate a few fish here and there, nothing ganged up. I am motoring at 4.5 mph looking for fish. Notice a hump on the bottom about a third of the way across the screen. A couple of nice Stripers are suspended above the hump. They may not look too big but I was moving fairly fast. If I was going the speed I fish at they would have showed up larger. About 2/3rds of the way across the screen is a stack of White Perch. They also are suspended. They stack vertically this time of year unless they are feeding, then they will streak. Just before I come up onto this ledge there are a couple more fish. None of these fish in this picture were feeding.

What do you think?

For the last few years I have been posting screen shots on my journal. I wanted to see if anyone has been watching and /or learning from these posts. I popped this screen shot yesterday from my Simrad. Other than a beautiful screen shot can you tell me what is going on in this picture? Let's have some fun and respond back to me with your opinion on what is happening here. I would like to hear from my clients, followers of my journal and facebook, other guides, TV show producers, pro's and friends, other than yesterdays clients [they already know]. Respond on my journal [by commenting], facebook or forum sites. I will repost the picture later in the week with a detailed explanation. Thanks for your responses. Enjoy!

Working hard for Stripers

Dwayne, Ralph and Eric

Cloudy and Pleasant, Water Temperature 41 to 43* and Clear

I got out very early this morning to catch bait and picked the guys up at High Point at first light. The moon was very bright last night which made bait collection tough and fishing today even tougher. We fished hard today and ended up with these nine keeper Stripers. We also caught a few punks and Largemouth. I am hoping the weather will warm a little and stabilize somewhat. All these fronts are messing the Stripers up and making them difficult to pattern. The weather is calling for 65* tomorrow and 16* on Friday???? Go Figure!!! Today we caught fish in 50 foot of water and in 8 feet of water. I am getting really close to patterning these Stripers, I got it narrowed down to 42 feet???? The lake was frozen from Dillard's all the way up at 3 pm today.

Simrad and Lowrance Screen Shots

 This is a Simrad screen shot of a school of 8 inch Gizzard Shad with a Striper just to the right of it. The water temp is COLD and the shad are grouped very tightly. You can see a couple Gizz on the outside edges of the ball of bait. This bait ball is very dense and is depicted by the intense yellow in the center of the ball. Anthony threw on this school and caught enough bait in one throw to go fishing for the day. When I see this on my Simrad I do not fish in the area, fish are not feeding and I will catch O. If that bait was broke up and scattered throughout the screen I would pull baits through it and catch Stripers.

 This is a Lowrance shot of a school of Largemouth Bass. They are relating to the drop off hugging the bottom stacked on top of each other. We dropped a bait down to the Bass and hooked up. It might have been a different story trying to catch them on a spoon or artificial bait, the fish here are not aggressive. If they were more aggressive they would have been higher on the ledge and up on top of the hump. We had our sensitivity up real high here that is why there is so much noise in the pic.

 In this Lowrance shot we are pulling baits at 22 feet deep. Fish had been congregating between 20 to 28 feet deep all day that is why we had our baits set at that depth. You can see the Stripers "stacked like cordwood" right on the bottom. Again, these fish are not in an aggressive mood. We did pop 2 or 3 here but only because we had our baits in their eyes and using live bait. If they were feeding all 10 rods would have hooked up. You can also see fish on the side scan screen. These fish were punk Stripers.

In this Simrad shot the Echo page is showing fish from 20 to 28 feet deep again as it did all day. There is something on the bottom at 22 feet. If you look at down scan on the bottom right side of the screen it is pretty obvious what you are looking at. You can see fish relating to a piece of structure on the bottom. It is obvious that it is a brush pile that they are relating to. We caught Stripers on the deeper side of the brush and Largemouth on the shallower side of the brush. I did not get a pic of the Bass because we were fighting fish at the time. You can also see our Navionics map in the upper right side of the screen. You can see all the breaklines and an obvious tip of a point that we are approaching. We are the black boat in the pic and I have a couple waypoints that I had marked the brush at in previous trips. The white on the map is our Depth Highlights. We highlighted 20 to 24 feet and Navionics automatically shows it on the entire lake that way. When we think fish are in certain depths like they were today we use this feature on the map. It makes it soooo simple to keep the boat in the productive areas enabling us to catch fish almost all day long. When the Navionics map is zoomed out it is clear to see the path you want to keep your boat in. We were pulling down lines and boards with split shot keeping the boat in the "white" area of the map concentrating our down lines in the productive depth but with the boards we were able to cover water 40 yards either side of the boat allowing us to work depths from 10 to 50 feet deep all day.  Today's technology makes my fishing easier and more enjoyable. Simrad and Lowrance are the obvious "Bomb". They show me what is happening under and around my boat. They are my eyes. Without my eyes I can not fish. Imagine doing anything without eyes. If your eyes are not 20/20 you get glasses to see. If your equipment is not seeing 20/20 you need another prescription. Simrad and or Lowrance is the answer. Navionics is my map. It guides me to the areas that I suspect fish to be holding. With one foot depth increments it tells me in advance where fish should be and guides me to them. You see, I paid for a guide [Navionics] and reap the benefits from it every day. My electronics work for me, they should work for you as well. If you need new Glasses or a Guide, go to Greentop Sporting Goods. Thomas Harris is the best in the industry when it comes to Navionics and Steve Lane is the Guru of Electronics. I am not trying to get you to spend money. Heck, you already have buying a boat, a vehicle to tow it with, a place to keep it, rod, reels, tackle, etc. Your time has to be valuable to you. Complete the package. Go to the water with the tools you need to make the most of your adventure. If you want to catch fish and are not happy with your results, this could be the final key to your success!

Ever Wonder ???

Stole this off of Mike Smedley's facebook page.

Next time fishing is slow I will start looking in my clients coolers!

Why Shouldn't I Bring a Banana onto a Fishing Boat?

Otter Friday, December 05, 2014

Almost all old boating and fishing superstitions originated centuries ago on huge sea-bound merchant and fishing vessels. Over the years, many of them have made their way inland to the rivers and trout streams of the Colorado Rockies. One of the more common and also misunderstood superstitions is this: it is bad luck to take a banana with you onto a fishing boat of any kind.

I am writing this because I see it happen from time to time. An innocently uninformed customer will manage to sneak a banana past my vigilant eyes, and the unlucky snack will make its way aboard the drift boat before a day of fly fishing. After witnessing the consistent calamity and bad luck that follows, I am convinced that it is not coincidence, but consequence.

The ultimate test came this fall during a FeakNFish float trip on the upper Colorado River. To simplify a long story, not a single fish was hooked or seen until after lunch when the banana was discovered and thrown overboard. Almost immediately we began catching fish, and were able to bring in a good day's worth of above average sized brown trout. You could say that the sudden change in productivity was due to rising water temperature or some other change in conditions, but I firmly believe it was the banana. According to old tales, we were lucky things weren't worse.

Birth of a Superstition

Stories of banana induced misfortune date back to the early 1700s in the Caribbean sea. Many of the wooden sailing ships that carried bananas had to travel quickly in order to get the fruit to its destination before spoiling. Crew members that were trying to fish along the way caught little due to the boats speed.

Another explanation is that when another ship came upon the scene of a deadly shipwreck in the Caribbean sea, many times the only visible sign of trouble were the floating cases of bananas bobing up and down in the open ocean. This led to the superstitious belief that the bananas themselves were to blame for the lives that were lost.

Probably the most reasonable suggestion is that bananas provided a way for venomous spiders to get on board the cargo ships, and eventually expand their territory to the crew’s living and dining quarters. Spider bites could not be treated easily at sea in the 1700s and many became fatal. The deaths were again attributed to the bananas.

No matter the accepted reason, here in the 21st century, bananas are still forbidden on most recreational fishing vessels. Offshore captains in the Gulf of Mexico and the Florida Keys have been known to even include Banana Boat sunscreen and Banana Republic clothing in the list of things not welcome aboard.

Things are a little more relaxed here on Colorado’s western slope. I can’t say that I have ever noticed an impact from the wrong brand of sunscreen or clothing, but the presence of the fruit itself has definitely ruined some potentially great days of fishing. Superstitious or not, every angler should think carefully about his or her potassium intake before climbing aboard any fishing boat, even if it is a drift boat on a trout river in Colorado.

Andy “Otter” Smith, Guide and Content Writer

A few screen shots

 

Someone asked me what a catfish looks like on the bottom recently. Using High Chirp you can see a Catfish right on the bottom to the left of a couple Stripers. This screen shot was taken off of a HDS-12 eathernetted to a Simrad NSS12.

 

This is a school of Stripers on a 40 foot flat outside the power plant.

In this shot we are scanning 120 feet out either side of the boat. On the left the bottom is barren.
Out to the right side of the boat 70 to 120 feet from the boat is a bunch or rocks. Without Structure scan an angler would have never known the rocks were there. A simple touch to the screen over the rocks would have placed a waypoint on the rocks that you could revisit at any time.

Some more Simrad screen shots

 This is a shot of a typical Largemouth pattern in the winter. Bass are hugging the bottom

nearby an irregular feature. At Anna it doesn't take much for Bass to relate to. We caught 2 Bass at once here, both were 3 pounders.

 This is a cool pic here. On the bottom is a school of Stripers. We were easing off of a 25 foot
flat and hit Stripers at 35 feet.You can see 4 of the baits [long horizontal lines] we were pulling between 20 and 25 feet deep. There were 2 rods on the back of my boat and 2 rods eight feet in front of the other 2. The lower bait gets hit and the fish pulls drag as it heads for the bottom. Once I noticed the school I slowed the boat down to about a quarter mile per hour. The baits dropped down into the fish and they got jammed. We needed more help here reeling in these fish than we had on the boat. Guess what type of fish these were????  Wrong.....Largemouth Bass!

 I had left my Navionics card in my Lowrance that I was demoing at last weeks boat show so I had my map on Insight. The sonar page is showing a couple fish at 22 feet. It also shows some of our baits being pulled through the fish. The squiggly line near the bottom and then rising to the surface is a fish we were fighting for awhile. It made a run to the bottom then we tired it out and could reel it to the boat.

In this shot we are over 50 foot of water and had been pulling baits around 25 feet deep [2 horizontal light lines]. I noticed the fish were deeper and not rising up to attack our baits so Anthony dropped a down line [vertical line] down till I told him to engage the reel. Three seconds later he hooked up.

These fish relating just to the bottom with no irregular features around them are a pod of Largemouth. You can barely see 3 baits being pulled through the water column at 23, 28 and 32 feet of water. The bottom bait hooked up and you can see Greg fighting a 23 inch Citation Bass to the boat [ziz zag marks to the right of the Bass].

Depth Finders 101...

I have been off the water for 2 months. It was so foggy we could only see 1 boat length ahead of the boat for about 4 hours. I could not run to where I wanted to fish so we relied on our Simrad and Lowrance to locate fish for us. I idled out of the ramp and eventually started seeing fish. We simply put baits in their faces and started catching fish. Once the fog lifted we were still in sight of where we had launched. We caught all these fish in an area that I seldom fish. Why?????? because I trusted my electronics! 

Too many anglers own expensive Locaters and don't use them to their advantage. They fish the same areas every time they go out, they look for other boats catching fish or search for birds to tell them where the fish are. They call their friends up before going fishing asking "Where did you catch bait or where did you catch fish or where is Hemby, Cobb and Harris or some other good fisherman fishing".  You paid for the Depth Finders, USE them. Take the next step. Forget where you use to catch fish, fish move constantly. Don't look for other fisherman to sneak up on or fish their areas after they leave, go find fish for yourself. I guarantee you will become a better fisherman and certainly feel better about yourself  going out and locating your own fish. Fishing is so rewarding for the ones who work to find their own fish. Chances are you will catch not only more fish but bigger fish working areas that are seldom fished. If you need help learning how to use your depth finders get some friends together, book a trip , catch some fish and go away with the confidence to go out and do it on your own.

WE'RE BACK!

 Anthony holding up one of 30 Stripers we caught today.

 

Greg with a 23 inch Citation Bass.

 

This is one of 10 Largemouth Bass we caught today. We are holding it over the Simrad for a reason. People at the show kept asking me what Largemouth look like on my Simrad. Well, here it is. No, I am not being a smart a__ showing the Bass laying on the Simrad. If you look at the screen the fish on the bottom are all Bass. We hooked up on a down line when we went over them and I went back in my history to bring up the exact spot they were holding on. As you can see these Bass were not relating to a thing, just like Every Bass we caught today. Greg's Bass came on a planner board over 42 feet of water. At the same time we had two other Bass hook up. They were not relating to any structure. I took a couple screen shots that I may post tomorrow showing the Bass coming up off the bottom and hitting a bait 15 feet above it! It probably would have been a great day to throw jerk baits.

We each wanted to keep 2 Stripers today for a good diner so we kept these 6 fish and released all the others to fight again. I have been off the water for well over a month now [hunting and some good time off] but we're back and the fish want to eat our offerings. February is traditionally a great month to fish and a good month to catch Big ones as well. If you get cabin fever I have the cure, works every time. I will be posting some nice stringers of Stripers in the near future.

A cure for " Cabin Fever"

Well here we are. Hunting season is over, just finished the only show that I will be doing this year and getting my two boats ready to get back on the water this week. I enjoyed my time off but like many things in life all good things must come to an end. My guides and myself will return to the water this week, locating bait and Big Stripers. We met and introduced Striper fishing to a completely new clientele at the show, anglers who did not realize what a great Striper fishery Lake Anna has. I was surprised how many people were unaware that Lake Anna was a year round fishery with generous creel limits. Anglers can keep 4 Stripers per day per person over 20 inches. Some of the people that I talked to at the show did the math and said "Gosh, if I come fishing with you and bring 5 other friends we could keep 28 Stripers, that's almost as many as we kept all year fishing out on the bay". I told them we can't guarantee limits daily but the lake is definitely capable or producing nice stringers of Stripers. Many people were also excited about fishing on a calm lake versus contending with the rougher salt water places that they are accustomed to. Shoot us an email to Jim_Hemby@hotmail.com if you want to get out and try some winter fishing for Stripers, you will be glad you did!

Simrad Video

Here is fellow Simrad Pro Staffer

Mike Smedley 

spanking some Stripers after locating them

on his Simrad. 

Bass and Saltwater Fishing Expo

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Happy New Year

Chris, Bri, Amanda and Mike

What a way to bring in the new year! Guide DP took this hardy crew out yesterday for a great day of Striper fishing on Lake Anna. Although it was cloudy there was minimal wind which made the day even more enjoyable. They are holding 4 of the 22 Stripers they caught yesterday. Hunting season is finally over today and all of our guides will be hitting the water again to get dialed in on the Big un's.

Merry Christmas Everyone

Christian and Michael

Christmas is the day to remember Christ on his birthday.

May God Bless our Children and all the 

Men and Women in Uniform.

Merry Christmas

 

 

 

A Productive Winter Morning

Bill, Judy, Nancy and Richard

Friday, Cold and Rain, Water Temperature 46* and Clear.

DP picked this hardy group up at Tim's Friday morning and took them out for an action packed trip fishing for Stripers. By the looks of the bellies of these fish it looks like the Stripers have been feeding well. We are finally catching fish in their winter patterns now and the fishing should only get better. The recent rains have brought the lake up a little which will make fishing more reliable.

A day on the water with Anthony

 A beautiful tank of Big Gizzards

 Coming into a school of Stripers

 Anthony caught this one out of the school of Stripers pictured above.

Anthony [one of our guides] when not guiding would rather go fishing and catch 3 or 4 big fish than catch 30 or 40 smaller fish. He dreams about using big baits for big fish. He recently went fishing for a couple days in a row with a couple friends and they caught numerous fish up to 20 pounds. He was using some huge baits for this time of year and the bigger the bait the bigger the fish they caught. He is not looking for numerous hookups at once but in the pic below he had 4 teenagers hooked up at once.

Notice the history bar above the sonar. Anthony had been over this school for quite awhile.

If you want to catch big Stripers, use Big baits, find Big fish and have Big success.

This beautiful screen shot was taken on a Lowrance HDS 12.

Formula for Success

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