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Delta dock fishing (Read 325 times)
Bass Chaser
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Delta dock fishing
Aug 30th, 2009 at 7:31pm
 
Fished a dock in Disco bay in the mornings and evenings Tue even/Wed/Thurs morn.  I tried plastics initially but was getting nothing so I actually used my brain instead of my usual senko, senko, senko, dropshot routine for once (which I tried to no avail). 

Morning bait (while lmb/stripers were breaking the surface chasing baitfish):
1. floating brokeback rapala in trout pattern.
2. stickbait with a black back and less shiny golden/mustard sides.

Morning (post-breaking):
Rat-L-Trap in shad with a red lower head.

Evening (before the sun went down):
Spinnerbait in chartreuse and black

Evening (after the sun went down):
Back to the broke-back rapala, luckycraft $15 stickbait that snagged and I lost on first cast.

I was catching the most fish in the mornings, a few each on the rapala and stickbait, but once the lmb/stripers stopped busting they were NAILING the Rat-L-Trap.  I had about 10-15 hits and landed 5 fish on the Trap.  I lost what would have been my personal best when it jumped out of the water to show me it's 7-10lb body then dove into the weeds, got hung up, then got lost  Sad.  But it was the biggest LMB I'd ever hooked up with and this trip was the first time I've really built confidence in fishing anything other than plastics.  All in all a good trip considering most days I was busy being water lice with my company.
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Re: Delta dock fishing
Reply #1 - Aug 30th, 2009 at 7:56pm
 
Nice work.  Sounds like the baitfish must be back in the bays.  Any size to the Stripers or they all still dinks?
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Reply #2 - Aug 30th, 2009 at 8:15pm
 
Sounds like you had fun plus you used your head and offered them something knew for different times of the day.
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Re: Delta dock fishing
Reply #3 - Aug 30th, 2009 at 9:55pm
 
great way to catch bass when It is hot or just about anytime and it provides both shade and cover.  Nice report.
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Re: Delta dock fishing
Reply #4 - Aug 30th, 2009 at 10:32pm
 
Good report Bass Chaser- I need to use my brain instead of grubs,grubs,grubs.
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Re: Delta dock fishing
Reply #5 - Aug 31st, 2009 at 9:00am
 
civicrr, yes the baitfish were in, running from lmb/stripers in the morning, jumping for bugs in the evening.
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