Pacemaker Fishing Forum

Got on the water about 545 at the foot bridge.  There was one guy fishing on the rocks there.  He caught a striper right after I launched.  He kept it.  It looked too small to me.   I headed up towards where the pipes cross and lodged the kayak against some rocks.  I started with a white spinner bait and it was only a few casts before I had something big on.  I decided against letting it pull the yak and I underestimated it with regards to drag.  It ended up breaking off.  About this time four guys in a boat were coming upstream.  They pulled up on the other side and started fishing the rapids area. I only saw one of them catch a fish the entire day.   I started throwing a zara spook to see if I could get a topwater bite.   A few casts of that and I had a nice LMB hit it just 15ft from me, but it didn't stay on. 

I tried a bucktail, swimbait and more spinnerbait for awhile but nothing was taking it.  So I decided to go back to the truck to get the perch I forgot to bring.  I went back to the same spot and rigged a white perch on my heavy duty rod with 55lb braid.  It was only minutes before it was getting tapped.  I let it run with it a bit and then set the hook.  It was on and I was getting dragged all over the place.  I had no idea what it was, but it sure was big!  Eventually I got to the other side of the river so I could get out and deal with it more easily.  No way I wanted this thing in my lap.


29"  17lb
Compared to my just about 1y/o nephew






This was the biggest largemouth I caught.  15" I think.


I caught a total of 4 LMB, all on senkos and each was smaller than the previous.


I had a total of four cats too.  The others were 3, 5 and 6lbs.  I was out there until 1045 and the LMB and cats were still biting.  Plently of fish breaking the surface, just not the stripers I think.  I did see a gar though.  The flow was noticeably less than last weekend.