Pacemaker Fishing Forum

We sent straight to the backwater pads to try and catch the last bit of high tide as it was starting out.  Third cast with the toad and a hit.  A little too fast on the trigger.   A bit later,  as a toad is being retrieved,  from right to left a wake comes at the toad but,  again a quick trigger finger loss.  As we are coming out of a cut in the pads,  a long cast is made to the far mouth of the cut.  BAHWOOSH!  What a strike...but too quick of a hookset and all that fish is, is a memory of the big snakehead that we were after.   Skunk off the boat with a nice, fat yellow perch on a chatterbait.  Then,  a confidence bait comes out.  Good ole Senko.  Started putting bass in the boat with pretty much a dead stick presentation.  We ran down to a  great low tide pad/grass edge for the O' Shadow thirty bite.   It never happened.   One spooked fish and a nip or two.  Snakehead bow hunting boats started prowling the edges and we called it a night.  A couple of good fisherman and pretty nice guys from Richmond.  Thanks guys.








Capt Dave