July 1st, 2011
Smith Lake
After one of my toughest nights on the lake in a while, I got a call from a client interested in fishing Friday night at the last minute. So, I loaded up and headed to the lake. On my way I kept thinking how tough Thursday was, and with even more pressure who knew how the bite was going to be. With it being a last minute trip, we met at 7:30pm and got going by 7:50pm. With all the boats on the water, the lake was rocking with almost every bank having a 20 yard section of dirty water. With about 30 minutes before the sun went down we started long lining 1oz. and 1/2oz. roadrunner bucktail jigs. On our first pass, as we were about to turn around, his rod bent over and line started running. As I reeled in the other line his fish kept making strong runs. It was a 13 pound stripe. It hit the 1oz. bucktail in white/chartreuse with a chartreuse 4" curly tail jig trailer. We picked up two more in the next 5 passes, one weighing 5 lbs and the other 7 lbs. By that time, dark was on top of us. We picked up two more stripe under the light, the biggest weighing 5 lbs. We caught a couple crappie but they seemed to still be real picky. The bite was ok being July 4th weekend. Much better than the night before.
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