Chovyboy
Well-Known Member
I took my father and youngest son up to Ticaboo Canyon to camp out and fish for a few days to enjoy the beautiful weather. We fished around camp for a few hours and found a school of small stripers. They eagerly took our spoons. But it was a long day so we quit fishing early, and hung around camp and made plans to look for schools of larger fish Sunday.
His name is Thomas, but somehow he ended up with the nick name Tuna, so here is Tuna warming his toes on “Tuna Beach”.
Bear stew and fresh baked bread for dinner and it was an amazing night with no wind.
Sunday morning my son couldn’t resist messing with bluegills while we made breakfast.
After breakfast we went hunting for schools of striper. We struck out all morning in red canyon and blue notch. We had anchovies and were looking in all my usual spots for schools and saw nothing. In fact I barely saw any shad. I decided to push further north around 3:00 and man am I glad we did. As soon as we turned around the horn we saw a huge boil. We chased boils till 6:00 and left them boiling to go clean fish. The boils would last long enough to catch around 2 fish per man. The boils were popping up from the horn all the way up past four mile canyon.
Cleaned and fried some fish and had another awesome night at camp with no wind.
Monday morning we set out for the horn with hopes of chasing boils all day. Unfortunately they didn’t boil again all morning. We trolled all the way up to two mile with little success. But we did find a few striper jigging anchovy, and we caught probably 30 catfish.
Shad were on the surface everywhere, but no stripers were marked.
We headed back to red canyon to look for schools and on the way we saw a boil right up on shore just south of Scorup. These were some of the healthiest fish I have seen in a while and I was surprised because we were catching them in 6ft of water. We couldn’t find a school to jig on so we headed back up to the horn around 3:00 again and the same as the day before they began to boil.
Same story as the day before, we left them boiling to go clean fish.
While we were cleaning fish in ticaboo we marked two nice looking schools and since we were planning on leaving in the morning we decided to try to jig on some schools in morning before we left for home.
Had a raging bonfire that night and played with the long exposure feature on my iPhone. Some pretty cool pictures on the Milky Way, and we got to watch to moon rise over red canyon.
That morning I found the schools we marked the night before while cleaning fish, but all we caught were catfish. Really weird, guess they weren’t schools of striper. It was a great trip and the weather was perfect. No wind to speak of and the nights were perfectly cool. The water temps would range from 69-70 in the morning raising up to 76-77 in the afternoon. I stopped and talk to just about every boat I saw and let them know the boils were happening past the horn. I hope they got in to them like we did!
Tight lines worldlings!
His name is Thomas, but somehow he ended up with the nick name Tuna, so here is Tuna warming his toes on “Tuna Beach”.
Bear stew and fresh baked bread for dinner and it was an amazing night with no wind.
Sunday morning my son couldn’t resist messing with bluegills while we made breakfast.
After breakfast we went hunting for schools of striper. We struck out all morning in red canyon and blue notch. We had anchovies and were looking in all my usual spots for schools and saw nothing. In fact I barely saw any shad. I decided to push further north around 3:00 and man am I glad we did. As soon as we turned around the horn we saw a huge boil. We chased boils till 6:00 and left them boiling to go clean fish. The boils would last long enough to catch around 2 fish per man. The boils were popping up from the horn all the way up past four mile canyon.
Cleaned and fried some fish and had another awesome night at camp with no wind.Monday morning we set out for the horn with hopes of chasing boils all day. Unfortunately they didn’t boil again all morning. We trolled all the way up to two mile with little success. But we did find a few striper jigging anchovy, and we caught probably 30 catfish.
Shad were on the surface everywhere, but no stripers were marked.
We headed back to red canyon to look for schools and on the way we saw a boil right up on shore just south of Scorup. These were some of the healthiest fish I have seen in a while and I was surprised because we were catching them in 6ft of water. We couldn’t find a school to jig on so we headed back up to the horn around 3:00 again and the same as the day before they began to boil.
Same story as the day before, we left them boiling to go clean fish.
While we were cleaning fish in ticaboo we marked two nice looking schools and since we were planning on leaving in the morning we decided to try to jig on some schools in morning before we left for home.
Had a raging bonfire that night and played with the long exposure feature on my iPhone. Some pretty cool pictures on the Milky Way, and we got to watch to moon rise over red canyon.
That morning I found the schools we marked the night before while cleaning fish, but all we caught were catfish. Really weird, guess they weren’t schools of striper. It was a great trip and the weather was perfect. No wind to speak of and the nights were perfectly cool. The water temps would range from 69-70 in the morning raising up to 76-77 in the afternoon. I stopped and talk to just about every boat I saw and let them know the boils were happening past the horn. I hope they got in to them like we did!
Tight lines worldlings!
