Dannyak
Active Member
Took the boat out Sunday at State Line. Went into Lone Rock area and couldn't find the shad that seem to have been there for months. Marked some sparce scatterred stripers but they were not hungry, maybe from the full moon. Tried bait and even the Dude hair jig that I normally troll on leadcore when all else fails but got no attention. Left and went to the dam which was a ghost town. The graph was empty other than a few bass sitting on edges. Decided to make a run to Navajo. No stripers at the mouth. Tried bass at the first turn and nothing. Trolled back a ways and started picking up smallies on the hair jig on points, so stopped and salvaged the trip catching several smallies dropshotting a 6th Sense strobe minnow that we just started carrying at the shop. Unfortuately I forgot to throw the extra Strobe Minnows in the boat after rigging the first and once a fish took my bait that was it. Had to switch to blue ribbed swim baits with tungston ball jig heads, which got bit but the smallies would short bite those or pop off quickly. Nothing else seemed to work, including the Ned rig. Dan's report on the die-off of stripers seems to be accurate. We did see one fish swim up to the boat and check us out when we were bass fishing but that seems like it.
