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Friday 28th – Sunday 30th Jody Kidd (killerfishlights.com) and
Kelly Williams (williamssteelbuildings.com)

We arrived at the lake Friday 11:30 am. As we headed down the lake, stopped at Lake Canyon and Annes to check for any signs of stripers. We were marking some fish in each canyon. Then the wind started to blow and it began to rain so we headed for cover in Iceberg Canyon, we looked for fish and headed back to the main channel to see if the storm had calmed down by then. It was still storming out in the main channel so we pulled back into Iceberg and set up camp, cooked dinner and put out the KillerFishLight and began the wait. It wasn’t long and the plankton began to gather. The water in Iceberg was very clear, it wasn’t long before we had thousands of shad swimming around the greenlight. You could see then darting from one side of the light to the other. It wasn’t long after that Kelly hooked up on a nice striper only to have it break off. A while later it was my turn, the fish pulled hard and I pulled up a nice 6 lb. striper. The whole time this was going it was pouring rain and we could hear the waterfalls starting. We turned on our spotlight and we found that we had a nice waterfall on each side of the boat. As we watch the greenlight in the shadows you could see the baitfish circling the light and out in the edges you could see big fish chasing the baitfish. There was one time we could see what appeared to maybe 12 inch fish chasing the baitfish in 2 foot circle around and around. So we got out the fish cam and put it under only to find it was carp going after the plankton. We spent the night fishing out of a slot in the camper canvas at each corner of the boat. We gave up at about 1:00am. The next morning we went down just past the Rincon along the cliffs. We figured that the rain had pushed all of the fish deep so we began trolling with down riggers and JP Rigs at 50 feet. In a short time Kelly had a fish and lost it. That was the last one he would lose. Then it was my turn I caught one then two and then three. Then Kelly caught the next three. At the end of the day we had 11 stripers. While we were fishing we talked to Ray Schelble and he had been having some luck fishing for smallmouth in 30 feet of water. Even though fishing was rather slow we had a great time. Our most productive time was spent with JP Rigs in 50 feet of water. At times the screen on my fish finder was so clouded with bait that the finder would show a 9 foot bottom and it would set off the shallow water alarm. When we began fishing the screen was clear and showing a 39 foot bottom. Here a link to what my screen looked like. http://ciphertech.com/pics/img_0646540.jpg

deadserious

Welcome to HuntingTalk Jody! That's a great story and sounds like a whole lot of fun, even in the storm. Thanks for sharing!

dustynoggin

wow awesome trip !!!!! sounds like a great time !!!

whats the temps like there in november