DrewManFishing Posted October 4, 2021 Report Share Posted October 4, 2021 Went out to the lake today expecting another long day of grind and no bites fishing for largemouth. They are pumping a ton of cold water into the lake causing an unusual heavy current at one end of the lake. I decided to go fish the shore where the water was pumping in not expecting much. My first cast I bombed a cast as far as I could and started a steady retrieve. Three reels in or so I got hit hard, set the hook but missed him. I kept reeling and got hit 3 or 4 more times and when i got my 250 close enough to see what was under it, I could see a massive school of 5-10 pound stripers taking turns on my bait! I freaked out and quickly backed my drag off, and made another long cast. Again, a few cranks into the retrieve I got hit and this time I hammered my hookset and landed my first deps 250 striper and a new PB, 7.5 pounds. Went back with the sneaky Pete because I didn’t want to loose my deps, and caught a second fish, 8.2 pounds. After these two fish, the wind changed directions and the bite turned off. The whole time I was on the right side of the current and wanted to see if the left side was any good, so I trolled over there and gave the rod to my dad (who has never caught a swimbait fish) with the sneaky Pete on it. After a short lesson on how I was retrieving the bait, he walked the shore and started fishing. Shortly after he hooked up and caught his first ever swimbait fish and it was a largemouth! XXS, FSHRMN, StriperAddict and 12 others 14 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwampDonkey45 Posted October 11, 2021 Report Share Posted October 11, 2021 Love to see the deps in action! Nice catch :) DrewManFishing 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niki814 Posted October 25, 2021 Report Share Posted October 25, 2021 Always a good day when you stick a 250 fish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrewManFishing Posted October 25, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2021 1 hour ago, Niki814 said: Always a good day when you stick a 250 fish For sure… especially since I struggle with hooking em on it a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_diggy_ Posted October 25, 2021 Report Share Posted October 25, 2021 Nice! I noticed the 250 that Butch changed the hooks on has a effortless hook up ratio compared to my stock one. Could be luck? Probably not. DrewManFishing 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porkmeatballs Posted October 25, 2021 Report Share Posted October 25, 2021 Nice job! I love targeting stripers with glides! DrewManFishing 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrewManFishing Posted October 25, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2021 (edited) 10 hours ago, _diggy_ said: Nice! I noticed the 250 that Butch changed the hooks on has a effortless hook up ratio compared to my stock one. Could be luck? Probably not. not for me..... my hookup ratio on my butch tuned deps 250s are still like 10% of the bites I get. Ive got major problems. Edited October 25, 2021 by DrewManFishing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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