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•FORSYTH COUNTY NEWi—SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, IW4
Try fall fishing
for nice surprise
By the time the paper bearing
this column reaches your
doorstep, the calender will
have officially recorded the
arrival of fall. The hunter has been
looking forward to this all the hot
summer long, but the fisherman
always regrets seeing autumn’s
appearance and starts to put his gear
away amid dreams of the spring and
the new fishing season.
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HKWiUTHAW
Outdoors columnist
is. For the mod part, the spring
season is the best for most of us to go
fishing. The reasons are varied, but
two of the most important are
increased feeding activity and
improved water temperatures.
What many fishermen fail to
realize, though, is that autumn
fishing will bring both these very
important factors into play again.
Think about it for a minute, and try to
put yourself in the fish’s place. Not
literally, of course.
Cool feels good
When the cooler autumn with its
refreshing weather patterns arrives,
everything and everybody feels
better. The fish are affected by this as
much as we are. Water temperatures
are much more comfortable than
before; the harsh sunlight that beats
down upon the water’s surface is not
so strong that the sensitive eyes of the
fish can’t bear it, and food supplies in
the form of the spring hatches of
baitfish are reaching nice meal size.
These improved conditions will
trigger feeding activity in most
species of fish, and the fisherman
who thinks that Labor Day is the end
of the season stands to miss out.
The fall weather often mimics that
of spring, and the fish frequently
respond as if it were April or May.
Some species, such as crappie, often
have a brief "false spawn” and will
move into the shallows in the same
areas they were found in so much
abundance earlier.
Occasionally other species such as
white and striped bass will show up in
feeder streams as though they were
preparing to make spawning runs
upriver. I have seen big bull bream
actually making nests in the shallows
and trying to entice passing females
to them for egg laying.
This false spawning activity will
largely disappear with the first really
cold snap that comes through, so the
fisherman had better take advantage
of it while he can. I doubt that much,
if any actual spawning takes place at
this time, but it is enough for the
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angler to know of this activity and
react accordingly.
Fish sense that winter is
approaching and with it bad weather
and decreased food supplies. In
preparation for this they store extra
food, in effect fattening themselves
up for the winter, and this will
account for the increased feeding
they do at this time.
This may be true, since this is the
pattern of most wild creatures at this
time. Or it could just be the extra food
that is swimming around them
coupled with the better water
temperatures and other factors that
make the fish feed heavily.
School’s in
Most species of fish cannot store a
great deal of fat on their bodies so I
don’t know about them stocking up
for winter. Cold water greatly
decreases a fish’s metabolism so his
requirements for nutrition are not
nearly as strong as normal. Whatever
the reason, fish frequently school up
at this time of year and cruise about
looking for schools of shad and other
baitfish.
Schooling gamefish provide for
some of the most exciting fishing that
you can find. Black, white, striped
and hybrid bass can suddenly erupt
from the deeps all around your boat,
gorging themselves on shad as if
there was no tomorrow.
I have seen fish caught from
schools like this which had their
stomachs swollen with food ami their
mouths crammed with some still
living shad. Yet they still smashed
into the lures as though they had not
seen a morsel in days.
This feeding activity seems to
affect practically all species of fish,
and I have even heard of schools of
catfish, rarely thought of as surface
feeders, being caught in schools of
surfacing bass.
When you are setting out with the
thought of getting in on some of this
action on a lake like Lanier, it is wise
to be prepared for almost anything.
The most common species caught
during these feeding binges are
smaller black bass going about two or
three pounds. There are also
occasionally spots of the same size
range and average one- to two
pound white bass.
Your normal everyday bass rigs
are fine for this type of fishing,
although I like to bring a lightweight
outfit along to enjoy the fighting
abilities of these smaller fish to the
fullest.
It is quite common, though, for
very large stripers, hybrids,
iargemouth and even trout in some
lakes to surface at this time and
feed on the topwater schools of
baitfish. Toss a little four- or six
pound test rig out in one of these
schools and you most often come up
with a busted line or burnt-out reel.
Try to pack along a reasonably
heavy-duty outfit or two for this type
of fishing in order to properly fight a
fish such as a large striper or hybrid.
This is a
mistake on
many anglers’
parts because
the fall can
present some
of the very
best fishing
there is.
The angler
is always
talking about
how good
spring fishing
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NOVEMBER 6,1984
On Lake Lanier or Atlantic
Sea Explorers ready to serve
If you are in a boat on Lake Lanier some
Saturday afternoon and you see a group of guys
wearing sailors’ caps aboard an old wood
Chris Craft named Hooray 11, don’t worry. It’s
the Sea Explorers.
It’s a crew from Sea Explorer Ship 288 on
lake patrol duty. If you need helf or if you run
out of gas and need a tow, yell a lot or hail them
on CB radio Channel 10.
Ship 288 has been awarded several commu
nity service awards for the man hours they
have put into patrolling Lake Lanier.
The Sea Explorers, chartered by the Explor
ing division of the Boy Scouts of America,
range from ages 14 to 21. Instead of being in a
troop, they are members of a ship. Slip 288, in
its 28th year, is a "Blue Fleet” ship, meaning
members wear uniforms and follow formal
naval procedures.
There are inland and coastal Sea Explorer
ships all over the country with as many as 30
members in each group. Each has varying
missions, interests and levels of formality.
Officers are elected. They progress in rank
through Apprentice, Ordinary and Able to
Quartermaster the Sea Explorers equivalent
to Eagl Scout. Boatswain (pronounced bonsun)
is the highest office.
They study navigation, coastal piloting,
weather, sailing, boat handling, maintenance
and first aid. They get plenty of opportunities to
leant leadership skills.
The skipper of Ship 288, their primary adult
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They meet every Saturday morning at the
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The ship’s business is taken care of in nauti
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Thor motto overhead, “Function in Disas
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the way Ship 188 came away from the two
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After business is finished, they grab some
lunch on the way to the lake. Their patrol boat
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private dock in return for some yard work. All
the boats Were donated. Ship 288 Is a non-profit
corporation, eligible to receive tax-deductible
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on the boats and patrolling the waters. Not all
their boating is on Lake Lanier. To earn a Long
Cruise bade, the Sea Explorers must sail the
oceans and they take a two-week trip every
summer.
This summer, 12 members of Ship 288 and
two advisors sailed to the Bahamas on a
chartered Morgan 41 ketch. They sailed from
Miami to Grand Bahamas Island, where a
tropical depression was shipping up winds of 50
knots. The storm stranded them for five days,
cutting out the planned trip further south into
the Emmas.
When the weather cleared, they sailed onto
Nassau, then across Bird Key in the Berry
Islands, to Gun Key and bade to Florida.
One year on the long cruise they came across
a sailboat floating helplessly, its sails blown out
by a storm and its motor dead. They towed the
boat into U.S. waters and passed it along to the
Coast Guard.
Because of instances such as this, Slip 288
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Bahamas Air-Sea Rescue Association.
So whether you see them on Lake Lanier or
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