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The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com
Friday, June 28, 2019 3B
LANIER
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some time but it is much
easier if you have Struc
ture Scan (side imaging).
With Structure Scan you
can idle over an area and
mark brush piles. You
should also monitor your
electronics throughout the
day and add new waypoints
any time you run over new
brush. Once you have sev
eral areas with waypoints
marked, you are ready to
run and gun.
Shut the big motor down
a few cast lengths away
from your best waypoints
and approach them with
your trolling motor. Make
several casts with a topwa-
ter plug or a subsurface lure
like a spy bait, swim bait,
crank bait or other faster
moving lures. If your initial
casts don’t produce a strike
then move over the brush
and scan it with your elec
tronics. If the fish are pres
ent then try using a drop
shot, Texas Rig or even the
relatively new Ned Rig and
drop your offerings down to
the depth where you mark
fish. If you don’t get a strike
then move on to your next
area.
You may hit 10 areas
before you encounter an
active school of fish on your
11th stop. Then it is time
to “make hay” and catch
as many as possible. This
is why bass boats have 250
horsepower motors. It’s
not to out run the bass but
instead to move efficiently
to as many areas as pos
sible. And yes, they also
allow us to outrun other
anglers to the best areas.
This past week, we have
been casting larger, topwa-
ter lures and working them
with a fast pace along the
surface. Use a saltwater
Chug Bugs, Super Spooks
or even an eight-inch SPRO
BBZ1 Slow Sink to work
over off shore brush. I use
an eight-foot Kissel Kraft
Custom Crank Bait Rod that
has a parabolic bend with a
fast reel spooled with SX2
Sunline Braid. The braid
helps with long hook sets,
and my Kissel Krafts rod
gives just enough to allow
the fish to take the bait.
Once we determine if the
fish are inactive in an area,
then we will move above
the brush and use a drop
shot or Ned Rig. Drop these
offerings down to fish that
you see within the brush.
My drop shot rig consists
of a Kissel Krafts Custom
medium action spinning
rod and reel spooled with
16-pound test Sunline Sxl
Braid attached to a SPRO
Swivel with a seven-pound
test Sunline Sniper Fluoro
carbon leader. Hook your
worm with a #1 Gamakatsu
Aberdeen hook and a 1 / 8 to
y 4 ounce Tungsten Skinny
Weight.
Other lures have also
been working well on main
lake. Smaller swimbaits
like a Big Bite Baits Suicide
Shad fished below the sur
face on a l/8th to y 4 ounce
jig head, a spinner bait or
even deep diving crank
baits like a SPRO Little
John 70 or 90 Deep Diver.
Throw the lures in the same
places where you find off
shore brush.
The stripers are setting
up in their deeper summer
locations around ditches
that lead into the creek and
river channels. With water
temperatures in the 80s, the
thermocline is starting to
set up in the 25-foot range.
This means that the cooler
water below the thermo
cline layer will concentrate
the fish below that 25-foot
level. My Lowrance Elec
tronics are essential tools
for locating these deeper
fish. Make sure to locate
the schools before deploy
ing down lines.
It is essential to keep
your bait alive and well dur
ing a fishing outing. Proper
aeration and chemicals are
a must for keeping your
blue back herring alive and
active. Make sure to check
in with your local tackle
dealer to secure the proper
bait tanks, non-chlorinated
ice and salt to keep your
herring alive through out
the heat of the day.
Most of the stripers we
are marking are located
from 35-feet deep on down
to as deep as 70-feet. Use
a down line (basically a
Carolina Rig) with a one-
to two-ounce sinker with
a 20-pound mainline and
a long 12-Pound Sunline
Fluorocarbon leader. Drop
your bait to a the level just
above where you mark fish.
Switch out baits frequently.
The power reeling bite
has really started to turn
on. There are basically two
ways to employ the power
reeling technique. The first
way is easy. When it is time
to switch out your herring
drop the rod with your old
herring down through the
school of fish, then reel it up
as fast as you can through
and hold on. Even if your
herring are dead this tech
nique can trigger a reaction
bite from stripers as the
bait speeds up past them.
The second way to
employ power reeling
involves a large, Ben
Parker spoon. Drop these
very large spoons toward
the fish that you mark on
your electronics, then reel
them quickly up though
the school. Use heavy,
20-pound Sunline Natural
Monofilament on your reel.
This line is heavy enough
to land a big striper, but
it also stretches enough
to handle the shock from
the fish hitting your lure.
Other lures like a two-ounce
SPRO Bucktail rigged with
a Big Bites Suicide Shad or
a smaller Lake Forks Flut
ter Spoon will also produce
hard hitting strikes.
There have been some
stripers after dark near
deeper docks that have
Hydro Glow Lights located
around them. Better yet,
you can drop your own
Hydro Glow light over the
side of your boat after dark
in the creek mouths. Drop
your herring to the level
where you mark fish on
your electronics. Unlike
when you fish during the
day, it pays to stay put and
allow the bait and stripers
to come to your lights.
Crappie fishing has been
a little slower, but anglers
who are adept at fishing
deep jigs around brush in
20 to 30 feet of water early
or late in the day, may
catch them well. Find the
brush located close to deep
water and allow your jigs to
sink to the level where the
brush is located. Work your
small crappie jigs through
the brush, allowing them
to work up and over limbs.
Use a bright colored light
two- to six-pound test line so
you can see the small tick in
the line that indicates a bite.
For anglers (like me) that
are less adept at deep fish
ing, the night bite may work
best for boating. Set out
lights around deeper docks
or bridges in the backs of
the creeks and rivers. Fish
crappie or spottail min
nows below floating or sub
merged lights. These lights
will attract bait fish, which,
in turn, pulls in predator
fish like crappie, bass and
stripers. If you get really
lucky, you may even boat
a walleye. Walleyes are
nocturnal feeders that are
about as tasty as freshwater
fish get.
Bank fishing: It’s that
time of year when the
weather gets hot and most
of Lake Lanier’s preda
tor fish move away from
the shore. That being said,
there is one hard fight
ing fish that prowls during
the hottest part of the day
in shallow water close to
human activity — carp.
Fishing for carp is a great
way for kids or new anglers
to have to opportunity to
fight and catch a big fish
on light fishing tackle. Use
your trout or crappie fish
ing rods and reels rigged
with four- to eight-pound
line. Carp love to roam
around beaches, marinas
and banks located close to
local camp grounds.
Open up a can of corn,
take a small handful and
throw it into the lake in
front of the area you are
going to fish. Allow about
a half hour to draw the
carp into the area. After
chumming with the corn,
bait up several rods with a
small Aberdeen or Octopus
Gamakatsu Hook. String
three to five kernels on
each hook, cast them into
the area you have already
chummed and secure your
rods well and wait.
Remember to take a kid
fishing.
Eric Aldrich is an outdoor
writer, marketing specialist
and bass angler. Reports
are based on personal
experience and permission
from a close network of
friends. He is currently
booking teaching trips
for Lake Lanier’s spotted
and largemouth bass. He
would love to hear from our
readers so please email him
at esaldrich@yahoo.com
GOLF
Lashley leads after
first-round 63
Nate Lashley tried and
failed to qualify for a spot in
the Rocket Mortgage Classic
earlier this week.
He chose to stay in
Detroit, hoping to slip into
the field as an alternate.
Good call. Lashley birdied
the final three holes and five
of the last six for a 9-under
63 and the first-round lead
Thursday at the PGA Tour’s
first event in Detroit.
The 36-year-old Lashley
had the lowest score in his
PGA Tour career, a day
after finding out he would
have a chance to compete
at Detroit Golf Club. Ranked
353rd in the world and No.
132 in the FedEx Cup stand
ings, Lashley’s only top-10
finish in his two-year PGA
Tour career is a tie for
eighth in the Puerto Rico
Open in February.
“Hopefully, can play well
this week and continue to
play well and lock up my
card,” he said.
Ryan Armour and Nick
Watney were at stroke back
at 64. Chez Reavie, the Trav
elers Championship winner
Par scores
Thursday’s scores
At Detroit Golf Club
Detroit
Purse: $7.3 million
Yardage: 7,340; Par 72
First Round
Nate Lashley
32-31—63
-9
Ryan Armour
33-31—64
-8
Nick Watney
31-33—64
-8
Charles Howell III
32-33—65
-7
Talor Gooch
32-33—65
-7
Chez Reavie
32-33—65
-7
Stewart Cink
32-33—65
-7
Rory Sabbatini
33-32—65
-7
Adam Schenk
33-32—65
-7
Chase Wright
33-32—65
-7
Brian Stuard
31-35—66
-6
last week in Connecticut,
and Charles Howell III and
Stewart Cink topped the
group of seven players at 65.
Dustin Johnson, the sec
ond-ranked player in the
world, opened with a 71.
Gary Woodland had a
73 in his first start since
winning the U.S. Open,
an accomplishment that
altered his career and
schedule.
Strieker grabs tie
for lead at the
US Senior Open
Steve Strieker made his
U.S. Senior Open debut
Thursday with an eagle on
the 17th hole for an 8-under
62 to share the lead with
defending champion David
Toms on a soft Warren Golf
Course at Notre Dame.
Toms set a U.S. Senior
Open record with 10 birdies,
finishing with four in a row
for a 29 on the back nine.
Strieker, coming off a
playoff loss last week in the
American Family Insurance
Championship, played in the
afternoon and rolled in a
35-foot putt for eagle on the
par-5 17th hole.
Associated Press
Kevin Kisner
34-32—66
-6
Mackenzie Hughes
32-34—66
-6
Kevin Streelman
33-33—66
-6
J.J. Spaun
32-34—66
-6
Danny Lee
35-31—66
-6
Harris English
33-33—66
-6
Scott Stallings
32-34—66
-6
Jason Kokrak
35-31—66
-6
Bronson Burgoon
36-30—66
-6
Cameron Champ
32-34—66
-6
Dylan Frittelli
31-35—66
-6
Martin Piller
34-32—66
-6
Tom Hoge
34-33—67
-5
Luke Donald
34-33—67
-5
Joey Garber
33-34—67
-5
Carlos Ortiz
33-34—67
-5
Jonas Blixt
33-34—67
-5
Associated Press
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