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Just got back to Raleigh NC. What a trip!!!! We spent 8 days at the lake house. I had forgotten how beutiful this place is! 40 miles long and over 500 miles of shoreline.
The first two days I tried different creek arms trying to find the stripers to no avail. I did slay the smallies and white bass though
Finally we decided to make the 20 mile run to the dam and try there. We got up three mornings in a row at 4:30 in the morning and made the long haul in our Hurricane pontoon boat. We netted about 200 Alewifes each evening off the dock for bait. We then had to fight a monster current that the dam was generating and get into place. We used the electric to stay in place in front of bouy line at the dam. We got a half dozen each morning between 6-10 lbs. Small by striper standards but each one was a freight train!!! Thursday morning we decided to go up river to a creek arm we had found on the map. Bingo! Nine stripers from 6-12 lbs. Friday we hit the dam again and caught some more smaller stripers.
I also caught about 20 catfish between 2-10 lbs just free lining Alewifes and Gizzard shad off our dock.
This an incredible place if you are a fisherman! It will be hard to look at Aurora Res the same way again, LOL.
Monday I get to fly back to Denver with level orange security! We should just nuke the whole ########### middle east!
The first two days I tried different creek arms trying to find the stripers to no avail. I did slay the smallies and white bass though
I also caught about 20 catfish between 2-10 lbs just free lining Alewifes and Gizzard shad off our dock.
This an incredible place if you are a fisherman! It will be hard to look at Aurora Res the same way again, LOL.
Monday I get to fly back to Denver with level orange security! We should just nuke the whole ########### middle east!