Santee Shoreline Stalking (12/14)

[Latimeria]

Well, small craft all weekend made me decide to keep clear of the bay and ocean.  I was going to take my boat out to the lake, but after a long night of drinking, I was just happy to wake up before noon.

I saw that the lakes had a recent stocking so grabbed my small 2# trout outfit and a couple of trout rigs and loaded up the bike.  Maybe I could exercise by riding the bike down to get all of this blah out of me.

Rolled around the lakes to see nothing caught.  I saw a bass totally crash the surface and already had a castmaster tied on.  3 casts later and I snag my first shad I've ever seen out of these mud puddles!



I pitched it right back out and BAM!  The little two pound got rocked!  Big fish!  Fugger jumped and the line snapped.  Probably a 4-5# fish swimming off with my castmaster... ugh...

I tied up a little tube jig/power worm combo and started hard twitching it to try and get a reaction bite... Totally worked like a charm!  First bass was only about 13 inches, but scrappy.  Just as I lipped it on the shore, a cart rolled around.  Long story short, I didn't take a picture.

The bass started to bust more and more as I kept casting.  I finally hooked up again!  And AGAIN!!!!  and lost another....

The second two were respectively really nice bass for 2 pound test.  The first one made for a great shot of the mini jig.



Just as I was ready to go, I get slammed by the bigger model. 



Never saw a trout all day.  Maybe the pelicans ate them all???  But I went 3 for 5 on the bass and pretty decent ones also!  Not a bad way to nurse a hangover, although the pedal home was a bit tough and I was all jelly legs from my "lack of physical activity" style body.  LOL

Thanks for reading!

[vdisney]

A fishing spot within biking distance??  Works for me Tom, glad you caught a few.....

[jrodda]

Fun trip. Pedialyte is a good drink for hangovers, it's like a 'roided up Gatorade.