Well my 898 SI came through for me again.... I decided to put down the crappie rigs and pick up my trolling poles for stripers last weekend. Boy am I glad I did... The striper bite was hot. I started off pulling 6 poles. I went to an area I had caught stripers before. As soon as i got to the area.... ALL SIX POLES HOOKED UP!!!!!!! Yes I said ALL SIX POLES... So I am in the boat by myself and have 6 fish on screaming line off my reels... LOL... I didn't know what pole to grab first.. I picked what I thought was the biggest fish, pointed the trolling motor to open water, and the fight was on... I had lines tangled everywhere.. The fish on the right side of the boat when left.. The fish on the left went right.. and the ones in the middle went to the outside.. I managed to land 3 of the 6 hook ups. The other 3 got off. I took a quick picture of them together and released them back in the water for another day. After that.. I decided to go back with just 3 poles (since I had to cut the line of 3 of them anyway to get rid of the tangles). I ended up catching 3 more stripers in the next hour. I guess I made the school bust up when I came through the first time cause these were scattered. So in about 2.5 hours I managed to boat 6 stripers. The biggest was in the first batch of 3 I caught and he weighted 7.4 lbs. The others weighted 5.5, 5, 5, 4.5, 3.5 by my digital scales.... I tried them again Sunday afternoon and didn't get a bite... I hope to find them again soon!
Pictures of Fish:
Some SI shots from my 898c SI:
This is where all 6 poles hooked up at the same time. I hit the mark button soon as I could
Scroll speed at 2 and speed at 2 mph (Fish must be moving since image is elongated)
Scroll speed at 4 and speed at 4 mph
DoubleG
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