Guys,
I fished a 2 day tourney at Smith Lake and pulled a herring out of a 12 in spots mouth i believe. I want someoine to confirm. Can anyone give me a email adress to send it to. For confirmation. Thanks
Guys,
I fished a 2 day tourney at Smith Lake and pulled a herring out of a 12 in spots mouth i believe. I want someoine to confirm. Can anyone give me a email adress to send it to. For confirmation. Thanks
I hope you are wrong but they seem to be spreading. I wish i could move to an area with no blueback lakes. Im surrounded by them and they fish like not other lakes. Its a complete different type of fishing than normal bass fishing. Good luck!
I think they started stocking them this year.
really???
Ive never fished smith before. all i know about it is its a spot lake. is it a deep fishing lake or is there a good shallow bite?
super deep..avg depth is prolly 60 ft..were catching fish on spoons and ds in 40....
takes roughly 14lbs a week to win in winter...12ish in summer..most guys catch em in in brush inm winter 25-40....will it change them? push them up out of the piles and chasing alot more?
What's wrong with blue back lakes? How does it change the fishing style?
My understanding is that they are an asset to a fishery like at Murray for instance.
http://www.bassmaster.com/tips...lakes
Topwater all summer sounds great to me but that's jmo.
<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by luke1wcu »</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">What's wrong with blue back lakes? How does it change the fishing style?
My understanding is that they are an asset to a fishery like at Murray for instance.
http://www.bassmaster.com/tips...lakes
Topwater all summer sounds great to me but that's jmo.
</td></tr></table> Fished all the SC area lakes with the BBH and they all fish like any other bass lake. Dont know what is meant by totally different fishing? Caught lots of 6-7 pound bass and a 10 pounder in the last few years using standard approaches.
Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill !!
I love to topwater fish. I have to love it because i live on these lakes but i do like to fish other patterns as well. After the herring spawn the herring roam in deep water. Its hard to pinpoint fish like this in my opinion. I like to deep crank and some other techniques as well. Not spend all my time "striper fishing". Let me change what i said. From late feb. thru mid may these lakes fish like most other lakes, after that its all about the herring.
Lake Lanier is a blue back lake.It takes 20lbs sack to win a tourny here.I have been fishing it all my life and its better than ever.IMO
I know a man who guides for Stripe on Smith 4-6 times a week. He has told me a few times he has found herring in the fish mouth.
Sure it wasn't a Skipjack Herring?? They are common thru out the whole state of Alabama where as the Blueback is a east coast fish. They almost look the same but the blueback has a small dark spot behind the gill plate.
Blue herring are illegal to be in Smith, that is not say that they aren't in there.
<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by omcforever »</td></tr><tr><td class="quote"> Fished all the SC area lakes with the BBH and they all fish like any other bass lake. Dont know what is meant by totally different fishing? Caught lots of 6-7 pound bass and a 10 pounder in the last few years using standard approaches. </td></tr></table>
Art, if your talking about a spotted bass weighing 10 lbs. it was 4 oz's shy of the world record and that spotted bass was caught by Bryan Shishido back on 4-21-01 in califorina's pine flat lake, it weighed in at 10-4.
I've heard bluebacks will eat large mouth eggs and wipe out the population.
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