Wipers

[Andy L]

Hope it works for ya.

Rooster tails work good when they bust here too. Usually use them more on whites than hybrids. Ive caught alot of hybrids that would destroy a rooster tail or shyster.

Good luck and let me know if I can help. I love to fish.]

Andy

BTW, if you like catchin hybrids, and it sounds like you do, I got a story for ya. In October 03, me and a couple of buddies went to Lake Ouachita, just outside Hot Springs Arkansas. We fished for three days for stripers.

The first two days were miserable. No surfacing action, caught a few graphing fish and fishing live shad and spoons vertical. Pretty boring, but did catch a few.

The third day, we were planning on fishing til noon and headin home. Well, it was a calm morning, the rain and wind had stopped, and was overcast. We went out to a channel with alot of long flat points and started graphing. While my buddies were fishing, I was lookin through the binocs. About 7:30 am, across the lake on a flat point, it looked like somebody was throwin concrete blocks out of an airplane. Literally 2-3' splashes, and lots of em!!!

We shot over there and eased into them and started throwing Trout colored Redfins and Spooks. It was unreal. We would catch 2-5 and they would spook and go down. But, we would pull out a ways and watch and it may be a mile or more down the lake but they would come up again. We did this ALL DAY LONG!! We ended up catching 65 fish between us, all on topwater. Smallest was 8lb and the largest 38lb!!! Incredible day. Ive never had so much fun catchin fish in my life. Non stop action.

Ive gotten into whites and hybrids when they were bustin shad, but this was a totally different ballgame. Big fish. I want to go do that again, maybe this fall, if I can find the time.

My home lake here is pretty large. It has 1200 miles of shoreline. The main channel is 92 miles long and has numerous rivers and creeks as tributaries. Lots of room to find fish.

You got me with the itch now. I juicin up my batteries tomorrow. Its supposed to warm up here by the weekend. Im going to check some channel swings. I have a friend that has the biggest hybrid I have personally seen on his wall, taken from this lake. Its just shy of 21lb. And, was taken right where I was tellin you in the last post I normally find them this time of year. Ill take some pics and let you know if we get into them. You do the same.

Good Luck
Andy