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Originally Posted by bicey
Sound awesome! I had them pushing bait 2 weeks ago but they weren't busting on top. Man..........you really got me pumped to go to LH. From what I hear yours are consistently bigger than ours over here. A guy i know told me if i started fishing LH that I wouldn't go back to SR.
My largest at SR is 9lb 8 oz. 29 inches. IMO, at SR the best fighting ones are in the 22-24" range.
I may have to try an umbrella rig........I see a lot of guys in the south using them for pures and hybrids.
I've been begging my wife to get a gopro, but at this point its a nogo! Would be cool to make some vids of hybrids in action.
BTW did you fish the hybrid tourney?
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LH is a tuff nut to crack when u first start fishing it, I hated the place years ago couldnt catch squat on the regular. The majority of the hybrids are 3-6 pds. and they kinda school based on year class. When u find em bigger like 5+ thats when u eventuall get some big boys, altho w all the wipers Ive got I never got one over 9lbs. I lost a monster sunday morn boatside that was 10+ all day long, in the action of chasing the birds/bait i never retied my leader and snapped off a big flutter spoon on 15 floro netting it. Would have been my PB for sure looked like a legal saltwater striper I think it had more purestrain DNA than usual, didnt have the football shape was on the long side. And the other big problem w LH is the herring, LH supplies MOST of this state w bait in the shops, the fish are very keen on what they will eay, artificials dont do as well as herring, the place is LOADED w bait, I get baitballs on my sonar the size of pickup trucks everytime Im out w fish following them, and thats prob the reason ours are bigger too. Trolling is tuff cause of the weeds, the powerboats rip vegetation going in and out of slips and u get BIG balls that just float in clumps, so I pretty much search using sonar/GPS find some life and setup and drop bait w line counters. I dont anchor I have a Ipilot terrova I jsut spot lock and it hovers me within 10 feet of the spot I lock. This also allows for some movement of the boat/bait when the TM fights current/wind to get me back to the locked spot. I usually jig a binsky if I mark em down deep or toss a stickbait/plastic if up a little high in the water column. I have some umbrellas I sue for smallies that Im gonna try, I wish I had them sunday I woulda loved to nail 2 or 3 at once on it. And yeah the 4-6 pd class fish fight the hardest, the big ones make hard first runs down deep then just play u when they come up, the mediums make many runs they dont give it up til they are in the net
