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Lake Lacygne Wiper Fishing (Son Lands a Monster!) 07/21/12
My son and I made another trip to Lake Lacygne this morning. This was our 3rd weekend in a row to hit that lake and we continue to have really good luck. I ordered a new 8' Bett's Super Pro Cast Net this week and man it's nice. I had never bought a good cast net nor one over 5 feet in the past. 2 throws and we had our shad for the day. It was worth the extra money.
We were up at 3:30 am...on the water by 5:00 am and fishing by 5:15am. My experience the last three weeks is that the bite really slows down by 10:00 am. Today 90% of our fish were caught by 9:30am. That being said...getting up at 3:30 am every Saturday the last month has been worth it.
We fished Fishtech Double W spoons, 3/4 oz...and of course shad. Basically I am looking for large balls of bait fish...hopefully with the tale-tale missle lines on the depth finder going through the shad schools. We drop down lines with shad and then normally vertically jig a spoon. Today we had better luck fan casting the spoons and working them like you would a texas rigged plastic worm. Most our fish came on spoons...but our big fish came on shad.
This wiper my son caught was a monster:yikes!! I really wanted to try and weigh it on a certified scale but knew with the heat and conditions the fish would die for sure. Instead we snapped a quick photo and released it...so I'll let everyone speculate what the fish weighed....and it is swimming to be caught again.
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