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A Shocking Experience
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Actual date of survey trip was November 15th. Location was Imperial Division of the Colorado River This post was copied from my forums. I got the opportunity to go out with Russ & Mark with AZGFD last night on the shock boat to do a bass survey. It was a blast, although I felt that Mark and Russ did all the work while all I had to do was the fun part. Netting stunned fish. I think they said we netted and recorded 116 fish on seven different sites. Those included: Largemouth bass channel catfish flathead catfish yellow bullhead catfish red ear sunfish bluegill warmouth tilapia crappie striped bass threadfin shad and a couple bullfrogs We did not log every fish netted, and we didn't net even a fraction of the fish stunned. The primary species was bass and in one amazing stretch we didn't even net all of the larger bass stunned. Because I have fished every place we shocked last night it gave me an interesing perspective on the numbers of fish in those places. In a couple places the results were very close to what I expected, but in one stretch I was totally floored. I've always caught fish there, but based on the shear numbers of quality fish we shocked relative to my catch rates there I have come to the conclusion I suck as a bass fisherman. LOL. If you ever get the chance to go out on a shock boat in areas were you fish you should go. Russ and Mark are old hands at this, but I had an absolute blast. At midnight we loaded the boat and headed back to Yuma, but I would have been up to hit a couple more areas. I was tired, and I wasn't doing the most of the actual work, but it was so much fun I would have loved to go again. I even told them if anybody cancels on the rest of their surveys to call me I would love to go again. I think the biggest fish netted was a flathead that looked to be about six pounds to me. There were a bunch of bass in the 2-3 pound range, 4 or 5 in the 4 pound class, and one approaching 5. I think we netted close to 100 bass from 2 inches to almost 5 pounds. The other thing to note is we shocked thousands of shad. There were a lot of them in the 6 inch class. We didn't shock a lot of crappie, but the ones we did were pretty big. Mark was the one who got them, and he said he thought they were bass at first. As expected there weren't a lot of bass in the shallow baren silt flats, but where there was a major change within them there were decent numbers. I also think in a couple areas were there was a lot of bait fish (shad and sunfish both) and heavy grass we weren't seeing the bass that were there come up from under the grass but where in a couple places there was a break in it we did have some stunned fish that were seeable and netable. Sorry, I didn't take any pictures. We worked all after sunset, and while we did shock a lot of quality fish there were no toads. I have caught quite a number on regular hook and line bigger than the biggest ones we shocked. Bob La Londe www.YumaBassMan.com Tournament Director www.YumaProAm.com ROFB FAQ www.ROFB.net |
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A Shocking Experience
I followed a shocking boat around way back in the 1970s on Jackson
Lake here. At one point they told us to fish a blowdown before they shocked it. Bob and I made a dozen casts each to the tree with no bites. When they ran the chains up around it, two five pound bass came up. Showed me that just because you don't get a bite don't mean there aren't fish there! Ronnie http://fishing.about.com |
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A Shocking Experience
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:03:28 -0800 (PST), Ronnie
wrote: I followed a shocking boat around way back in the 1970s on Jackson Lake here. At one point they told us to fish a blowdown before they shocked it. Bob and I made a dozen casts each to the tree with no bites. When they ran the chains up around it, two five pound bass came up. Showed me that just because you don't get a bite don't mean there aren't fish there! Ronnie http://fishing.about.com Both interesting accounts. Always wanted to follow or be on a shock boat. A friend in Oconto County, WI followed a shocking boat on a stretch of the Oconto River that he lived on and we all fished. We had all caught 12" to 19" Browns along there. There were times at night when huge splashes occurred when fishing jointed Rapalas, but never a hook up. The shock boat measured browns up to 30" along that stretch!! These were Browns that had no access to lakes. Dan |
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