Pickwick Tailrace 09-16-2014
Had a good day at Pickwick today. Got into the baby stripers and decent white bass. The stripers were all 14-15 inch fish and the white bass were 13-15 inch range. Caught 11 stripers and 37 white bass. Started fishing with a 1/4 ounce jig head with a Killer Klatt Crappie Magnet and was catching too many drum. The drum in the pic is 25 inches long and I was using 6# test SOS Line. The flow was 60,000 CFS. Took a while too get the drum in. I switched to an 1/8 ounce head and the whites and stripers started killing it. Would cast up current of the cutback and let it drift into the cutback and as soon as it got there they would hammer it. Had the one large mouth. The fish were really digging in that current....lots of fun fighting them. I expect in the next 6 weeks for the fish to get bigger and really stack in there. They are lowering Pickwick to winter pool 6 weeks ahead of schedule this year to do some testing and work on the dam....so should be plenty of flow. May hit it again tomorrow.
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