Fished The Lower James

[mmirg]

We fished the lower James on Tues. Had a great day of fishing and the catching was pretty good too. Between my buddy and me we boated about 25 fish with only 3-4 that weren't keepers. We mostly used 5" tiki sticks in mossy pumpkin on a spit shot rig. Towards the end of the trip I put on a 4" senko in chartrues and my buddy gave me hell for my choice of colors, but the fish didn't seem to care. If you got the bait to the fish and worked it really slowly the bite was there, sometimes I would feel the bite and then just dead stick it or give it a little twitch until they picked it up. We had alot of short strikes and fish that just wouldn't commit. That's why I tried the shorter senko. They seemed to swallow it instead of just nibble on the tail. The biggest fish of the trip was about 18", lots in the 13-15" range and one nice goggle eye. The bigger fish were holding in the fastest part of the current or in the middle of the deeper stretches instead of up in the structure like normal. Sorry I don't have any pics to verify my fishing story, as soon as my partner caught the first fish of the day (and one of the biggest) my camera battery died. Aint that the way it goes. We put on at around 8:00 and took of at about 4:00.

Good luck, mmirg