Snipe hunting

[Rivercat09]

Perch for live lining? I read that someone had some recent success with this on the other board. Are you guys just fishing them, or are you cutting the spiny fins off like I've heard of people trying? Thanks.

Don

[Skip]

RiverCat - Rock eat Perch all the time with fins - so no reason to cut them off.

I do add some weight with live lined Perch - they do not swim deep like Spot will.

Often just 1/8 - 1/4 is needed , enough to gently pull the Perch towards bottom.

Once Spot move in thick - it's much tougher to get Rock to hit a Perch.

[Rockin' Robin]

I've been snipe hunting at Hackett's several times in past few weeks, mostly not spending more than 30-60 minutes there and only catching 2-5 spot each time. On Thursday I caught about 10 spot in an hour and was hoping I was seeing an up trend, but today we only got 2 spot with 4 rods going for nearly an hour... Even the perch were slow today, although we did catch about 30.

Tolly has been worse with 0-2 spot per attempt.

one attempt at West River G1 yielded just 5 spot in an hour with lots of perch and croaker.

All of the spot I have caught this year have been too big for livelining, or at least bigger than I like @ 7-9".

Hoping they come in smaller and in greater numbers soon!

[mlag]

Did real well on snipe over the last few days. Catching well inside #1 at mouth of West River. (15 to 20 feet) Took me a while to find them Friday but ended up catching 30 by myself. Saturday was better and Sunday was even better yet. Yes, most are on the big size. You will need to find a good grade of fish. Cindy and I had 26,27,28 and 30 yesterday. The good news is that a buddy of mine loves spot (he grew up on them in NC) The ones that get banged up or pass on due to natural causes are put on ice and saved for him.
Good Luck fellas.........................................Mar k

[Jalopy]

After 3 hrs of drifting different locations and depths from the bridge down to hackett's we finally got to double hookups in the same exact spot so I pulled around and dropped anchor, We loaded up around 50-60 of those buggers in less than an hour. Maybe 10 were jumbos, but most were 6-7 inches. We then went to the bridge to live line and got 9 quickly, 3 with legions were released and then the current slacked, so we called it a day.
Many thanks to "PATTY POO??" for lending me a battery at Hackett's to get my boat started. We drained the battery with the Livewell, depthfinder, and ipod going at the same time, I also must have hit the bilge switch by accident because it was running also.
Good News is that leaving the motor running while live lining did not scare the fish in the least.
Tight Lines
John