Cedar Creek 4-7-16

Got a late start Yesterday with my son Lynnie and brother in law Everett. Headed down to Cedar creek for stripers, we got there roughly around 1:15 pm with the wind blowing up river at like gale force winds it felt like. It is amazing that up in Great Falls no wind to worry about, then get to the river and it's blowing like all get out. Well we unhooked the boat and went down river to our planned location and got set up with the boat pulling anchors with the wind. We ended up going to the bank and tying off to a log and setting up again with a break off immediately on first rod. It was slow except for some huge catfish that Lynnie was hoisting in every other cast or so. We managed to get 18 stripers all different sizes with some break offs and some that went under a log or rocks in front of the boat maybe 20 foot in front of us. Catfish were in 5-10 pound range but keeping only one, why I don't know! It was a bad day weather wise but a good day with family.

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Looks like ya found a few there Dawgg. Wish I could have been there with ya. Great report.

Glad you got your BIL on some fish. I looked at the wind forecast and stayed home.
Thanks for the report

Nice catch Dawgg thanks for sharing

We might have seen you, I saw a pontoon close to the bank about 2 or so, we were leaving , too windy.

No, it wasn't us. We were in my 16 ft. blue/gray Alumnacraft just up a ways on the left from where the pontoon was if we are talking about the same toon. We moved 3 times trying to get set up. We were the funny looking guys who looked out of place, most people just wait for film at 11. :yikes The pontoon we saw was just below the islands mouth opening on the left heading to the big rocks on the point.

We should have stayed home too! But when you got that itch and a kid screaming he's off and wants to do something, you got to go! I had the chore of cleaning fish. Um,:Rofl somethings wrong with this picture!

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Originally Posted by BigDawgg

No, it wasn't us. We were in my 16 ft. blue/gray Alumnacraft just up a ways on the left from where the pontoon was if we are talking about the same toon. We moved 3 times trying to get set up. We were the funny looking guys who looked out of place, most people just wait for film at 11. :yikes The pontoon we saw was just below the islands mouth opening on the left heading to the big rocks on the point.

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Thats the one, we never made it up past the rocks. So we couldn't see you up there.

glad you got on um BD wish I could have went
but had deck tore down at house and couldn't get in
so I had to try to get it back up. maybe next time.
congrats on a fine catch == good talking to you today

It's too bad there is not a lower limit on Lake Wateree. 10 fish just seems like way too many, especially considering how easy they are to catch in the spring in the river section of the lake.

Thanks for posting Dawgg. Sure makes a fellow feel good when he can take people fishing and put them on fish. I took Mark(eatmorecrappie) to the fest and we caught crappie and finished in second place behind Gabowman,
Mark was able to take a nice mess home thanks to a lot of generous people at the fest. When I get back from Mississippi I want to do some cat fishing. Don

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Originally Posted by CarolinaCatfish

It's too bad there is not a lower limit on Lake Wateree. 10 fish just seems like way too many, especially considering how easy they are to catch in the spring in the river section of the lake.

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It is strictly put and take fishery, so DNR manages it that way by how many fish are stocked. If they lower the harvest limit, they would just stock less fish. Wateree doesn't have the habitat to grow trophy fish, so 10 fish limit is great.

Nice catch! A lot of fillets in that picture, congrats.