Active schools keep anglers guessing
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fishes the rigs on 6- to 6 1/2-foot-long Berkley Big Game Power Series rods. While the
fish are chasing after schools of threadfin shad and blueback herring, Murphy said few of the hybrids and stripers he&rsquo. But this is the time of year that the game
fish are deep and you&rsquo. The fish are so deep, I&rsquo. s cleaned had more than one bait fish in their stomachs. Most of their fish are being caught on Capt. ve had to add three ounces of egg sinkers above the two-ounce rigs,&rdquo. A case in point: Billy Murphy and party caught 30 stripers and hybrids on Monday, 10 on Tuesday and only seven on Thursday. Smaller schooling hybrids are to be found during the early morning hours chasing shad in Clark Hill Park, the Church Cove and the mouth of Keg Creek.
Source: The Augusta Chronicle