Late last summer I took Alex out on a trolling trip and it was one of those slow days. I promised Alex we’d get out again on my nickel, so today was the day. We caught fish from about 8 am till a little after lunch. I think we ended up with 8-10 nice stripers and 11 nice spots. We started out with 1 ounce Custom Trollers on leadcore and caught a couple of nice fish then we switched over to my 1 and a half and two ounce big shad head swimbaits when the sun got higher and caught most of our fish. I was using a couple of new colors today that made the difference in the shad head trollers. I used a hand poured pearl with blue highlighted swimbait and a blue pearl colored swimbait. They were loving them colors. Needless to say, we had a blast. Thanks for the company Alex! Here’s a video of some of the action.
 

I got out early this morning with a few very special guests; Legendary Outdoor writer Don Baldwin, his son-in-law Kevin and granddaughter Madison joined me for a early morning troll on Lanier. There was a very pleasant morning bite before the traffic invaded the lake. We were able to manage a few fish, mostly stripers and all were caught while trolling. We caught fish on a Blueback color pattern, chartruese over white and plain white, all 1 ounce and one and a half. Here’s a little video from this morning.