Fishin’ With Capt. Gus! Labor Day Fishing September 4, 2011

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4 at a time – Deanna Bradish of Denver, NC keeping a string of white perch caught on an August, fishing trip on Lake Norman.

Fishin’ With Capt. Gus!
Labor Day Fishing
September four, 2011

Labor Day weekend is upon us and it’s time for a weekend of household fishing entertaining. Get an early commence. The best chance of catching fish is usually from 6:thirty-8:00 a.m. Early early morning fishermen will have the lake to themselves, and you won’t have to brave the wakes of pleasure boats. A 3rd gain is that early morning is normally the coolest portion of a late summer time day.

If your fishing partners are kids, try out your luck with bream and white perch. Bream are less difficult to locate and catch. They can be found in water less than four feet deep along virtually any financial institution with sand, rocks or fallen trees. A worm, attached to a modest hook, a split shot and a bobber placed a foot or two above the bait, is all you want. Bream typically swim in “bunches”. When you catch one particular, there need to be far more. For greatest benefits, enthusiast cast the location from deep to shallow before heading down the lender.

White perch are simpler to track down with a fish finder. Appear for them off river and secondary details or in the deeper sections of coves. If you don’t have a sonar unit (fish finder), drift above a probable spot with worms, small pieces of lower-bait, or crappie minnows suspended among fifteen and fifty ft under the surface.

Bass fishing has been quite great to excellent early in the early morning. The very best bite is just ahead of sun-up. Anglers who cast their favored top rated water lures toward rip-rapped factors and fallen timber have had fantastic achievement. River and secondary points are great locations to bottom bump delicate plastics, rigged Carolina or drop-shot design. Comfortable plastics lizards and worms in watermelon or pumpkin seed colors are obtaining great results.

Channel and tiny blue cat fish are staying caught in back coves and about boat piers. Table scraps, stink baits and refreshing bream or perch are superb bait options. Bigger blues and flatheads can be located whilst drifting or sluggish trolling comparable baits in deeper h2o.

Striper fishing is “hit and miss” considering that the July fish kill, but a couple of are becoming caught whilst trolling, deep jigging and drifting live baits. Finest spots to fish for them are in the river channel above the State Park and in the deep water around channel markers, D3, D2 and 3.

Forthcoming Events:
Free Secure Boating Class – “How to Navigate Lake Norman Day or Night” will be held at North Point Watersports, 112 Doolie Street, Mooresville, NC 28117 on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 from 6:thirty p.m. – eight:00 p.m. Subjects for discussion will incorporate “Understanding Lake Norman’s Channel Marker and Buoy System”, “Identifying and Learning How to Avoid the Ten Most Harmful Spots”, and “Interpreting Lake Maps”. For a lot more details, phone me: 704-617-6812 or electronic mail Gus@LakeNoman.com.

Free of charge Fishing Seminar – “Frequently Asked Queries about Lake Norman Fishing” – Jake Bussolini and I will solution your fishing questions on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at 6:30 p.m. at Gander Mountain, Exit 36 in Mooresville, NC. This session will be of fantastic fascination to these new to lake fishing and intrigued in catching bass, cats, crappie, perch and stripers. Bring your inquiries to this educational seminar. For additional details, contact 704 658 0822

The Lake Norman Sail &amp Electricity Squadron is conducting “Boater Basic safety Training” on Saturday, September 24th commencing at eight:00 a.m. at the Duke Vitality Environmental Center in Huntersville. The expense is $ 45.00. Pre-registration is required. Check out: www.usps.org/lakenorman or phone Bob Yannacci at 704 660 5568.

Ideas from Gus!

To return to a spot, mark it with a buoy. A buoy can be produced with a plastic bottle, a length of cord and a excess weight, or buoys can be purchased at your favorite tackle shop for a couple of bucks each and every.

Scorching Spots of the Week:

White perch carry on to please each younger and previous. Hundreds of tiny perch can be caught in h2o from twenty to thirty ft deep, but fish weighing up to a pound, are off factors in h2o to fifty feet deep. Bass fishing is shockingly great taking into consideration the warmth. Very best bets are leading water lures are dawn, dusk and following-darkish. Catfish are moving again into the creeks, a confident indication that fall is not far absent.

Surface area h2o temperature varies by location, but is mainly in the mid to large eighties in open up waters not affected by electricity era. The water level is about four.eight ‘ below full pond on Lake Norman and two.9’ under total on Mountain Island Lake.

Capt. Gus Gustafson of Lake Norman Ventures, Inc. is an Outside Columnist and a full time Expert Fishing Guidebook on Lake Norman, NC. Visit his world wide web internet site, www.FishingWithGus.com or phone 704-617-6812.