4-23-10

I headed out west today to the Roanoke River to do some Striper fishing with a buddy of mine Tim. We left the beach at 4am. and was on the water by 7. Takes a few hours to get there but if you don't get to the ramp early you will be sitting forever trying to get in the water. We tried with jigs for a few hours with no avail so we called the local tackle shop and they brought us some Shad minnows down to us, pretty good service. As we waited for the minnows we saw a guy standing at the ramp with a Hardees bag full of food so we traded a little fishing for some breakfast, not a bad deal. He said his name was Tracey, so that's what I called him, come to find out he owns the local Discount Tire shop there in Roanoke Rapids and was a pretty good guy. We went about fishing and had a pretty good day until we ran out minnows, we caught about 15 Fat daddys. If your planning on going make sure you get enough bait before you go as all the shops ran out. It's best if you run up to Lake Gaston catch them yourself we just didn't have the time to do so.