Lucky Stripes Charters

January 2010 - Virginia Beach

Lucky Stripes and new sponsor Atlas Reels Team up for 2010 ASA

   We teamed up with our new sponsor, Atlas Reels, and headed down to Virginia Beach with the boat in tow to fish the Mid Atlantic Rockfish Shootout.   This would be the first stop of the 2010 ASA striper tournament series.

   With quickly dropping air and water temperatures we knew that we were in for some long runs and some tough fishing. Tuesday the 5th would be our first day of pre-fishing.  We were greeted at the boat ramp by a sheet of ice from the retreating tide which we would end up having to shovel out for the next 5 days.  From there we would have to break through ice for a stretch before reaching open water.  The first day we ran about 22 miles and found the fish thick and well within the 3 mile line. The second day of pre-fishing we found the fish  about 35 miles south, well within the 3 mile line and once again the fishing was great.

    Thursday-  First day of tournament.  With a ton of bass from 30-41 pounds caught and release during pre-fishing we were going in somewhat confident. The morning ritual remained the same.  On this day we had to run close to 45 miles south but the fish were still within the 3 mile line and thick again.  The only problem was that we were on smaller fish this day.  We got our 3 fish for the weigh in all around 32 pounds giving us a total weight of 96.85 pounds.  A respectable weight but not enough to place in the money as we ended in 22 place out of 144 boats and in 6th overall for the 2010 ASA.

See you in a couple months!  **

**Fishing reports will become weekly once the fishing turns    back on in our waters.  See you then

40.5 pounder caught on Jan. 6 2010 while prefishing for first stop of ASA . Pardon the foggy picture as boat and everything on it were covered in ice during the 22deg weather.