The striped bass bite at Lake Mead is always shifting gears it seems, and though the majority of lineside catches run in the single digits through the year — aside from those occasional special times when everything lines up perfectly — there are certainly some trophy catches made here and there. One such recent catch highlighted the recent fishing at Mead in a big way.
“What a rare catch!” said Mike Graves of his friend Tom Walton of Palm Desert’s 30-pound lineside that he stuck on a recent early morning at Mead. “We caught the fish around 8:30 in the Vegas Wash. We were catching boiling stripers really good on top but getting some bigger fish a bit deeper, so Tom was bouncing a 42-gram ColtSniper off the bottom at around 30 feet when the fish hit.”
Apparently ColtSnipers aren’t just for tuna anymore.
As far as the current striper bite, the boils are getting fewer and further between and the majority of the lake’s jailbirds appear to have dropped down the water column for the time being.
