Re: the last 2 day Lake Mead trip this year.....
Then by the time it freezes, the water is all evaporated from sitting for a few months. Im still kindof leary on trying to drain all the water from the block each time i bring it home. what if i dont get it all? im kinda paranoid about stuff like that i guess.
The water in the block won't evaporate since it's sealed up, no place to go unless you drain it. It doesn't get cold enough the freeze and crack a block too often here in the desert, but it does happed. I didn't know to drain the block for years and never had a problem, guess I might have dodged a bullet, but I'm draining from now on in the cold months. On my old boat I had to replace the petcocks as they were stuck and wouldn't open. A trip to Lowes, $10 and an hour later they were all replaced, easy fix.
Chovies or sardines are good for bait-n-wait, you can also jig for fish if you are marking them deep, or topwater plugs if they are chasing shad. When I fished Mead a lot (night) I'd anchor in a deep cove or dropoff, throw out some chum and rig up a couple bait rods. During the day I'd be throwing an assortment of small "shad like"lures, RattleTrap, KastMaster, little shad swim baits. There's also largemouth and smallies in the overton arm, but I never really fished for them.
Run a search on "striper" and my username as I posted up a striper 101 fishing thing a while back. A few guys posted back that it worked for them.