Stripers Today

Spent 5 hours bass fishing all around Indian Creek all the way up to Rowena this evening and didnt see one single striper floundering on the surface. We did see 17 bloated stripers that were faded out and probably 3-4 days old. We did see 5 walleye that were very recently deceased they still had alot of color in their gills. This is the first day since August 29th that we havent seen a striper swimming upside down on the surface.....i hope this is a good thing. most of the water we fished this evening bounced from 81 to 82 degrees, a big change from the 87-88 degree water from just a week and a half ago. Another thing we noticed was several dead alewives , very big alewives, have they suffered the same distress as the stripers? dont know for sure,i just dont remember dead alewives in fish kills of years past. Anyway heres to things maybe looking up!:confused:

Sounds encouraging and more 40-50 degree nights coming.

Thankyou for the first hand update.

[QUOTE=HURRICANEBOB;426659]Sounds encouraging and more 40-50 degree nights coming.[/QUOTE]


X2 :)

Wonderful wonderful news. Very much appreciate the first hand updates. I would think they are on the back side of the striper kill. Hope the Walleye kill doesn't pick up. With the early numbers being reported, my worst fear was a massive or total kill.

just got off the water on friday morning. didnt see a single floater, talked to another guide and he didnt see a single striper either. did see a bunch of really big boats though, really big and really loud, the downpour didnt slow em down a bit lol;)

Great news!

-Rich

Fished Cumberland last night & wore the spots out & caught a few Largemouth too. No Smallmouth, however did loose 2 pretty good fish. Saw a lot of baitfish & never saw a single Striper or any other fish for that matter floating. There were some pretty big fish of some kind busting on top every now & then that I thank were Striper. I think the worst is over hopefully.

hey les know what you mean, it was probably the BEST day of spot fishing ive had in ten years, the 12 spots we kept that we cleaned filled two gallon bags with filets. this morning was a different story though, kinda got wet for nothing.

Thats great news. I might have to switch gears again and instead of going to Norris this fall just might stay with cumberland. I will keep close tabs on reports though because the fact is we just don't know how bad it was. I still say that while they are working on the dam they might as well put in an aeration system to help get the stripers and walleye through the summer months. Cherokee did that and put restrictions on the stripers. They also started stocking hybrid stripers to take pressure off the stripers. I love that lake. I'm not advocating hybrids being stocked, no my point is that TN jumped all over the problem and got results. I wouldn't mind seeing trout being stocked to go along with the aeration system. Striper candy!

hey morone, we have 3 boats planning to go to norris in november as soon as we get our deer tags filled. when were you thinking about going?
its been 6 years since i have been to norris but we did ok the last time we went. by the way, it was AWFUL below the dam today, it STINKS so bad from all the stiper and walleye carcases. i know we didnt lose all the stripers but it is sickening to see just how many we did lose. it does look like its over ? i hope its over?