Boone and JustinHall check your pm. Justin, thanks for the help. I'll give that a try as well.
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Boone and JustinHall check your pm. Justin, thanks for the help. I'll give that a try as well.
[QUOTE=cumberlandguy1;386831]Boone and JustinHall check your pm. Justin, thanks for the help. I'll give that a try as well.[/QUOTE]
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Hey Cumberlandguy1, what did you catch your fish on?
Monroe, most of my fish were caught on a flitterbait!
Does anyone have the phone number of Smack Tackle? Thanks.
[QUOTE=Bonefish;386979]Does anyone have the phone number of Smack Tackle? Thanks.[/QUOTE]
Bonefish, see link below;
[URL]http://www.smacktackle.com/retailoutlets/ky.html[/URL]
cumberlandguy1, I'm a little confused about youre request for help on catching stripers here on the big C. Did you not make this post on this forum or maybe I'm confused?
“I learned to use my fish finder....after that all you have to do is get them to bite. I've been fishing Cumberland for 17 years, so I have figured out what to look for. During the mornings and evenings, I throw crankbaits (Gizz 4 from SmackTackle.com) and during the day I pull 2 ounce bucktails with a 6 inch curly tail. I have only been skunked twice in 17 years. Wonder how many of the guides can say this? ;-)”
I had been really struggling lately. Had a friend in town that loves to striper fish. We were catching a few, but they were small. A big thanks to Noah Lacher and Justin Hall for pointing me in the right direction! Just when I think I've got it figured out the fish do something weird.
Noah is a good guy. He knows his stripers and can put you on them. Cant wait to get down in a couple of months and see if we can crank some up.
Hey Justin, it was good to meet you this afternoon. You might want to try that little area I told you about. We have caught some quality fish there this week. Looks like I'll be fishing in the rain in the morning. It's my last day to fish until next Thursday. I have an empty seat a lot of times when I fish, so give me a yell.
We had luck this past weekend up in the creeks in the indian creek area. There were large jumps saturday about 10 EST and 8:45 EST Sunday which lasted about 20 minutes. There would be smaller shorter jumps periodically. We also caught fish the same days after the jumps fishing the same area from the surface to 25 ' deep. Mainly near the bank but the fish are in the middle too. Most hits came on planner boards 1/8 sinker with about 12 foot of line out. If we were pulling boards and saw surface fish nearby we would turn up the trolling motor and floor it over to where they were jumping...you can pull shinners pretty fast and they do OK.
From the reports I have read sounds like the fish are in many different places and being caught by various methods.
Not sure about this but I have meen using the smallest shinners I can find.
The bait I have seen on the surface in the backs of the creeks is 1.5 to 2 inches long.
Peter