Cumberland striper report

[JUSTINHALL]

I fished all week with VMKY but in my own boat and had a tough time. VMKY caught more than I did, I never blanked but never got a school to play ball all at once. First time I have been on top of a school up in a cove and seeing them actively diving in and out of the school of shad and not take my bait. Was using shiners and maybe one of those days where shad would have paid off over shiners but they just would not bite the shiner. 3 different days was on a very active school but would touch my shiners.
Stripernut1 you did see me I was out there but not sure what your boat looks like so didn't know it was you if you passed me.
Hopefully the cooler weather will get them going soon, nothing better than some jumps at day light.

[stripernut1]

big change (for me anyway) this morning. i have been hitting the deep deep fish like everybody else for the last month, but i had a couple of my fishing partners "lose" a school that had been 80 feet deep for 3 weeks , they searched the general area and "found" them....in 30 feet of water.
so this morning i decided to look for the shallower schools, didnt take long to find them, 30 feet deep in 45 feet of water, dropped 4 live baits down and immediate hook up on all 4 rods.
hopefully the lethargic , lazy, light hitting fish on the bottom thing will be over soon! boring lol.
checked out 3 schools and found the same results, all had moved shallower. caught 9 total this morning, 0 misses, and 0 lost fish.
not a bad morning

good luck to all

[adam7456]

I was just going to ask what time of year or water temp do the fish start moving up. stripernut1 what water temp were you seeing this morning? These cold nights should be cooling the lake down pretty good. Do the fish always go from that deep shallow that quick?

[stripernut1]

I was just going to ask what time of year or water temp do the fish start moving up. stripernut1 what water temp were you seeing this morning? These cold nights should be cooling the lake down pretty good. Do the fish always go from that deep shallow that quick?

78 before daylight, so the cool nights are affecting to the surface temp. 79.6 at the ramp at 9ish, very bright sun warmed the surface pretty quick.
the fish are pretty much doing what they are supposed to do with cooler temps, the only thing is the more "active" these fish become the more they will move, and in turn be more difficult to keep up with. but hey thats the fun of it, if we wanted "easy" we would go to captain D's.