Hey guys..I've been more of a lurker than a poster on here for the last year or two, but really got into striper fishing last fall and thought I would return the favor and start sharing some fishing reports.

I recently upgraded the pontoon with an I- pilot and new fishfinder and decided to take a chance and fish a little on Saturday and Sunday. I was a little leery about even going since most of the reports I had read still had the fish very deep and out on the main lake.

The wife and I spent most of the afternoon Saturday idling around messing with the new fishfinder. After seeing several schools of what I believed to be stripers, we caught up a bunch of bluegill for bait( since I hadn't planned on fishing I hadn't caught any shad the night before) and started fishing about 6pm. We fished 8 rods...2 down rods, 4 planer boards, and 2 floats. Everything was set between 20 and 30 ft deep. We ended up catching 1 about 24" before we had to head in.

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We ended going back out to the same spot on Sunday evening and catching 3 more. A 23", a 24", and a 28". All at about 25ft. I attched a couple of pictures of my graph showing the fish and bait. You can see the horizontal line at the bottom of one the pictures which is one of the bluegill I was pulling on one of the down rods. The other is a split screen showing both fish and bait on sonar and down imaging.

For the record, I was fishing the upper end of the lake about 3/4 of the way back in a creek! I guess they all don't go to the dam. I hope some one finds this helpful. I fish almost every weekend and will try to keep these post updated.

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