Cumberland Stripers ?

[thunderstorm]

Thanks for the updates. Dad and I planned to go down early last week, but I got sick and couldn't go. Maybe next year lol

[kstonich]

At least the weather was warm, fished mouth of Indian to about 3/4s of a way back. Decided I'd try pulling rigs instead of bait this trip. Well in about 1 hr I was minus about $100 worth of Picasso rigs and a very sick feeling in my stomach. One snag kept 3 rigs , an expensive l experience. I didn't upgrade my line weight to have any chance of getting my gear back.
I switched over to looking for birds in Indian and chucking top water. Jumps were not jumps just birds picking up the stripers/bass/walleyes left overs.
I was throwing my typical super spook for nada. Then after a quick bird flurry I saw what they were eating, baby shad about 1" long. I had been seeing these very tight balls of bait in my side scan.
Switched over to a 2 1/4" white splash it. Caught 1 keeper around 16lbs, 4 small mouth 12" to 16" and 2 largemouth about 1 1/2lbs.And I had a to me a huge striper swirl up at my lure about 10" from the boat it dwarfed the one in my live well.
For me it was more lessons learned.

[Tacklebag23]

[COLOR=#343434]I feel your pain on teh "A Rigs". Get mad every time I lose one. A couple trips ago I got A rig hung.10 mins no luck then got bait knocker hung too. 5 mins. broke twine on bait knocker. thought all was lost and about ready to give up and somehow A rig came loose and still had knocker on it.

Nice job catching them feeding and in jumps. [/COLOR]