Anybody know C`land condition

[Fishwright]

Anybody been to Cumberland this week? I am going down Sunday to Striper fish and was wondering what the water temp was. I have read other posts and seen the debris is pretty bad and curious if the bite was any good.

[dcbasser]

Just got back from Conley Bottoms, the water had cooled off a little from when I was there Tuesday night. It was right at 77 when we got there and cooled on down to about 75 thru out the night. Debris seemed to be less than what it was but still some out there so be careful. Stripers and walleye came up between 3 and 4 but only for a short time. Heard several blow ups thru the night and fish semed to be a little more active just couldn't put any in the boat. Good luck.

[Don Smith]

Fished the Dam area last night, shad up by 1 AM and walleye around 2 AM. Bite really picked up about 3 AM, with Stripers showing up around 4. Bite lasted till daylight. Had 2 big Stripers on, both were 25-30 lbs fish. But as my luck has been all year they both pulled off. Several nice walleye. Redfin is the only bait I can get them to hit, subsurface baits were unproductive to say the least. No debris on the lake, little bit at Halcombs Landing, but none on the main lake that I could see. Fished from the Mouth of Indian all the way to the Dam, so I didn't venture out much as far as running the boat. Got fogged in at about 3:30 AM, and I figured it would kill the bite, but it actually seemed to help a little.

Take you GPS if you go tonight. Your gonna need it!

Hope this helps.

Don

[Fishwright]

Thanks for the info. Going to fish around Indian and Beaver, will report back.