Cumberland stripers?

[Chubminnow]

Cumberlandguy1 - Thanks for your report, it sounds like you have the stripers figured out fairly well. I'm not defending any guides nor am I going to crack on what you said about how many times a guide has been skunked or not, but I would think a guide stands a better chance of being skunked more than twice over a seventeen year period simply because he's on the lake more than someone who is not a guide. It has more to do with the law of averages, percentages, etc...In my own personal experience I have only used a guide one time in my life and on this one particular occassion, yes we got skunked. I will tell you the guide wasn't none to happy about it and he did try making up for it somehow although now I can't remember what he offered, either he discounted that trip we took or he offered to give us another guided trip at a reduced rate, I can't remember which it was. At any rate, thanks for the information you provided.

Striperfishin - Were you trolling or casting when you caught the walleye's at night?

[striperfishin]

The walleye was caught on a point out by the Beaver/Otter Sign on a Blue sliver. All fish were caught casting between midnight and 3 am.

We probably had a few other walleyes on but they got off. There is definitely a different fight. All the stripers hit the slivers and came up afterwards and biled repeatedly on top of the water after the hook-ups. Then they took off under the boat to deeper water.

[cumberlandguy1]

I didn't mean to take a stab at any of the guides...I was just curious to how often it happens to them. As a matter of fact, one of the best guides on the lake taught me what to look for, how to find them, and then how to get them to bite. If you want to learn something about stripers, I would highly recommend Jeff Burton who works with Nancy Guide Service.

[striperfishin]

I didn't mean to take a stab at any of the guides...I was just curious to how often it happens to them. As a matter of fact, one of the best guides on the lake taught me what to look for, how to find them, and then how to get them to bite. If you want to learn something about stripers, I would highly recommend Jeff Burton who works with Nancy Guide Service.

so how do u find them on those TOUGH days. WHen the sun comes up, you cant graph a fish all day and it gets very difficult unless u bottom fish.

[cumberlandguy1]

I've never had to bottom fish.....I can usually find them...even if it takes me a couple of hours!

[mhall]

I've never had to bottom fish.....I can usually find them...even if it takes me a couple of hours!

Dude if you can catch fish like that all the time you can make a killing guiding. I mean to never have zero or blanked days, I know of no one that can say that.

[cumberlandguy1]

I didn't say never...LOL...I've had 2. As for guiding, I know people that do it and they still have full time jobs as well. Let's see, rate $300. Let's say you fish 200 days a year = 60,000 before taxes, gas, lost lures,boat maintenance, and $27,600 a year for a slip. Plus the you have to look at some the customers who are real pains in the butt even if you are catching fish. I make just a touch ouver $100k a year now so why switch? No thanks

[cumberlandguy1]

But I would take you fishing for free!

[mhall]

But I would take you fishing for free!

Watch it, I just might take you up on that one.

[cumberlandguy1]

Hey, just let me know....I had a typo with the boat slip...LOL...I meant 2700 a year. I plan on hitting the lake Friday. Hope the water doesn't muddy up. That's when I struggle.

[Chubminnow]

Cumberlandguy - Looking forward to you bringing us back a report after you hit the lake Friday. The extended outlook for the weather forecast looks like we might start seeing a warming trend sometime towards the middle to end of next week (16th - 20th). What I'm hoping for is prime-time hits the following week after (23rd - 27th). It's been unseasonably cool for the past two weeks which has kept the water cooler, under 55 degree's at the surface as of this post....Of course it takes Cumberland a while to warm up anyway, but what do you consider to be the prime water temperature range for Stripers?

[cumberlandguy1]

The funny thing is that I fished all of December and January with the water temp down in the low 40's....and still managed to limit out. Just look for water that is a couple of degrees warmer than everything else....and hang on.