Cumberland stripers?

[apb]

...what do you consider to be the prime water temperature range for Stripers?

Around 64 is the optimal range. They'll do fine to the upper 40's, then slow down. They prefer temps below 70 and larger ones cannot take 70 degrees for any length of time.

Andrew

[cumberlandguy1]

Just got in and put the boat up. Went down the lake to my favorite fishing hole only to find 3 guide boats pulling about 7 boards each with live shad (guess somebody saw us Sunday LOL)....so we weaved our way through them and went a hundred yards or so below them. I figure that they probably had some upset clients as there were only 2 of us in the boat and we caught and released 7 stripers. Of course once we started catching fish, guess what? We could have tossed rocks in their boats! But the fish didn't seem to want live shad today as they only had 2 between them. We capped our day off with a double and didn't even fish anymore after that. Probably could have caught a dozen or so if we had stayed longer. I have plenty of fish in the freezer, so right now I'm trying to catch another one to mount. The stripers are on fire right now...come and get them. The guides were still there after we left, so I hoped they picked up some fish for their clients. (my tweaks are working)