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?