Walleye/ Striper on cumberland last night?

[JoeB]

The fishing has been great until the full moon came into play. Give the moon a few days to dim and I expect the good bite will return.

[scragley]

Had some family members fish Friday and Sat. night.. Friday night, I believe they caught one walleye and two smallies.. The biggest Smallmouth being 4 1/2 pounds.. I think Sat. night only yielded one Large mouth.. Little to no shad and 4 blow ups total.. Doesn't sound to good right now.. I'm hoping for a moon change and some stable weather before I take the 3 and half hour drive down there..

[HURRICANEBOB]

I too went of Jamestown Friday night about 10 pm, and fished till 10 am, here's the detailed run down.

a. With the moon up, dark banks in the first couple turns of Wolfe held shad, but no Striper pops. Believe it or not, the only major shad raising a major ruccus and Striper popping I heard was on the fully moon lit banks. Go figure.
b. When the moon set right close to dawn, more pops were heard in the same areas that had been moon lit before, the banks that had been dark seem to get more shad up, but still no pops. Main lake walls from J-town to Lilly and Wolfe just seem dead to me from 10 pm till I gave them up around 1 am.
c. At dawn and for 1-2 hours there after, we found surface feeding Stripers in small groups, say 20-30 fish, chasing bait back into the small coves and slews in Wolfe. Ya know where the new Allegator 1/Cave Spring dock is? If you put the dock to your back, head out to the mouth of Wolfe, look to the right side no wake buoy, then see the bank and slew right behind the buoy. Check that area out at sun up. Follow that rock gravel bank down and half way down it there is a small cove, watch that for surface action. Then continue down the bank till it cuts to the right and heads up a deep slew. We saw shad getting hit at the surface there, single strikes or 2 or 3 pops as they chased schools of shad they had pinned at the surface, along both the right and left bank, as well as dead center the slew. Go deeper into the slew and right at the back of it, it breakes to a Y with 2 small covers on either side. Sit 30 feet back from that intersection, watch the two coves, and the point that seperates them. We saw a big 20-30 fish massed attack on shad that was pinned in that cove.
d. While in this area, I'd run a couple boards out off each side with no weights, and a couple down poles with shad down 10-12 feet. One of those might score as a school of shad flees up the slew running from the chasing Stripers.

I'd also think about check the first 2-3 turns in Lilly, for the same reasons. We go there late, but did see a couple blow ups. And I'm sure they were bass, cause these guys when they hit were throwing some serious geysers.

Redfins scored. Zora Spooks failed with a constant walk drawing too many short strikes. They will score if you walk 2-3 times then stop, count 2 to 3 seconds, then walk 2-3 more times, and repeat. If ya got one, try a Castiac Shad, Gizzard size and just slo roll it, I had some follows and some bumps, but no hook ups.

Make ya a deal, now that I spilled my guts on my spot. If ya see a burgundy pontoon with a smiley face like the avatar in this area, leave me a little room and I'll share it with ya.