Patoka

[GeoFisher]

Wow....never heard of a hybrid Striper getting that big!!!!! What a fight that would be....I've had a 12-13 lber. pull a 20 ft. bass around in a circle!!!! I doubt there was one really that big, but who knows.

They stocked PURE Strain stripers...........not hybrids in Patoka. I believe there are now some hybrids there, but the stocking program added Stripers.

Later,

Geo

[fishNnut]

You know how rumors are. There is suppose to be a picture of it in a bait shop around the lake somewhere (maybe reporter know something about it?). I was told the guy that caught it did not know that it would be a state record and they were trying to track him down. I would guess that the owner of the bait shop would know that the fish was a record

[ugglyotter]

I heard them talking about this at Poor Boys one morning. That thing would be a monster. Is anyone catching any bass? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[Dakota Kid]

I found good ones, just couldn't hook em. All in the shallow grass.

[lroberts]

They stocked PURE Strain stripers...........not hybrids in Patoka. I believe there are now some hybrids there, but the stocking program added Stripers.

Later,

Geo

Ahhh...did not know that! Never fished it before so wasn't up to snuff! Do they reproduce there??

[raporter]

Ahhh...did not know that! Never fished it before so wasn't up to snuff! Do they reproduce there??

I heard that rumor too. Don't really know if it is anything other than that. The stripers do not reproduce in Patoka. Got an email from Dan Carnahan(District biologist) and he said they had lost almost all the stripers at the hatchery. May be some lean times for a while.

I did almost catch the grandslam of bass today. Caught some largemouths, a striper, a white bass and a yellow bass. All I needed was one smallie but just couldn't find one. Also caught several nice crappie.

[ugglyotter]

Thanks raporter

[ElectricSLT]

Raporter - did he mention what happen to the stripers? That is too bad to lose the hatchery stripers.

I can't seem to catch those brown fish at Patoka - I have had buddies in my boat catch em - but they won't bite what I've been throwing...

[fishNnut]

Raporter - did he mention what happen to the stripers?

They died from a virus.

[skore50]

I used to have a place in the wildridge rv resort at Patoka and would fish the lake many times over the summer months. Yes there were some big stripers in Patoka. In 2007 I caught one weighing 20 lbs, 5 ozs. Got a picture of it and will post it if my daughter will come and show me how. I had a 6" bluegill on each of four rods. What a blast

[Moveon]

I used to have a place in the wildridge rv resort at Patoka and would fish the lake many times over the summer months. Yes there were some big stripers in Patoka. In 2007 I caught one weighing 20 lbs, 5 ozs. Got a picture of it and will post it if my daughter will come and show me how. I had a 6" bluegill on each of four rods. What a blast

Steve the picture of your fish is on your facebook page. Just search facebook for your name and you will see the picture as your profile picture. There are several Steve XXXXXX names in the list when I googled your name. But it's easy to figure out which one is you as the picture shows your 20 lb striper. Not many guys have a picture of a 20 lb striper in the facebook profile picture. Nice fish.

I have a friend that's had a camp at the WildRidge RV Resort up at Newton Stewart and he's fished Patoka since it was first filled up. He would drive around the camp in a Golf Cart with his Dog Bandit. A little black and white Shitshoe. SP? My friend's name is Larry. I bet you have seen him around the lake in his Crestliner Boat out there fishing. He has a Mercy 150 HP motor on the back of his boat.

I talked to Larry on the phone today while he was out fishing on Patoka Lake. He caught some nice largemouth bass in the warm waters. They were up in the stumps. He also caught some nice crappie too. But there are so many little 8" crappie in the lake that you have to wade though them to get a big one worth keeping. He didn't clean any crappie so he could not see any eggs. I asked him to keep a few next time and check on the eggs to check for the spawn time. He did say that the water temp where he fished was in the lower 60's and it was at the surface. It was colder a few feet below the surface. He has a meter that he can lower down into the water and measure the temperature and various depths.

[skore50]

I think that's great that my picture with my striper is out there. Turned it loose. sometimes I wish I had put it on my wall but I didn't. And that's okay but I do have the picture for all eternity.
That fish on the wall-could have been anybody's. My picture holding that fish-eliminates some doubt about who caught it.

ONE OF THE BEST 12-15 MINUTES OF MY LIFE