The perfect storm

[onemorecast56]

Well you guys are going to find out how crazy I am. I went to the river tonight with my buddy. Just showers at 4 so we took off and got our bait,which was easy to find. And took off for the lower gates. We got up there and no a hit. So we went drifting for cats,,,nothing, figured it was going to be another bust. We that Big storm caught us and we couldn`t get back to Greenwood so we just was going to stick it out tell this little shower passed. As I was heading for the corner, i seen so stripers bust on top,,,threw down the trolling motor,,,first cast.....nice 6 lber,,,kenny got one too. We it got to raining so hard you couldn`t see,hear, nothing. I had on 2 rain suits and still got soaked quick,,,we huddled under a umpella and finily we said,,,,xxxx it and started casting our maic bait. Thunder, lighting,,,pee pee pouring, bam, bam, bam,...we started getting 7-9`s,,,hell let her RAIN!!!!!!!! I was having a blast,,we even got 6 sauger. We got a break in the rain and I high tailed to greenwood....drowned rats yes,,,,fun? off the scale!

[Shimano4Life]

Thanks for sharing! Why is it that when the weather conditions are at their worst, the fishing is at its best? I guess the bass know when no anglers will be around..........

[mhall]

Way to Go Doug and yes, you are Nuts, lol.

[Chubminnow]

Yea I'd say this qualifies for being a bit on the crazy side.

[onemorecast56]

Well guys your right,,well we ended up catching 25-30 stripers..I didn`t know that it had rainned 4-5 inches,,,well maybe as wet as my butt was. LOL.I had to keep the bilge pump on the whole time, and when I went to ge ton a plane,I had so much water in her she wouldn`t get up on a plane till i got all the water that was in the front pumped out. I know I got 1 waterlogged boat,,,it`ll never dry out. I`m going to try and put the pic of the fish on the photo board if I can figure it out...

[Chubminnow]

Lightning tends to freak me out when I'm on the lake..makes me head for cover quick. Even though you're a nut I bet it was still pretty cool to be out there when you were.

[onemorecast56]

well i know I need to find me a great rain suit...my gore-tex ain`t gore-texing we both had gore-tex on but that didn`t matter in that rain. Who makes a nice rain suit,,has to have bib`s with it. But as far as the lighting,,,my butt was puckered a few times and ducking..but beleive me,,,if the stripers hadn`t had come up when they did,,but butt would have been home,,but got to catching them and next thing you know....toooooo late soride it out. God love the DNR over there,they kept coming down the ramp checking to see if we drowned or got hit by lighting,,would have loved to have known what he was thinking about them crazy guys that don`t have the sence to come in out of the rain,,,

[riverrat12]

Way to go Doug, I did pretty fair Fri. on the cats. Remember last year when you and I got into the stripes after the hard rain. Man they are a blast when there hittin on top. Hope to see you guy's down there again soon. Just called the dam and the guy sounds a little discombobulated giving the report...the perfect storm for sure. Chuck

[Tyme2fish]

I've got an appointment with Doug to do some work on my boat this Thursday. I might have to rethink this as I now know he is one crazy son of a gun!!

[Tyme2fish]

Way to go Doug, I did pretty fair Fri. on the cats. Remember last year when you and I got into the stripes after the hard rain. Man they are a blast when there hittin on top. Hope to see you guy's down there again soon. Just called the dam and the guy sounds a little discombobulated giving the report...the perfect storm for sure. Chuck

LOL. I just called McAlpine too and I've never heard a report like that one. I knew someone had posted on this and the word "discombobulated" fits perfectly. You nailed it riverrat.

Basicaly, the guy on the phone message, says "The three day forecast,er, well, you might as well disregard because the forecast for the lower is 11 too 11.1 and we're already running 15 feet.

That was the 10:00 AM reading to be updated at 2:00 PM and I called at 5:00 PM.

[onemorecast56]

well as you know all our water comes from up river. just cause we got alot of rain here don`t mean a big raise coming. Hey as long as it stays elow 20 ft I`m in good shape.

[HURRICANEBOB]

stick it out tell this little shower passed. As I was heading for the corner, i seen so stripers bust on top!

Hey Doug. Where is the corner?

To all: I enjoy fishing Stripers in the jumps, but for the life of me can't seem to find them in the Ohio.

From Brandenburg Ramp to McAlpine. Where are some of the places this tends to happen? I'm guess given the river, its going to be mainly on flats that border the main channel. Any help appreciated.

And I'll pay in advance: At Cumberland, best places I've found for October Striper jumps are:
a. Out of Jamestown no wake turn left toward Lilly, work the walls to the first two cuts on your left. Also Keep eyes on mouth of Wolfe, Lilly, and across main lake to just where the channnel meets the flats.
b. First turn in mouth of Lilly to the mouth.
c. Entering Wolf, first turn to right, cut on the right side, and walls on far side of Wolfe.
d. Bay at the mouth of Beaver behind the island.
e. Up in to Greasy, around the first left turn, outside rock banks on the left side, and on the right side near the pontoon dock, then up further into Greasy, on the walls on the left side.