Striper help on Cumberland

[cumberlandguy1]

We caught a few. We had about 15 minutes of action and then 5 hours of nothing. LOL. Typical striper fishing this time of year. We only had 1 keeper out of 6 fish.

[aceoky]

Thanks for the report!

The only time I got to go this year, we had severe storms (bad cloud to ground lightening etc.) out of an afternoon only got to fish half hour or so, caught one short fish (22")

[cumberlandguy1]

It's rained on me the last 4 times I've went. LOL....going tomorrow...it will rain again.

[HURRICANEBOB]

I had luck working tight to the banks just north of Jamestown on the walls on the right side of the lake across from Wolfe Creek. Downpoles with shiners at 25-30 feet in 30-40 feet of water and I mean as tight to the banks as a downpole that deep will let you. Did same thing with planer boards and light or no weight with bait 25 feet behind boards in the first turn and bay in Otter Creek. We came in with the banks on our right and ran the boards about 25-30 feet off the bank and as close as 10 feet off the bank till we got hit.

BassPRO in Jamestown has Gizzard shad. Our bites came equally on shad and shiners.

Best bite was night of 12th, north of the mouth of Wolfe, and over the main lake. Jumps came up in the middle of the lake, then moved to the little inlet bay on the same side of the lake as the mouth of Wolfe and just north of Wolfe. If jumps first came up at about 530 EST and lasted till about 730 EST, rather small groups, short duration jumps, jumps started about every 20minutes or so. Fish we caught in the jumps were all keepers with the biggest being a 29 incher. Silver Zora Spook , Hopkins Spoons 2 ounce, and a Blue/Silver Redfin drew hits and hookups.