Some basic patterns for Stripers surface feeding at Cumberland include:
- Apr-Early June, when the shad are mating at the bank at night, top water lures work, with occasional surface jumps in the AM, but very early.
- Oct-Dec, main lake, and creeks see surface action as the Stripers push the juvenile shad either to the backs of the creeks, or pin them to the surface over deeper water as the shad migrate to the main lake.

I'd like to be able to hit Stripers and or Hybrids in the jumps or night time surface feeding anywhere in the Ohio River from McAlpin to say about 5-10 miles south of Brandenburg. I routinely ramp in at Greenwood, Salt, or Brandenburg.

I've have never personally seen Striper or Hybrid jumps in the Ohio, but think it happens, I'm just totally without a clue what the pattern is and where and or during what months.

What advice can you all share? (Please, no recommedations to sell the boat, quit fishing, quit writing here, and take up knitting).