Quote Originally Posted by waterdog101 View Post
the shad are not up real good, but good enough for the striper bit to be good. the top water bit on the bomber long A magnum, is very slow. but the bit on the black and silver colored sliver is red hot right now. had a blast last night with it. and put 3 keepers in the boat. for those who don't know the game, get their around 10pm look for cliff walls with deep water, be quiet, cut off lights, troll close to the wall, and cast clost to the wall, in front of and behind boat, throw the two baits, that are listed above, and hold on. cumberland is full of fish, I hope this helps someone catch some.
Thanks for the info. I new it should be starting soon but it is nice to know that it has and fish have been caught. Happens every year at about 60 degree water temp (if I remember correctly). The usual spots might have folks on all the points or walls and weekends will likely be relatively crowded. It's that time of year.

I was in Indian last weekend from dark to midnight and did not hear one striper hitting the surface nor did I see one other boat but I did easily catch Alewives under a light including about (4) 7 inchers. I was in about 80-90 feet of water. Not sure if that matters this time of year but I think it will about late June. Thought I had the "secret weapon" for the next day of fishing but caught no stripers. Got some other bad reports for last Sunday (4-11) too...so maybe I had the Cruise missile of cumberland but no active targets around. It was brutal too. After netting bait , had to clean a fish (from Sat evening) at 11:30 at Grider hill and them pull the boat out of the water. Got to bed at 2 am. and back up at 5:30 am. Such is stripper night fishing. Makes me want to consider just using shinners so some sleep could be had for the next days fishing.

Thanks to all that have provided fishin info to the folks on the site.

Happy Fishing

Peter (Fishin.com)