HBob, I like the way you think. I don't know about jumps in the summer because I don't fish LC in the summer, but I do know that in the fall you can find them in the backs of creeks. Last fall my buddy and I got into some in the back of a creek that were busting small gizzards. We caught big whites and stripers in the same school. We were using Flitterbaits to "match the hatch" because those things look just like a small gizzard shad. We've caught them in the throw net trying to get shad also.

Mark, sorry.

Duayne, very intersting read. Makes alot of sense. I was told by a guy that has a 45 lber on his wall that the big gizzards stay in the main lake year round. There seem to be billions of gizzards in the creeks. I can't ever remember seeing that before. I think gizzards will put more weight on the stripers than either alewives or threadfins. Theory says that the stripes should start putting on some weight when these gizzards get big. Of course I would love to see trout stocked again.