Stripers

[HURRICANEBOB]

I did Cland from J-town last Saturday, but fished mouth of Beaver in the bay on the right behind the island. Fish marked up in tight packs at 40 feet, with some roving groups at the 20 foot mark. We boat 2 in the first couple hours out on shiners on boards at about 35-25 feet, light weights, small hooks.

Walls on the left side as you face Jamestown also held fish 100 feeet out from bank over 80-100 foot with baits to same 25-35 foot range. Couple pull downs and runs but no hook ups.

I am gonna try again soon, but this time when the big school marks up, I'm gonna stop and sit on them, and jig spoons off the bow while the live bait "Boils" under the boards behind me.

Water temp surface was 89. Both fish caught were released, and immediately went "T"'s up, retrieved and kept. Probably would have gone to jail. Biggest was 15, smallest was 13...........INCHES!

Big rain storm around 6 pm. Man, I love this hardtop. Dry and comfy.

And of course, the folks at Jamestown on teh house boats were partying their butts off when we ramped in at 4 pm, and still going strong at 12 pm.
Only talked with 6 folks, so not generalizing, but all 6 of them were some seriously arrogant snot nosed brats. Punks can be over 40, and this trip proved it.

[HURRICANEBOB]

What areas do you all target to catch giizards? Back up the creeks, or have they moved out to main lake?

[stripernut]

hey hurricane i would have told you to catch gizzards in the back of caney.....until this morning ....GONE! didnt catch one single gizzard shad this morning, so we boiled shiners for 2 hrs.....nothing! man these shiners dont even last 5 minutes in this hot water, too expensive to just throw in the water and watch em die

[JoeB]

Most of the better fish are too deep to catch with live bait right now. I can't get anything but dinks shallower that 50 ft. Catching limits of 26 - 28 in fish around 70 ft deep just outside the channel with riggers.

[peter]

I checked Indian, Brown and West Fork Sunday from about 9 to 11 and saw and netted no gizzards. Saw tons of 1.5 inch threadfins.

hindsight--should have just kept fishing with my shiners and saved a lot of time and gas money.

[Chubminnow]

The folks at Jamestown on the house boats were partying their butts off when we ramped in at 4 pm, and still going strong at 12 pm.
Only talked with 6 folks, so not generalizing, but all 6 of them were some seriously arrogant snot nosed brats. Punks can be over 40, and this trip proved it.

Not to get off the subject matter of the thread...but every dag gone weekend it seems like every marina on Cumberland ain't nothin' but one huge party...Since I "try" to sleep on my boat at the dock it kind of tends to wear me out real fast. I've heard Somerset Boat Club up in Beaver Creek is more my speed (aka- quiet)...one of these days I'm gonna check it out.

[JoeB]

Not to get off the subject matter of the thread...but every dag gone weekend it seems like every marina on Cumberland ain't nothin' but one huge party...Since I "try" to sleep on my boat at the dock it kind of tends to wear me out real fast. I've heard Somerset Boat Club up in Beaver Creek is more my speed (aka- quiet)...one of these days I'm gonna check it out.

Somerset boat club is in Pitman Ck.