Emergency Regulations Lake Cumberland-Striper

[Jbyrd]

I've talked to several guides and they are still catching good size fish down deep.

I would think this "emergency" situation should be over soon with the cooling of the top thirty feet of water where there is and always has been plenty of Oxygen.

Here are the forcast lows for Jamestown today through the 15th.

51, 41, 52, 60, 65, 65, 65, 63, 60, 55, 52, 50

This is quite a bit cooler than last year.

Peter This is just proving what I think is adding to the problem they are still catching them. 90 percent of those fish are going to die, either by being filet or being released into the 86 degree water after fighting on the end of the line. Correct me if I am wrong Are you a guide on cumberland. If so on the average day how many undersized fish will you catch ,that you (by law) must release. (before the reg change)

[peter]

Peter This is just proving what I think is adding to the problem they are still catching them. 90 percent of those fish are going to die, either by being filet or being released into the 86 degree water after fighting on the end of the line. Correct me if I am wrong Are you a guide on cumberland. If so on the average day how many undersized fish will you catch ,that you (by law) must release. (before the reg change)

I just get down there when I can and have fun trying to figure it out. In the last month or longer the graph has been full of fish above 30' in areas, I mean tons. I put one line there three times over that period and caught 3 undersized fish. The third time I knew better but it looked so good I gave it a try... thought maybe this time some big fish were there.

The guides I talked to were catching pretty much only keepers way down deep. A lot of folks including myself have always stopped fishing after catching two keepers. Some don't but it always seemed like somewhat of an unwritten rule to me. But..that is just me and others can do as they wish.

[HURRICANEBOB]

Not to be morbid, but does anybody have any pics to post to show what the situation looks like?

[HURRICANEBOB]

Why the Striper bite is slow at Cumberland.

http://www.stripersonline.com/Pages/.../rock_63.shtml

http://www.stripersonline.com/Pages/...h/rock_5.shtml

http://www.stripersonline.com/Pages/...h/rock_6.shtml