cland 10 oct

[FlyLie]

I think you can hit the big guys back in the creeks, just go deeper for them.
It really seems like a spring pattern. You might want to try swim baits at dark cast on points and work deep with them. Might want to try at same points down poles with live bait close to the bottom. Mornings, running boards with little or no weight close to the banks might produce too.

I didn't do any of that, cause I wanted to get the wife on jumps where ever possible. But folks I talked to that shared what they were doing were satisfied with how it worked for them.

I think jumps can still be found in the back 3rd of the creeks, Harmony, Beaver, and Greasey. We found them there, but covered a lot of real estate bouncing around checking them out. Lots of shad up in Caney, near the back, and just under the power lines looked rip for jumps.

Sorry to be confusing, just seems like there's a lot of options, alot of things to try at a lot of places, and all produced some results.

Thinks Bob, good info....., Haven't had the boat out on LC since early spring (and I live in Jamestown). Been waiting and hoping the larger fish would start showing up. Anyway,. once this front moves through, thinking I'll hit the lake. Normally, I pull boards up in the creeks early in the AM , then move out toward the main lake by 9:00 am. Then by 12:00, me boat is back on the trailer. Never fished evening, so now I'm thinking I should give it some time. Thanks again for the report.

[HURRICANEBOB]

Thinks Bob, good info....., Haven't had the boat out on LC since early spring (and I live in Jamestown). Been waiting and hoping the larger fish would start showing up. Anyway,. once this front moves through, thinking I'll hit the lake. Normally, I pull boards up in the creeks early in the AM , then move out toward the main lake by 9:00 am. Then by 12:00, me boat is back on the trailer. Never fished evening, so now I'm thinking I should give it some time. Thanks again for the report.

We're all in this together!

[JUSTINHALL]

Morning bite was terrible this weekend, very few fish pulled in morning or even afternoon. However late afternoon was different about 4:00pm on Saturday they started biting and 5:30 on Sunday they started biting with jumps starting around 6:15 to 6:30 eastern both days. The morning jumps was almost nonexistent, just a few singles here and there was it, no big jumps, or at least where I was at anyways. Found them stacked up very heavy most of the way to the back of the creeks. Way more stripers and shad showing, then were biting, but they were feeding, just a lot of shad to compete with. If you are only 1 litle chunk of potato on a buffet it's hard to get picked some times.
Any body else do any good this weekend?

[campinman]

I fish out of Cumberland Point and found a lot of fish in Fall Creek, but they wouldn't bite. Had jumps straight across the lake and headed over there. Got on top of a pile of stripers but only landed one with three poles going at the same time. Seems that the jumps have been all just before dark. Could not get back on top of them, it was like they disappeared.

[shakey head]

great post justin! i am glad to hear that i'm not the only one that struggled sat. morning... and it wasn't just the way i fish... guess i'm gonna have to start fishing the evenings for a while to pull a few stripers... not really set up to pull boards or anything like that but i'll find someway to do it if its catching them... i seen one blow up but was a sm mouth about 16 in had fun catching that one

[campinman]

Just down rod'em shakey. If you get over a school like that it doesn't matter much on the presentation.

[HURRICANEBOB]

Campinman is on it! The good thing about the down rods is the density of baits you can offer in a more concentrated area right under your fish finder sensor.

I ran my down rods purposely shallow 15-25 feet. And when they went up in the jumps, as I headed the boat on the trolling motor toward them, I had the wife bring them up to 10-15 feet. Seemed like running shllower baits near the jumps took advantage of teh fish on the way coming in shallow.

[JUSTINHALL]

Shakey, I wasnt using planer boards just down rods. There are some days planers work better than downers and vise versa, right now down rods are working better. Throw a weight on it and drop her down where they are, put a couple in the depth they are, and a couple 8-10' above that. Sometimes they will come up to feed and hit the shallower ones and not touch the ones closest to them. Stripers are 99% of the time coming up to feed natural bait so you catch them on the way up. If you are in the jumps area like Hurricane said only have them 12-15 under the boat that's where you will get hit. If you do this, be forwarned all heck breaks loose when you got 8 rods with live bait out and you are in the jumps. As soon as you get one with casting on and hands are full, all 8 of your down rods will go down if you are by yourself!