cland 10 oct

[shakey head]

sounds like more of an evening bite?! was thinking of going sat. morning early... think they will still be around that area? i'll probably put in in beaver if there maybe a chance they will have a morning bite.... only caught them a few times and that was a couple years ago.... would like to find them again i was hooked after the first hit....

thanks you for your info!!! i may see ya down there sometime....

[JUSTINHALL]

You should be able to get them in the morning as well. They have been active in the morning then die down, again at 3-4, die down then just before dark and continue on. The morning bite though oddly has been hit or miss for some reason, they will be biting or not but they will start again if you don't get the early bite. Early bite has always been the most consistant but not so much recently at least in my experience.
I fish out of a Triton 220 center console with black T-top, Raymarine radar on top, if you see me out there say hello.

[shakey head]

cant find anyone to fish with tmrw so doubt i'm gonna make it to the lower end... would really like to get there in the morning though... guess i'll just stay close up fishing creek or pitman... had good luck up there a few years ago hope i can get it again... i'll be that way this week i hope! may try the first of next week

i'm sure i'll see you fishin some day down there... i'm in a white stratos 225 johnson

[HURRICANEBOB]

Last day was Friday, winds crazy high. Ran all over trying to find a place to fish out of the wind. Best schools of fish were in Harmony creek way back, and really massed up on Greasy back just in from the pump station.5 day Mon to Fri, fished no mornings, fished 11 to 8 or 9 each night.18 stripers, most short fish, no blanked days, and 10 first night out. Top water , down poles and free lines.

And did it all on just 7 beers and a pint of Makers.

[FlyLie]

Bob, thanks for the report. Sounds like the larger fish are still out in the main lake?

[shakey head]

got out there a lil late this morning... probably about 45 min later then i should have... no stripers for me no bust seen a some schools of fish on depth finderbut no shad/shiners to drop down... had fun throwing top water though wind killed me after a while, was alone so decided to come back in...got on the water at 7:45 and left about 1230 and one on buzzbait a bunch of blow ups one on shakey head crank bait and about a 3 lber on spinner bait was fighting wind so never really got a hook in him jumped of at the boat

[HURRICANEBOB]

Bob, thanks for the report. Sounds like the larger fish are still out in the main lake?

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.

[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