stripers at night on Lake Cumberland

[gocats]

did you catch any eyes at Dale when you went?

[Duayne]

they ate the hooks off a redfin this morning the last hour before daylight.....shorts, shorts and more shorts. oh yeah i forgot to mention all the shorts we caught
2 buddies had 4 keepers the first hour after dark last night on thundersticks.

p.s. what the heck is up with these hooked fish swimming right in to the bank..... i mean slamming into the wall and rolling around right against the rock ? anybody else notice this? ive never seen this before ?

Saw it years ago when they were close to the bank. Had a monster run up onto the bank THEN out and around the boat. Had some smaller ones do it too that trip. Haven't seen it since.

[Mean Morone]

Many years ago my buddy hooked a big striper that headed for deep water then turned and smoked his drag straight for the bank. Just as we thought it was going to beach itself(or kill itself on a rock wall), it exploded on the surface. Coolest fight I've seen in a long time. That fish was in the upper teens.

[mhall]

Andrew hooked a monster one night and it headed right for the bank. We both got very excited and I turned my headlight on to find out it was a fully grown Beaver, lmao.

It was an epic battle and the Beaver won, LOL...

[apb]

Andrew hooked a monster one night and it headed right for the bank. We both got very excited and I turned my headlight on to find out it was a fully grown Beaver, lmao.

It was an epic battle and the Beaver won, LOL...

Stole one of my favorite homemade plugs from me too Forever known as the jointed beaver....

[stripernut]

had to wait until after midnight to start fishing as i already had a limit the morning of april 3rd....man i wish i could have started BEFORE midnight. it was ON when i got there !!! first cast on a smack tackle "gizz4" 30 incher, throwbacks every 4-5 casts and another big keeper for roughly 45 minutes....and then NOTHING ! fished for 2 more hours trying to catch a walleye and never got another hit from anything.

p.s. the shad didnt quit on the banks, if anything they got stronger as the night went on....but i wasnt after shad so.....

ps.s. again every fish that was hooked would make a run right down the bank and then slam right into the rocks and flop and splash like it was trying to get out of the lake......i helped em make that dream come true !

[pct]

I can't wait to get down there to fish!!! May 10th can not come soon enough...

[stripernut]

just got off the lake, tried to fish between storms....didnt work, got thoroughly soaked. 2 shorts and 1 keeper . alot of half-hearted bumps without getting hooked, very little shad activity. oh well its better than a trip to the dentist office

[Rob1678]

Gonna give it a try in the morning pulling live bait. I hope to do well or at least give it a whirl. Just got my boat back last night from a fresh rebuild and I already can't wait. Gonna put in for a vacation day and see what happens. I will let you know if anything happens. I am thinking a short fish might be seen...if I'm lucky!!!

[HURRICANEBOB]

Was at Cland late afternoon and evening 3 April and morning and evening 4 April. I want to thank Stripernut for all the advice and help. I took a friend who had never Striper fished before, a pay-laking kinda guy. Taught him how to cast a lure, and how to make a Redfin work. First night out, he caught his first ever Striper on a Redfin in a small jumps right at sunset. That happened mainly because Stripernut steered us to the right area. Also want to thank Skipper Jerry Morgan of Morgan Guide Service for showing my buddy how pros clean Stripers, and for allowing me to throw a cast net for shad at the light at his guide stand.

Tuesday night and Wednesday morning were great top water times. Don't bother using shiners because all we got freelining them was turtle and Gar bits. Wednesday night, halfway up creeks along clay and grave banks and at points we saw and fished small surface feeds. A silver and black Zora spook, for me was the ticket.

Wednesday just as it got dark, we headed to main lake to try the walls around Jamestown. 9 pm the clouds rolled in, and the wind came up. The wall on the right side coming out on main lake at Wolfe was fishably calm and blocked, but already had 3 boats on it so we moved on. The balance of the area around J-town for us was just unfishable as the winds got really whipping. Even on the clay banks around Elvis Tree leading to Governors cove, while there was little wind, the waves coming across the lake from Wolfe area were hitting the walls on the south side of Jamestown, and reverberating to rollers on the opposite side of the lake. With the constant wave action on the shoreline, just couldn't really hone in on shad activity.

Didn't catch anything over 26 inches. My buddy took 2 home for a good first time Striper meal along with some pictures of fish caught on topwater and freelined shad. We ended up with 9 total, and could have done a lot better if my beer light had not kept coming on. :-)

Funny side notes: Wierd places that ran out of things they never should.
a. Arby's in Russell Springs on Tuesday night had no roast beef......duh!
b. Bass Pro's at the BP in Jamestown had no shiners Tuesday.....(say what?)

Thanks again to Stripernut and Jerry Morgan for the assists. I don't get to Cland as much as before, and these guys, especially Stripernut, got me on fish.

[HURRICANEBOB]

ps.s. again every fish that was hooked would make a run right down the bank and then slam right into the rocks and flop and splash like it was trying to get out of the lake......i helped em make that dream come true !

HMMMM....got it. Stripers. Alias "Rock Fish". Now I know where that name came from.

I actually think the fish are just "funning for cover" as they feel threatened.

[stripernut]

THATS IT!! ROCKFISH!! it was right i front of me the whole time....

man it was good to see you guys and glad you had a good time.

sent you a pic of a pretty good one last night on redfin....this one headed for the rocks....on the other side of the lake!