Headed to Cumberland

[markmac60]

Just got back yesterday from a Fri-Tues stay at Jamestown. Water temps anywhere from 71-68 degrees, depending on location. Marked fish but still pretty scattered. Fished exclusively with shiners on slow troll. Not much luck considering three full days of fishing. Saw jumps on the flats at the point just outside of the Jamestown no-wake zone first thing in the morning, between first light and sunrise. Also saw jumps in the mouth of Indian at about 10:30 a.m. ET. Wife got her first striper via casting Hopkins spoon into a jump. She's caught several stripers by never with the rod in hand when it gets hit. Made her weekend.

Minimal traffic due to cold forecast. Nice having the lake to yourself and fishermen. Most of the others are gone. Did see three misquitoes (wave runners) so their not all gone yet. Marina hours and services are now getting into the winter mode so call before, don't get caught assuming they are open with bait and/ or food.

[mhall]

Wow, sounds like it's really slowed down again......Hmmm

[HURRICANEBOB]

Wow, sounds like it's really slowed down again......Hmmm

No I'm drinking as much as I was before.....why?

[Rob1678]

I just wanted to give an update, though not very good. I launched at the dam Tuesday am at first light. Pulled live shiners at about 40' across the dam and down the walls towards Indian creek. I saw no jumps but did keep catching 5-6lb cats at 40'!!! The wife was having a good time reeling them in though. Went to mouth of Beaver and Otter and pulled there for several hours. No luck. Did see a pretty good size jump directly across the main lake from Beaver/Otter mouth. Pulled boards up and fired up the pontoon and went heading towards them at a whopping 8 mph. Needless to say they were down when we got there and pulled boards all up and down that side of the lake. Wed am, went and tried mouth of Beaver Otter again, ( where I had caught keeper fish 1 week earlier), and nothing. Went to the dam and pulled the dam and walls again from Indian mouth to the dam and in the main lake focusing on the river channel. Still no luck. Pulled the boards up, fed the stripers the remaining dozen shiners and headed north.
Wish I had more!!!
Rob

[kstonich]

Was out on the lake the 4th and 5th for my first striper trip, started trolling to the right out of Jamestown ,caught 3 small mouths trolling small homemade unbrella rigs, pullled out and heaqded towards the dam before I got to Beaver there was the first jump of the day, down before I could get in casting range . I still pulled out a Spook and chucked it for the heck of it. To my suprise got nailed by a 22" fish , let hime go casted again another about the same size. Let him go thinking this was going to be a great day looking for bigger fish. Wrong I searched and trolled all day with everything I had.As evening was approaching I figured I'd head back where I saw the first jump.Before I got to Beaver I saw a nice jump tried to approach slowly but they would go down before I would get in casting range and nothing was lingering around to get bit,so I changed my approach as mentioned in another post I just idled around until I saw a jump start and flew at them and coasted into the middle of them.Them jumps were comming up about every 5-8 minutes sometime I would have to go from one side of the lake to the other but what a blast ,caught 11 kept 2 kept at 24"-27". I even had a double, first cast out the spook, 2 twitches fish on,then grabed a hopkins spoon casted while the fish ran and a couple yanks fish on, that one went to the rod holder while I reeled in the first what a blast.
Spent the night at one of the cabins at Jamestown and went out the next morning same thing same area limited out by 730am, spen the rest of the day catching bass dropshotting of off of the main lake points, nothing to bui but plenty of fish in the 12"-16". Dragged a night crawler on a bobber behind me and caught severl nice channel cats in the 4-6lb range . Great day to be on the water.Sure makes up for the last trip where I got skunked

[missionFISHIN]

That's right, the stripers are jumping again. Last week there wasn't much action after the fronts came thru but after some stable weather, yesterday we were able to get into some good jumps again. We went out at 4:30 p.m. and got into 2 good jumps and about 2 or 3 small jumps hooking up with 5 and landing 2 of them. For some strange reason we kept having fish get off just before we could net them. Evidently they didn't like the looks of our boat or us but I know some days they just don't get buttoned up good enough. One thing that was different for us was where we caught them. Earlier in the day we noticed several striper boats between Wolf and Difficulty Creeks and even saw a small jump around 10 a.m. so that is why we went to that area in the evening. I have no idea how the jumps were in the usual areas, beaver/bug woods, but I would assume it happened there as well, maybe someone fishing in those areas yesterday will give a report. This is the farthest up the lake that we have seen any good jumps so if the lower end isn't good, you might want to give this area a try.

[HURRICANEBOB]

Wife and I are coming down 28 Oct thru about 1 Nov, out of Jamestown. Cold front will be interesting. I promise to let you all know what's going on while there. Apologize for the spelling in advance as working off the phone keypad will be tough with cold fingers. We're gonna focus on jumps, and I want to experiment with pulling Shad swimbaits under boards. Wish I was there this week with the temps being so cooperative.

But with a name like Hurricanebob, who would ever expect me to catch fish when the sun was out??????

[abssprint]

This will be my first year targeting stripers and I've just gotten my boat set up with the right rod holders, electronics, and etc. I've got at houseboat slipped Lees Ford so most of my fishing will be done in Fishing creek. I went out Saturday morning and ended up catching 6, all of which were keeper size. I went out again Sunday morning and caught 2 keepers in about a half hour before I had to head home..I'm sure all of this was beginners luck and probably won't catch another one all winter!! All fish were around 25ft deep and caught on shad on planer boards and down rods.. I hope this helps someone.. I'll try to post on here after every trip in order to help other rookies like myself.

[campinman]

Thanks for the report. Sounds like a fantastic trip.

[HURRICANEBOB]

[QUOTE=HURRICANEBOB;500863]Wife and I are coming down 28 Oct thru about 1 Nov, out of Jamestown. Cold front will be interesting. I promise to let you all know what's going on while there. Apologize for the spelling in advance as working off the phone keypad will be tough with cold fingers. We're gonna focus on jumps, and I want to experiment with pulling Shad swimbaits under boards. Wish I was there this week with the temps being so cooperative.

But with a name like Hurricanebob, who would ever expect me to catch fish when the sun was out??????[/QUOTE

WINDS HIGH. GULLS CHASING BAIT AND STRIPERS CHASING GULLS.7 CAUGHT TOP WATER.BLK/CHRM SPOONS -REDSKINS. ALL CAUGHT 4-7PM. ALL WOLF TO DIFFICULTY.

[HURRICANEBOB]

[quote=hurricanebob;501435]

wife and i are coming down 28 oct thru about 1 nov, out of jamestown. Cold front will be interesting. I promise to let you all know what's going on while there. Apologize for the spelling in advance as working off the phone keypad will be tough with cold fingers. We're gonna focus on jumps, and i want to experiment with pulling shad swimbaits under boards. Wish i was there this week with the temps being so cooperative.

But with a name like hurricanebob, who would ever expect me to catch fish when the sun was out??????[/quote

winds high. Gulls chasing bait and stripers chasing gulls.7 caught top water.blk/chrm spoons -redskins. All caught 4-7pm. All wolf to difficulty.

I COULD GIVE A CAP LESS WHERE I CATCH THEM. THE GPS COORDINATE
IS LESS IMP DEN DA HOOKSET

[HURRICANEBOB]

WINDS HIGH. GULLS CHASING BAIT AND STRIPERS CHASING GULLS.7 CAUGHT TOP WATER.BLK/CHRM SPOONS -REDSKINS. ALL CAUGHT 4-7PM. ALL WOLF TO DIFFICULTY.[/QUOTE]

Fished today only 3-7pm. No jumps seen wolfe to Otter creek. Two schoolies caught on redeye swim baits. One trolling and one casting swimbait to bank w slow retrieve. Apb is dead right. Stripers migrate.