Walleye/ Striper on cumberland last night?

[jonasseed]

Thinking of headin to cumberland tonight......anybody go last night???? does everyone think i would be wasting my time? We went tuesday night and whacked em.....I know the weather has changed but you think i wouold be wastin my time.......?

[fishincreek]

Water temp at the dam last nite(Friday) had dropped to 59. Was 62 in Indian. Very few shad up and heard ZERO stripers. Nabbed two small walleyes.

[hillbillyhunter3]

I fished the lake on Friday night from 11pm to 11 am the next morning. We didn't start seeing/hearing shad until around 2:00am(eastern). We only heard a very few stripers popping the shad, and had no bites. We threw slivers, redfins, long A, zara spooks, etc.
We caught some shad at night and tried trolling a little in the morning, and got nothing. Later in the morning we fanned out some lines on the clay banks, and got nothing but a ten lb. channel.
We saw a lot of other people fishing, but no one seemed to be doing any good.


We went and fished for trout behind the dam for a few hours on Saturday and caught some decent trout.

We went back to the lake on Saturday night and fished from 8:00pm to 2:00 am (eastern), and never heard any shad come up. We might not of stayed out long enough for the shad to come up, but we were dead tired.
We once again caught no striper or walleye, but only about an 8 lb channel cat. We hardly saw anyone on the water on Saturday night.

Did anyone do any good, and if so, what were you using?

[JoeB]

The fishing has been great until the full moon came into play. Give the moon a few days to dim and I expect the good bite will return.

[scragley]

Had some family members fish Friday and Sat. night.. Friday night, I believe they caught one walleye and two smallies.. The biggest Smallmouth being 4 1/2 pounds.. I think Sat. night only yielded one Large mouth.. Little to no shad and 4 blow ups total.. Doesn't sound to good right now.. I'm hoping for a moon change and some stable weather before I take the 3 and half hour drive down there..

[HURRICANEBOB]

I too went of Jamestown Friday night about 10 pm, and fished till 10 am, here's the detailed run down.

a. With the moon up, dark banks in the first couple turns of Wolfe held shad, but no Striper pops. Believe it or not, the only major shad raising a major ruccus and Striper popping I heard was on the fully moon lit banks. Go figure.
b. When the moon set right close to dawn, more pops were heard in the same areas that had been moon lit before, the banks that had been dark seem to get more shad up, but still no pops. Main lake walls from J-town to Lilly and Wolfe just seem dead to me from 10 pm till I gave them up around 1 am.
c. At dawn and for 1-2 hours there after, we found surface feeding Stripers in small groups, say 20-30 fish, chasing bait back into the small coves and slews in Wolfe. Ya know where the new Allegator 1/Cave Spring dock is? If you put the dock to your back, head out to the mouth of Wolfe, look to the right side no wake buoy, then see the bank and slew right behind the buoy. Check that area out at sun up. Follow that rock gravel bank down and half way down it there is a small cove, watch that for surface action. Then continue down the bank till it cuts to the right and heads up a deep slew. We saw shad getting hit at the surface there, single strikes or 2 or 3 pops as they chased schools of shad they had pinned at the surface, along both the right and left bank, as well as dead center the slew. Go deeper into the slew and right at the back of it, it breakes to a Y with 2 small covers on either side. Sit 30 feet back from that intersection, watch the two coves, and the point that seperates them. We saw a big 20-30 fish massed attack on shad that was pinned in that cove.
d. While in this area, I'd run a couple boards out off each side with no weights, and a couple down poles with shad down 10-12 feet. One of those might score as a school of shad flees up the slew running from the chasing Stripers.

I'd also think about check the first 2-3 turns in Lilly, for the same reasons. We go there late, but did see a couple blow ups. And I'm sure they were bass, cause these guys when they hit were throwing some serious geysers.

Redfins scored. Zora Spooks failed with a constant walk drawing too many short strikes. They will score if you walk 2-3 times then stop, count 2 to 3 seconds, then walk 2-3 more times, and repeat. If ya got one, try a Castiac Shad, Gizzard size and just slo roll it, I had some follows and some bumps, but no hook ups.

Make ya a deal, now that I spilled my guts on my spot. If ya see a burgundy pontoon with a smiley face like the avatar in this area, leave me a little room and I'll share it with ya.

[mhall]

I fished Friday night hard from about 1.00 till 10.00 next morning. I had two decent Walleyes, a 31 1/2 inch stripe and two short stripes. Lost another decent walleye and 2 more short stripes off the hook. Fished the Friday afternoon also till dark and had several bass and two real decent smallmouth. Saturday morning at 7.00 a.m caught a 4lb brown bass and a few shorties. Bite was slow, due to that dang moon and a pretty stiff breeze at times. All my fish came off of dark banks and especially one bank in particular. Hey fishincreek did I talk to you out on the lake??? I talked to a nice fella on a point for awhile as we passed each other that had his son in the back sleeping, was that you.

[fishincreek]

Wasn't me, but perhaps my buddy. He was in an alum boat with a 90 Merc. If it was he, you are correct-as nice a fella as you would ever meet(can't say that about myself!!).

[mhall]

Wasn't me, but perhaps my buddy. He was in an alum boat with a 90 Merc. If it was he, you are correct-as nice a fella as you would ever meet(can't say that about myself!!).

Hey that sounds like him and he said my friends are right over there and pointed towards the West wall heading out to the mouth of Indian. We were just across from Island Island on far bank. Ahhh, Andrew said you were alright sometimes, lol.

[apb]

.... Ahhh, Andrew said you were alright sometimes, lol.

Man, I really gotta stop drinking.....




Andrew