Cumberland Help 19-21 Aug

[HURRICANEBOB]

Hey seriously guys, thanks for the input. Above and beyond wrinkled, I'm getting rusty.

[peter]

Don't discount fishing a few feet from the bottom in 80' of water or whatever the depth is that day.. I was seeing them come up from where they were not visible on graph or maybe it just looked like that because they were moving horizontally close to the bottom. You might get lucky and find a good size school so have your crew trained and your stuff ready to drop down.

[HURRICANEBOB]

Don't discount fishing a few feet from the bottom in 80' of water or whatever the depth is that day.. I was seeing them come up from where they were not visible on graph or maybe it just looked like that because they were moving horizontally close to the bottom. You might get lucky and find a good size school so have your crew trained and your stuff ready to drop down.

Peter,

Thanks, will do. Alos rigging some line with Hopkins spoons so when I get the live bait down, I can try to jig up the first bite to turn the school on.
Sounds like a good plan, and will try. Again, thanks.

[HURRICANEBOB]

Thanks to Stripernut, and all who offered advice, had a pretty good trip. 2 folks I took along, new to Striper fishing, had a blast. We landed a couple short fish each day, using downpoles with shiners and fishing the jumps in the morning. Weather cooperated, save the hot Saturday that destroyed a livewell full of shiners for me. Probably my fault for not taking more precautions icing the water and all.

Seems like the key is to hit the lake early, in the dark, and fish till about 10 then call it quits and relax.

Only gripe about the trip was that trying to fish early evening was a matter of dodging thunder boats, Lake Battleships, jet skiers that think close means the first layer of paint, and the loss of my oldest and most trusted coffee thermos that dove to its death on my back deck. I think the thermos was trying to run from a jet ski trying to find a way into my livewell.

Again, Stripernut in particular, it was great talking with you, I enjoyed the phone calls on the lake and I appreciate all the good info that helped me take care of a few new folks that are now bonafide "ate up" with Striper fishing and Lake Cumeberland. 1 of the two has already started looking for a boat. Both saw their first ever Striper jumps and both caught their first ever Stripers. Short fish as they were, I could tell it was a highlight for them, and really a privelege for me to help them experience it. And I owe a lot of that to my friends here who helped make it happen.

Cheers! And Thanks.

[stripernut]

man i couldnt be happier....next time they will get the bigguns !

p.s. texted you a pic of missus stripernut with a good one today, same pattern we discussed.

[mhall]

Jumps in August, WTH...........................

[peter]

Big ones. Small fish on surface.

[stripernut]

babies on the surface. big mamas at 60 ft.

[HURRICANEBOB]

Jumps were in the AM. We went in the dark, and best stuff happened up to about 8am, then things got more sporadic and smaller up till 10 am, and shut down. Places ranged from the dam to Cemetery Point, and up into mouth of Beaver behind the island on the right.

Biggest was 22 inches, smallest was 18 inches. Hit Redfins in chrome and Blue, and Thompson spoons with the feather tail, and Rattle Traps Chrome and Black. They swatted at Chrome and Black Zora Spooks but missed, so I swapped to a Baby redfin Chrome and Black and hooked up.

August jumps........whhhhhooooooooddddddaaaaaaa thunk it. Expect downploes with shiners at 25 feet to get hit (atleast for us) about 10-15 minutes before the jumps crack open.

[Duayne]

Jumps have been fairily common the last few years around this time. The little fish are thinning out the baby bait on the surface. You're better off motoring on past and finding the deeper fish. They will sometimes make an appearence over on the North shore for 30 minutes or so after day light in the 30-40 ft range. Drug my buddy away from the surface stuff last year, set up with gizzards on the North bank and had four fish in less than fifteen minutes. None under 16 pounds. He was a little ticked things were over so fast. LOL Went and caught bass on top the rest of the morning.

[stripernut]

Jumps have been fairily common the last few years around this time. The little fish are thinning out the baby bait on the surface. You're better off motoring on past and finding the deeper fish. They will sometimes make an appearence over on the North shore for 30 minutes or so after day light in the 30-40 ft range. Drug my buddy away from the surface stuff last year, set up with gizzards on the North bank and had four fish in less than fifteen minutes. None under 16 pounds. He was a little ticked things were over so fast. LOL Went and caught bass on top the rest of the morning.

DUAYNE FOR PRESIDENT !!!!
i dont even slow down when driving past those surface fish ! i try to convince whoever is with me we are wasting precious fishing time throwing at short fish.....they look at you like you like a goat staring at a new fence.....until the first rod goes down at 60 feet and they wonder if it is going to break the rod !

[Duayne]

It is tough to pass them up if you don't know.. lol Hey, they are fun on light tackle. But they aren't gonna put a bruse on your belly like what is possible. Our smallest that day was 16 or so. Three were in the 20s. Bigger frisky baits when around big fish put big fish in the boat. Had boats around us using regular shiners and those bigger fish wouldn't touch them. It was very disheartening for those boats to get nothing while we finished in minutes with butes. I know cus I heard them. LOL