Striper fishing during the upcoming cold front

[kyriver]

Fished Saturday. Looked around Friday afternoon all the way up greasy. All I saw was tons of very small bait balls at 40-50'.

Saturday I ran over a very large school on a point up the creek, turned around, shut the motor off and dropped a down rod to 50' and caught one while baiting the second rod. Thought to myself "Man I only need one rod" but that thought was proven incorrect in the next hour. Got the fish in and then could not find the school again. Tried this find and drop strategy again for about an hour and saw some schools but could not stay on them.

Resigned to pulling boards to improve the odds of catching fast moving fish. I was seeing the most fish where the channel is 60' deep. Caught another one with the sinker at 50'. I'm telling you those fish were moving (or at least that is my take on it.. 20 miles an hour maybe?). The second one came at a right angle to the boat across the back of the boat on the first rod of six across the back on a board that was close to the boat. . The rod was bent across the the other five. It was a nice 30 inch fish. I don't know why it looks 4' long in the photo. I was holding the fish bright right against my body.

I hadn't been fishing for a month and felt like the luckiest person on the planet.

A very nice end to what might be leading into cabin fever but quite a bit of motivation
to make some tweeks to the boat this winter.

Peter: Were you talking with fishermen in another boat while you were landing your second fish?

[peter]

Peter: Were you talking with fishermen in another boat while you were landing your second fish?

Yes. Was that you?
Two guys in like a 19' alum V hull. Maybe a Monarch.

You know probably went right by a couple other folks that posted here about last weekend.

[kyriver]

Yes. Was that you?
Two guys in like a 19' alum V hull. Maybe a Monarch.

You know probably went right by a couple other folks that posted here about last weekend.

Yea, that was me. I was the quiet one. My partner was the loud one. Nice meeting you and realizing it a week later. After we talked to you, we went farther up creek, (just around the next point) and caught 2 on down rods. Those fish were near bottom, but still in channel. We picked up our 4th fish on the way out, about midway in creek. We graphed fish in about 70 ft, so we dropped some lines straight down with a 3oz egg sinker. One hit it immediately and we were done.

We had a 32, 30, 24, 24. It was a good day. The first fish I caught ran through 5 other lines we had out. It took about 30 minutes to clean that mess up. That's why I was kind of laughing at you and your mess. I was glad to see that it happens to others.

The guy I was with will be back there this weekend. He and about 20 others go every Thanksgiving weekend. I'll be back as well, but this time I'll be after smallmouth.