Striper Fishing

[misswired]

Had a hunch the bite would be on after the holiday boat traffic rocking the lake 5 consecutive days/nights. Launched the boat at 12am Monday morning and was done catching by 3am.

The collective weight is a few ounces shy of 48lbs.

Didn't see another boat the entire trip!

 

[Salty RI]

Nice I have caught a few stripers over 50 lbs, you said lake, were you fishing fresh water.

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[Narragansett]

Very nice! Those must be hybrid stripers? I fish stripers a lot in salt water, but this has been the worst year I have seen for numbers of fish

 

[misswired]

Yep, fresh water...... look-up Lewis Smith Lake striper stocking. I think it's mostly Gulf salt water strain with some Atlantic strain mixed in too.

The stripers do so well here the biologists annually shock up brood fish for their other stocking projects.

 

[misswired]

Very nice! Those must be hybrid stripers? I fish stripers a lot in salt water, but this has been the worst year I have seen for numbers of fish

No..... they are salt water striper. Think salt water fish migrating up fresh water rivers to spawn..... they can thrive in salt and fresh water. I guess they could be called hybrid though.

 

[ericrlarson]

Nice catch! Looks like your pup had a good time also.


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[Farmer17]

Lake Texoma on the Oklahoma border has some great guided striper fishing and there are lots of guides and I have always wanted to go but I can't get my buddies to go with me. The guys have already been once and they say they catch so many fish they get their limit pretty quickly and its actually a little boring. I told them I've been skunked so many times when I go fishing I would like that kind of boredom.

 

[italiansport]

We have a sizable population of Stripers here in Lake Pleasant in Arizona. If you enjoy fishing at night this is just the ticket!
Jim

 

[Skeet 028]

Nice fish. I fished the Chesapeake for many years...Even guided Lot of fun. Night fishing is great

 

[misswired]

Very nice! Those must be hybrid stripers? I fish stripers a lot in salt water, but this has been the worst year I have seen for numbers of fish

Stripers are Anadromous?? A little above my pay grade...

 

[Old Arkansawyer]

Lake Texoma on the Oklahoma border has some great guided striper fishing and there are lots of guides and I have always wanted to go but I can't get my buddies to go with me. The guys have already been once and they say they catch so many fish they get their limit pretty quickly and its actually a little boring. I told them I've been skunked so many times when I go fishing I would like that kind of boredom.

I fished for stripers several times when my older brother lived
on the lake. Crappie in the spring and stripers in the cool or
cold months. Used surf rods with about 30-40 lb test line.
Texoma is salty enough to support a great striper population.
As a side note, Dallas has the rights to several million
gal./day and won't use it as they would have to desalt
the water.

 

[Fishinfool]

Looks like a fun night on the water.

Back when I lived in CT., we used to go out at night on Long Island Sound, and fish for stripers off the old Remington Gun Club on the tide turn. We used live eels on big bobbers to keep them of the bottom. We often did well on stripers, and some times a school of blue fish would come thru.

Larry

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

I misread the title: Stripper Fishing!

Carry on,

Ivan

 

[shouldazagged]

Lots of stripers in Kentucky. The state record, taken in Lake Cumberland, weighed sixty pounds, eight ounces, as I recall.

 

[Texas Star]

Stripers are Anadromous?? A little above my pay grade...

Anadromous, I know. But Euryhaline was new to me. Good article.

I suppose that Bull sharks born at sea, which then come up freshwater rivers, would be Euryhaline. But some observers maintain that some are born in, say, Lake Nicaragua and then go to sea. That would be an anadromous population. But they wouldn't live most of their lives at sea, as some move freely between salt and fresh water all their lives.

The largest known was a female over 13 feet, caught in the Zambezi River in South Africa. Biologists present insisted that the angler release it back into the river.

This did not sit well with residents, who draw water from the river and even swim in it...

 

[misswired]

I misread the title: Stripper Fishing!

Carry on,

Ivan

Autocorrect keeps changing striper to stripper.... I've really had to proofread carefully. Can you imagine the words getting crossed up? I could be banned over a dang fishing post....ie: That big ole hefty striper had my pole bent double; about the time I thought the striper was gonna break me off, it wore down and I was finally able to net it

 

[ericrlarson]

Strippers in the lake? Lol it’s not uncommon for the lake I grew up around (Lake Ponchartrain).


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[joe44va]

Way back when, probably around 1985, I kept track of the number of Stripers I pulled out of the Delaware River, mostly just south of Lambertville and New Hope. 114.

 

[walkin jack]

Been striper fishing a few times on Lake Texoma and below the Denison Dam on the Red River Not my favorite fish on the table but they are a hoot to catch.

Congrats on a fine lookin' mess.

 

[Usmc5811]

My wife and I just went out on the bay in Maryland fishing yesterday for rockfish. I caught 2 and lost another. My wife caught 1. They weren’t nearly as large as the ops. A month or so I went with a buddy of mine on the James River right in the middle of Richmond. I don’t remember how many we caught but we both caught our limit of two. Here’s a pic from Richmond.